After the game, Zhang Tiehan and Frank Lampard became the protagonists of media reports, the two were the best people in the game, Zhang Tiehan scored for the first time for Chelsea in the game, and scored two goals, was the best player of the game, and Frank Lampard scored the third goal in two games, maintaining his own goal efficiency at Chelsea, and the three goals also put Lampard in the league top scorer.

The reports about the duo are nothing unusual, mostly complimentary, and then look at the results of Chelsea this season under the duo's leadership.

Another player has also been the subject of the story: Andriy Shevchenko, who has just joined Chelsea.

This is the first public interview since Shepchenko joined Chelsea. In the past match against Middlesbrough, Schupchenko's performance was not very good, and he was replaced by Robben in the middle of the game, which was also his first appearance for Chelsea.

However, in his post-match interview, Shepchenko expressed optimism.

Looking ahead to the upcoming new season, the Ukrainian said he was ready to adapt to English football.

After seven years in Serie A, Shepchenko believes that adapting to a new league does not worry him: "In Italy, the team is more defensive, English football is more open than in Italy, and I believe that technically speaking, I don't need to change myself too much in the Premier League. ”

Shepchenko believes that the biggest challenge is in his personal life, "I need to make adjustments to learn English and try to fit into the team".

At the end of the two games, Chelsea have won two big games, and although they still haven't surpassed Manchester United to top the league because of goal difference, Shepchenko is still excited, "Brilliant player. Great team. "I feel like there's a lot of cohesion in this team. ”

At AC Milan, Sheva has already won Serie A and Champions League titles and will be hoping to repeat that glory at Chelsea. The Ukrainian said: "Chelsea have already won the Premier League and I hope to help the team win the Champions League trophy. ”

Due to the poor schedule of this match, Shepchenko said a lot about adapting to the new league.

"Obviously. Football in England is much more open than in Italy. In Italy, the team is more defensive, the defensive system is tight, but I believe that technically speaking, I don't need to change myself too much in the Premier League. ”

"Football is football, both in Italy and in England, and my biggest challenge is personally, learning English. Trying to fit in, but at this level, the big names at Chelsea are not too different from the big names at AC Milan and as a player I personally have to make very little adjustments. ”

Others were also interviewed after the game about Shepchenko's questions.

The most significant thing is Grant's statement, on how to use Shepchenko, Grant said: "A lot of people question the style of play that Chelsea are about to use. Shevchenko came here to compete with Drogba or Kalaw for a place. Or play with them? I think it's possible that whether we play 433 or 442 or even 451, we can adapt very quickly. ”

"Shevchenko is a top player, Ballack is too, I think they can adapt to different formations. In some competitions. You'll see him coming out with another striker and playing 442 and in other games we're going to use 433 because most people are used to that. I believe Shevchenko can adapt well to both formations. ”

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The topic of Shepchenko is limited to this. Within the Chelsea team, Shepchenko was only welcomed, and it was difficult for him to be the focus of the team because his English was not good and it was a bit difficult to communicate with his team-mates.

So Zhang Tiehan naturally became Shepchenko's friend.

Zhang Tiehan still feels a little proud, of course this is not in football, compared to these teammates, he is also a 'cultured' person, English, Italian, German, plus Chinese, he speaks all four languages well, although Italian is a little worse, but it is enough to communicate, after all, he has been in Rome for a year.

Many times he became Shepchenko's translator.

Shepchenko also likes to talk to him, one is that the two have been 'friends' for a long time, when Zhang Tiehan was in Rome, the two spoke, and they are both high-value stars, and they can talk to each other a lot, and the other is that there are not many people in the team who can speak Italian, Russian...... Not to mention, Zhang Tiehan also doesn't speak Russian, in short, Zhang Tiehan is one of the few people who can communicate with Shepchenko normally.

As the league progresses, everyone's talk is still in the game.

After training, everyone is discussing the issue of bonuses, and Abramovich's approach strategy makes everyone very excited, even if they are all big-name stars, and each salary contract has tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of pounds per week, but the bonus of hundreds of thousands of pounds per game is still very attractive, which means that if their league can continue to win, everyone's income will double, and some low-paid players will even triple.

With that in mind, Chelsea head into the third round of the league on 24 August.

Chelsea are playing away from home, they take on the home team Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park, and there were a few bad news for Chelsea before the game - Robben is injured, Joe Cole is injured, and the injuries to the two wing-backs have forced Grant to choose to use a strange 442 formation to deal with the game, this 442 formation is strange without wing-backs, and midfielders Ballack, Makelele, Lampard, Essien all appeared, Zhang Tiehan, Shepchenko also started.

In the end, Chelsea scored two goals against Blackburn.

It was a revenge game as Chelsea suffered a 1-0 defeat at Ewood Park last season.

Chelsea's formation is a bit odd.

The absence of full-backs was enough, with Frank Lampard, Claude Makellele, Ballack and Essien all coming on at the same time, which made the Chelsea midfield look very chaotic.

Thankfully, we won.

Speaking after the game, the media described Grant's Chelsea as 'an attacking system that hasn't figured it out yet'.

This was a game in which Grant played a real formation, and after 90 minutes of testing, Grant and everyone else were still in the fog.

Makelle does what scavengers do, and that's not a problem; And Essien up and down, almost all of Chelsea's offensive is connected; What about the rest of Ballack and Frank Lampard? Both cores did contribute, with the former creating good free-kick opportunities; The latter scored a penalty.

But that's all.

Tactical realism didn't work, and if the midfield was orderly, it would still be a matter for Grant to play the game.

In a midfield where Ballack and Frank Lampard should have been closely linked, Blackburn's Savic and Reid found too many gaps that were large enough for them to comfortably feed the ball to other attacking team-mates. Essien, who was busy filling these gaps, forgot his role as a defensive midfielder, and while the Ghanaians were bouncing around the opposition penalty area, the 33-year-old Makelele had to take on the side of the player, relying on small movements of pulling and pulling, barely dealing with the Blackburn players.

On the front line, the division of labor between Zhang Tiehan and Shepchenko is also not clear.

Zhang Tiehan kept pushing forward and retreating, looking for opportunities back and forth, and his appearance was not bad, scoring a goal; Shepchenko still didn't score, he didn't know what he was doing all the time, and the two did not have a clear tactical division of labor, and the result was that the position and tactics were confused.

Shepchenko's table is still very poor.

In addition to a shot from the opposition centre-back, Shepchenko was most memorable for being knocked over by Blackburn defenders on several occasions.

Of course, the uselessness of his and Kalaw's work is really not his responsibility.

The Sun commented: "If the likes of Ballack, Frank Lampard and Essien have not even straightened out who will answer, who will pass the ball and who will protect, why expect Chelsea to change the way they score? ”

But here's Grant's troubles.

The team is full of stars in the front, middle and back, and the two full-backs are injured, so he has to use this formation to play, but the ability and position of the midfielders are too repetitive, the personal ability of Zhang Tiehan in the front court is too strong, and Shepchenko has not fully adapted to the Premier League, so there is no tactic at all in such a formation.

How to fight exactly? Even Grant was troubled.

He was confused and didn't know what to do.

But no matter what, Grant must sort it out, otherwise the next game against Liverpool will be the beginning of Chelsea's defeat, and the media believe that this game will be an important game to test Chelsea in the new season, Liverpool are one of the top four in the Premier League, the Champions League winner for two consecutive seasons, and Chelsea's old rivals, they are enough to test Chelsea.

Until then, Grant will have to revamp his team's tactics or the game will be a bad one for Chelsea.

Exactly how to do it depends on Grant's idea.

Everyone is eyeing Grant, this will be the biggest test for Grant to coach Chelsea, after the past he coached this season is not a problem, failure, Grant is likely to not even get through the season before leaving.

This is clear to everyone.

Before that, the media's eyes were back on European competitions, and on the third day after the game against Blackburn, the draw for this season's Champions League group was held, and all the strong teams participating in the Champions League from all over Europe went to participate in the draw.

Chelsea went quite a few people.

Managers Grant, Shepchenko, Zhang Tiehan, Frank Lampard, Terry, they are all nominated for the top three in various awards, of which Zhang Tiehan will almost certainly be the best striker, because Liverpool won the Champions League last season, Zhang Tiehan also scored the most goals, Shepchenko is a foil, Lampard and Terry will compete for the best midfielder and best defender awards.

But they don't stand much of a chance.

After all, Chelsea were eliminated by Barcelona in the round of 16, and there was no chance of continuing to move forward. (To be continued......)