In the summer, Fulham's reinforcements continued their style, buying Berbatov at a low price, signing Wigan attacker Rodalega and Hamburg striker Petritsch for free, which well supplemented the vacancy after Andy Johnson left. Potebniak, a high-quality goalscorer on loan in the winter, has also joined promoted Maledin.

Fulham's personnel changes are large, especially the attacking line has almost changed again, such a team prospect is unpredictable, the media also used 'hard to guess' when reporting on Fulham, their game with Chelsea, the media is naturally optimistic about Chelsea, but Fulham's table is also worth looking forward to.

Last season, Fulham topped the London minor league table and it remains to be seen what Fulham can achieve under head coach Beba in the new season. However, they have performed well in the previous rounds of the league and are now ninth in the league ahead of Arsenal.

The pre-match media coverage of the west London derby still showed a lot of people looking forward to Fulham's performance.

Especially when they talked about Fulham's home win against Chelsea last season, that game, Fulham was quite good, they had the advantage at the beginning, caught Chelsea off guard, and later relied on solid defense to defend the goal, this tactic against strong teams is talked about by many people.

What will they do now?

A lot of people look forward to it.

In the midst of all the public opinion, the match between the two teams took place on the farm pitch, and for head coach Beba, the game was not a must-win because the opponent was Chelsea, albeit a derby. Such a thought is certainly not to be expressed, but it is actually true, no one will criticize Fulham if they lose, because Chelsea have been so strong in recent years, so the pressure on Beba against the derby is not very high, so the pressure on their players is not very high.

After the start of the game. They also played very openly.

After the start of the game, Fulham had a good appearance, and they and Chelsea were attacking and defending each other, and even had some advantage on the field.

Grant watched the game and had an idea in his heart, he glanced in the direction of the Fulham dugout, only to see that the opposing head coach Beba was watching the game carefully, and he could see that Beba looked a little nervous. Some expectations.

That's right, he's still using the same tactics he used against Chelsea last season.

Take advantage of the home advantage, come up and launch a big attack, let go of the opponent and kick, if they can score, they will immediately shrink the defense, and then use the defense to prevent the opponent from scoring, and so on to play. As long as they can succeed, then Fulham can at least hold on to a draw.

That's what Beba thinks.

Because he knows very well that he will play against Chelsea normally. Even at Fulham's home turf, they don't stand much of a chance – in fact, Fulham have not won at home for 27 years in their history, and home is not in their favour.

Ahead of the match between the two teams, Grant also took a hard look at Fulham.

While Fulham are not a strong team to take seriously, this game is unlike any other league. Fulham and Chelsea are bitter enemies in west London, and the feud between the two teams is not so strong and it is definitely not weak, so this game must be won.

I have studied my opponents carefully, and naturally I have also studied the games that I lost last season.

When Grant saw his opponent play against Chelsea so openly, he knew what his opponent was thinking. But the Israeli didn't do anything, he just sat calmly in the dugout and watched the game, as if he didn't know anything, but in fact, Grant had a lot of thoughts on his heart.

Playing against Chelsea?

In the second half of last season, the Chelsea team that was not in good form may be attacked by Fulham, but now his Chelsea team is currently in excellent form, and the team has such an outstanding player as Zhang Tiehan, and it will not necessarily be Fulham who will score first this time.

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Grant's idea is very simple, Fulham wants to attack, if they want to score, let the game go like this, and then see who scores first!

He was looking forward to it.

The two coaches in the coach's bench turned their minds respectively, it was the players on the field who executed the game, and the Fulham players knew the coach's tactical play, so they launched a big attack at the beginning, and the defense was slightly weaker, but they didn't care, what they wanted was to score first, as long as they achieved this goal, it was not too late to defend after that.

The Chelsea players, on the other hand, didn't think that much, they just continued to play as normal.

Zhang Tiehan was mentioned to the front court in this game, as a striker and Kalou partner, this is the team's first time, Drogba and Shepchenko are both on the bench.

This is the rotation employed by Grant.

After all, the team still has to participate in the Champions League group stage, as well as the next League Cup, proper rotation is very necessary, since the start of the game, Drogba has been a steady starting striker, now let him watch a game, it is time for others to try.

Zhang Tiehan was mentioned in the front court, and there was naturally an empty space in the back court.

Makelele came in.

Makelele is a little older, but he is in very good shape, if it is not for the lack of place in the team, he can compete with Lampard for the starter, in fact, in the eyes of the media, Makelele's role is greater than Lampard, because Makelele's defense is more stable, and his skills are better than Lampard, Lampard is better at straight football, with Makelele, Chelsea's attacking skills will improve a lot.

It's a pity that Frank Lampard is the icon of Chelsea, and Grant can't let Makelele replace Lampard, not to mention, Lampard has been in excellent form in the opening few rounds, and his goals can even be compared to Zhang Tiehan.

That's what Chelsea do up front.

This kind of front court and Fulham seem quite powerful, but Fulham played 'lethal' football, and Chelsea started a little passively, but did not find a chance within ten minutes, and as soon as the time passed, Chelsea slowly regained their strength.

Fulham are still looking for goalscoring opportunities and they are not aware of the crisis.

But by the time they realized it, it was too late.

It was Chelsea's attack in the opening fifteen minutes, with Frank Lampard setting up on the flank, linking up with Wright-Phillips, who had started the game, to play the ball to the left side of the box, before Lampard came under pressure and fed Claude Makelele, who stabbed the ball straight to the right of the box.

With two feet, the ball moves from the left side of the box to the right.

Fulham's defense was a little overwhelmed, they reacted a little slower, but Kalou on the right side found an opportunity and hung straight to the back of the goal, the Fulham goalkeeper reacted quickly, he saved the ball, but Zhang Tiehan, who saw the opportunity, took advantage of the opportunity to find the football landing point for the first time, he shook off the defender and went straight to the landing point, at this time all he needed to do was to send the ball into the empty goal.

The goal made it 1-0 and gave Chelsea the lead.

Zhang Tiehan smiled after scoring a goal, in fact, he likes this kind of ball very much, he feels that the magic skill of 'seeing through' is specially designed for this, and the effect of using it in the supplementary shot is excellent, he can always know the landing point quickly, know the landing point first, and suddenly start to be one step faster than the defender.

If he doesn't see through it, he will have to be slower to judge the landing point, and the reaction speed of the opposing defender will not be much slower than him, and it will be difficult for him to start and throw off the opponent.

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After Zhang Tiehan scored a goal for the team, Chelsea's shape was much better.

With a goal, they have an advantage ahead of their opponents, and they play without pressure and play more openly, while the Fulham players are a little depressed, according to Coach Beba's script, the game should not be played like this.

Their script is that they score first, then the whole team drops back to defend, and now that the opponent has scored, they don't know what to do.

Some of the players looked at the dugout.

Beba was sitting there, his face was a little gloomy, obviously caught off guard by Zhang Tiehan's goal, he didn't expect Chelsea to score so quickly, and his team attacked for a long time, not to mention that the backfield defense was also penetrated by the opponent.

This game is not easy to play!

For a while, Beba didn't know how to do it, whether to let the team continue to attack and strive to score an equalizer, or choose to retreat to defense?

There is a chance to choose to attack.

Choosing to defend will be much more passive, and it is not easy to score goals on the counter-attack, so Beba doesn't know how to do it well.

While he was still thinking, Chelsea had already taken the opportunity to score again, this goal was only three minutes away from Zhang Tiehan's goal, which was completed by Makelele, and his cold shot from outside the box scored the second goal for Chelsea, and the score instantly became 0:2, and Chelsea led by two goals.

That's when Beba finally knew what to do.

Defend! Step up your defense!

Giving Chelsea a two-goal lead, no team dares to say that there is still a chance to equalize, this is almost the law of the Premier League, although now that Chelsea have changed managers, the Portuguese who pursues utilitarian football and 'does whatever it takes' to win, but Chelsea's strength is there, at least his team is not capable of challenging Chelsea.

Choose to defend, although the chances of winning are smaller, but at least they won't lose too badly!

It's a derby!

If he loses to 5:0 and 6:0 in the derby, it is estimated that his position will be shaken, and Fulham fans will definitely be extremely dissatisfied with him, and looking at Chelsea's current state, it is still very possible to continue to attack, so thinking about it, Beba hurriedly walked to the sidelines to let the team retreat to defense.

Fulham were high-spirited in the opening game, and less than twenty minutes later, they were passively opting to defend.

Both extremes, they show.

It was the same in last season's game, but in the end they were the winners, and they still are, but even the Fulham fans in the stadium knew that they were probably going to be the losers. (To be continued......)