Chapter 150: The Scapegoat
Zhang Tiehan's progress day by day, even the Roma teammates can see it, they are surprised by Zhang Tiehan's progress, sometimes Zhang Tiehan in training, occasionally outstanding performance, Totti is surprised.
It's not a goal or anything.
In terms of shooting, whether it is a long-range shot or a header, all players in Roma have to bow down, to Totti's surprise, Zhang Tiehan's performance in tactical training, such as in terms of running, Zhang Tiehan's running position is still a little chaotic, but when the offensive speed is fast, when he is running fast, he even runs directly to the gap like he has eyes behind his back, and that gap no one realized before, it is just a gap left by the defenders when they quickly retreat and run.
For another example, in terms of dribbling and receiving the ball, Zhang Tiehan can always dodge sneak attacks from behind, and it is not easy for any player to grab the ball behind him.
At first, everyone didn't notice it, but they kept training together, and after a few times in a row, everyone realized it.
"He's really talented!" In training, Totti lamented.
In terms of football tactics, technology, etc., talent is not every professional player has, many players have been training tactically since childhood, and when they reach their twenties, it is difficult to keep up with the pace of the top league, their skills may be good, but because the tactical aspect can not keep up, they can only play in the lower leagues, after all, in modern football, tactical ability and individual ability are equally important.
As for Zhang Tiehan, his tactical ability is not strong, but his progress is very obvious.
Totti, Cassano and other teammates attributed this to Zhang Tiehan's talent, but also to his origin, thinking that he is a player trained by Manchester United's academy, he naturally has a certain foundation and ability in tactical literacy.
Even in Italy, there are not many clubs that have academies that dare to say that they can go to the Manchester United academy.
Zhang Tiehan didn't know what his teammates were thinking. If he knew, he would have smiled bitterly, when he left the Manchester United Academy, how could he have any tactical ability...... It should be said that at that time he was blank in this area, he came out of the Manchester United Academy, but in the Manchester United youth team. He has always been just a defender-focused midfielder, and Manchester United's football defense is not as complex as Italy's, even if he is a better player in Manchester United's youth team, it may take a long time to adapt to coming to Roma.
His progress comes from new supernatural secret techniques.
Control!
That's the reason for his rapid progress, with control, he can clearly know the position of his teammates and opponents, and he doesn't have to look around at all to know it, so that he needs to pay attention to less than others, and he can focus on running. Naturally, progress is very noticeable.
It's like a person who learns to use two hearts and three purposes, it takes talent and hard work, and some people can't learn it at all, but if they just use one heart and one purpose...... It's so simple.
If he doesn't improve significantly, then it's better to leave professional football quickly!
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Drinel is pleased with Zhang's progress.
When he found out that Zhang Tiehan's tactical literacy was very poor, he was a little disappointed, after all, it was difficult to make rapid progress in this area, but he didn't expect Zhang Tiehan to be a beautiful jade. All he needed to do was take the jade and carve it again.
It's so simple.
However, it also takes time to polish the jade.
For the time being, Rome did not have much time, on the third day of Drinel's tenure. All Roma players flew to Madrid, Spain, for the second match of the Champions League group stage, where Roma will travel to Real Madrid.
Under the new manager Drinel, the Roma players played tenaciously.
It was only at the Bernabeu that Real Madrid played more tenacious, losing to Bayer Leverkusen by three goals in Germany in the first round of the group stage. This home game is very important for Real Madrid, they have to win against Roma or the group will be very disadvantageous.
In the end, Real Madrid beat Roma 4-3.
Zhang Tiehan came off the bench and started with a combination of Cassano and Montella, but in the 63rd minute. Drinel still gave Zhang Tiehan playing time, this was Zhang Tiehan's first appearance in European competitions, but it was a pity that Real Madrid fully retreated to defend with a two-goal lead, and did not give Roma a chance at all, and Zhang Tiehan was also lost under the blockade of Real Madrid's stars, and it was only in the final stage of the game that Montella scored a goal, but it was too late.
Roma once again folded their wings in the group stage of the Champions League, and after two rounds, Roma lost all two games and ranked at the bottom of the group.
This is just the first game of the war.
Back in Serie A, Roma immediately went into the battle against Bologna.
After 90 minutes of play, Roma and Bologna drew 3:3, Zhang Tiehan scored the second goal, and Totti won the best player of the game with two goals in both halves.
In this game, Roma felt that they played very well, but in the end they still did not win, which also embarrassed Drinel, who had just taken office, and had one loss and one draw in two games, which was not very good.
Roma fans were very disappointed.
At the same time, the Roma media are also disappointed, they continue to report and point out the team's problems, such as the midfielders are too immature, frequent mistakes, such as the tactical routine is too simple, so that they can't break through the opponent's defense, and then like Zhang Tiehan, in addition to scoring goals, his appearance is very ordinary, and so on.
The first two are all right in what the media says, but the third is a bit far-fetched.
Except for scoring goals, Zhang Tiehan's other appearances are average...... Is this human speech? When Drinel heard a reporter talk about Zhang Tiehan's evaluation, he burst out laughing directly and shook his head with a wry smile, "I don't think there is anything wrong with Zhang's appearance, and he works hard in training, I can see his progress every day, he will be the pillar of Roma's future frontcourt." ”
That's a pretty high rating.
However, the Italian media is dismissive of this, Zhang Tiehan is a goal, but it is just a goal, the reason why they say that is because Zhang Tiehan has nothing to show at all outside of the goal, and when the team attacks, he has a very limited number of touches, and as a high school striker, he has not been able to play much tactical role.
So then many Roman media began to analyze Zhang Tiehan, and finally came to the conclusion that Zhang Tiehan failed to integrate into the team at all, and was 'isolated' very strictly in the game. It's simply a matter of his own position and consciousness.
In Italian football, players who don't have movement and awareness can't be mixed up at all.
Absolutely.
Therefore, whenever Zhang Tiehan encounters a strong team, he will show that he is not good, and when he encounters a weak team, he has the opportunity to score.
That's what the Roman press says.
Roma naturally dismisses this, but Roma fans believe some, more than that. The media needs to find the reason for Roma's poor appearance, everyone knows that Roma has a lot of problems, but recently, the Roma dressing room has not revealed any contradictions, even Cassano, who has always been troublesome, is very 'well-behaved', and Roma is very supportive of Drinel, and the spirit of Rome's game is also good.
But the table is not good!
What's going on?
There is always a reason for everything, so they analyzed the reason. The reason, naturally, can't be attributed to the Roman prince Totti, Cassano is not 'naughty', and it won't be the reason, such as Montella, Del Vecchio, Mancini, etc. are all old men of the team, and Zhang Tiehan is just a newcomer, and his worth is okay, and he is in the game. The weakness is also very obvious, and he can be a scapegoat.
Zhang Tiehan is training hard. Naturally, I know that in recent times, the Roman media has reported on itself.
He was annoyed!
In fact, his tactical skills have been improving, and he has been working more closely with his team-mates in recent games, passing and receiving the ball more often in attack, and scoring in the league starts. Such an expression should not be belittled, even if it is not praised.
But that's what happened.
He had to lament that Roma was such a complicated team, and at the same time wrote down the names of these media outlets, as well as the names of the journalists who reported on him.
Oh yes!
Lao Tzu can score goals, and you also speak ill of Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu has written it down!
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The Roman media naturally didn't know that they had provoked Zhang Tiehan, but in fact, they didn't care at all, they just wanted to make an excuse for Rome's poor results.
But in any case, Roma did not have a good result.
Zhang Tiehan was very annoyed at the same time, in fact, there was not much pressure, he could feel his progress, a little bit of progress every day was visible to the naked eye, this feeling was really wonderful, he was full of motivation to train, and he worked harder than before, but at the same time he also felt a lot more relaxed, because fitness training can be temporarily stopped.
His body was strong enough that he didn't need any fitness at all, but he should lose ...... Zhang Tiehan thinks so, whenever he takes off his shirt and sees the muscles all over his body, he can think of those muscular and brain-hungry fools on TV, which always reminds him of some comments that many people have seen him for the first time.
"I'm not stupid." Zhang Tiehan gritted his teeth hatefully, "I am a smart person, a Sven person, and one of the top ten young people in the world with brains!" ”
Unlike Zhang Tiehan's cheerfulness, the pressure on head coach Drinel is very high.
Two games, one loss, one draw, such a result is really unattainable, although he has just taken over the team, the club, fans and the media trust him, and he did not implicate him in the loss, but if it continues like this, it is estimated that his end will be the same as Worrall, that is, he is gone.
Becoming Roma manager is a leap forward for Drinel.
Although he has been in the coaching industry for many years, he has previously worked in small clubs, and Chievo is already a good team, and it is the first time to coach a big club like Roma, and Drinel is still very happy to be the manager of Roma.
If Roma's results can be stabilized, Drinel will have a firm foothold in the top league, and it is even possible to coach world giants such as Inter Milan and AC Milan in the future.
If he doesn't do it well, the opportunity will naturally be gone.
He has to do it well.
If you want to do well, you have to lead Rome through it temporarily, and getting through it is nothing more than results. One or two victories are nothing, and the key is to maintain a steady score in a row...... But it's not without chance.
Drinel has his eyes on the league in a week's time, which will be the highlight of all of Italy and even all of Europe.
Lazio vs Roma. (To be continued......)