"Good morning, Mr. Pan Yi." When Pan Yi arrived at the Cobham training base, the security guard on duty at the door greeted him warmly and opened the door.
If when Pan Yi first came to Chelsea to coach, some people still had concerns about his prospects, now everyone at Chelsea Club is full of admiration for him.
After all, the Premier League championship and the Champions League final are real achievements, not to mention the bunch of broken records.
Many staff who work at the club are Chelsea fans themselves. Of course they are happy from the bottom of their hearts when they see the team playing so well, and they are also grateful to Pan Yi for bringing all this.
Even if you are not a Chelsea fan, even if it is just a job,
"Company performance" is booming, and employees will have a good life. Whether you are a security guard, a chef, a locker room administrator, a court maintenance worker, an accountant...if the team's performance is not good and revenue is affected, you may encounter a salary cut or even dismissal.
For example, in 2020, when everyone was having a hard time, in order to save team costs, Arsenal fired Jerry Quin, the mascot actor who had worked for the club for 27 years.
By getting rid of this team mascot that has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Arsenal can only save 25,000 pounds per year, which is equivalent to 2,000 pounds per month... For a wealthy club that once stood at the top of the Premier League, it is actually In order to get that little money, we have to kick the old guy away, so what is impossible to happen?
And if something worse happens to the team, such as falling out of the Champions League or being relegated, the staff will really be in danger.
After all, as the team's income drops and the team's competition level drops, many standards will drop accordingly, and many positions will become dispensable, or there will be no need for so many people.
By then, layoffs will be inevitable. Therefore, for the security guards at the Cobham training base, Pan Yi in front of them is simply the savior of the team. How could they be disrespectful?
"Good morning, Mr. Victor. Has your puppy been found?" Pan Yi also said hello to the security guard before walking into the gate of the base.
After working here for nearly a year, Pan Yi is also very familiar with every staff member. He can call every staff member by name, chat with everyone, and even remember some trivial things about the other person's home.
Because of this, people here are more willing to regard Pan Yi as a family member and are more willing to share their joys, sorrows, and joys with him.
"Haha, don't mention it, it was actually hiding in the neighbor's garage, and was later discovered by Lucy." The security guard Victor said with a smile, and then reminded,
"By the way, Mr. Abu has arrived very early and should be waiting for you in the office now."
"Okay, thank you." Pan Yi thanked him, but he couldn't help but groan in his heart that the boss came so quickly.
Of course the two of them made an appointment to meet this morning, and Abu said he had something to talk to him about. So Pan Yi also arrived at the base early, and it's not even time for formal training yet!
But since the boss is here now, he should hurry up. So Pan Yi went straight to the training building after entering the door.
As soon as he got closer, he heard the familiar sound of kicking a ball from the direction of the training ground. This immediately made Pan Yi slow down his hurried pace, especially when he walked to the training building and simply stopped to watch.
A small player is practicing shooting. Judging from the scattered balls in the half, he should have been here for a while.
Taking a closer look, this person is none other than the scoring champion who just won the Premier League Player of the Year award, Hazard!
"Hey, this kid has really become more self-disciplined." Pan Yi was secretly pleased. This is really nothing like Azar in his previous life!
I actually came to practice so early.
"Bang!"
"Bang!" With a muffled sound, the balls flew towards the goal one by one. Some hit the target directly into the blind spot, while others missed the target or fired anti-aircraft guns.
Pan Yi looked at Hazard from a distance and suddenly understood why he wanted to practice extra. In fact, since he officially joined the Blues in June 2012 as Chelsea's champion that season, Hazard has quickly become the darling of Stamford Bridge.
And he also repaid the fans' love with his excellent performance, scoring 12 goals that season.
In the next season, he scored 17 goals and provided 7 assists. As a result, he won the Chelsea Player of the Season award and the Premier League Young Player of the Year award.
This season, Hazard has also performed well, and the Premier League Player of the Season award is the best proof.
However, he became the Premier League assists leader, but he scored fewer goals this season. 8 league goals, 4 Champions League goals, a total of 12 goals, which is less than last season.
On the one hand, this is because Chelsea's offensive firepower is very strong this season, and the firepower is also very scattered; apart from anything else, substitute center Bamford alone has scored 15 goals in various competitions!
On the other hand, Hazard is more responsible for the hot spots on the wing in Chelsea's offensive system. He is responsible for attracting the opponent's players and then moving them, or passing them directly into the penalty area for teammates to shoot.
This is why Hazard leads the Premier League in assists. But now Hazard is not satisfied with this.
He knew in his heart that, in addition to the above two reasons, there was another reason for his low number of goals, which was that he was indeed lacking in shooting skills.
From the perspective of an ordinary player, if he can score more than a dozen goals and add more than 20 assists in all competitions in a season, such results are really amazing.
But as a man determined to compete for the Ballon d'Or, this is not enough. In 2012, Messi completed the feat of 91 goals in 69 games!
This also includes 24 assists. Of course, Messi has performed superbly this season. It may be difficult for even him to replicate such a miracle. It seems that it cannot be used as a standard.
And if he is relatively
In the "ordinary" last season, that is, the 2013-2014 season, Messi represented Barcelona in 46 appearances in various official games, scoring 41 goals and providing 14 assists.
During the same period, Cristiano Ronaldo represented Real Madrid in 30 appearances in La Liga and scored 31 goals; in the Champions League, he played 11 times and scored 17 goals; in the Copa del Rey, he played 6 times and scored 3 goals.
If measured by this coordinate, Hazard is indeed still far behind. The main difference here is in scoring efficiency.
Although the joke of "Being like Messi and shooting like Heskey" is a bit too much when it comes to Hazard, it actually makes some sense.
That is, his speed and dribbling are really among the best in the world, but in many cases, they just fall short.
On the court, it is actually very difficult to continuously pass people and then shoot, because your physical fitness may not be able to keep up in a short period of time.
In some cases, due to insufficient decision-making ability, the shots are not decisive enough, and they often hesitate in front of the goal and miss opportunities.
Of course, sometimes it is because of insufficient shooting ability. This is why there are people like Adama Traore, Saint-Maximin, and Gervinho in the world.
"Death through passing"... If they could successfully shoot and score goals after passing through, then these players would all be as good as Messi, but unfortunately they are not.
What makes Hazard even more uncomfortable is that he failed to score in the later rounds of the Premier League.
Especially in the two games against Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-finals, no success was achieved. Although Chelsea still won the game relatively easily and advanced to the final, it is a bit unacceptable for the goalkeeper who now has high demands on himself.
Even on some fan forums, some people have questioned whether Hazard's current role is not as good as Gnabry, or even worse than Lingard.
Could Chelsea consider changing their main winger? Especially when facing the powerful Barcelona in the final.
This also makes Azar unable to swallow this breath! Therefore, he has been practicing shooting recently, just to improve his
Make up for the "shortcomings"! For Pan Yi, Hazard's status in his mind has certainly not changed at all.
Gnabry and Lingard are indeed very good, but to say they are better than the current Hazard is absolutely nonsense.
Just because they scored goals or assisted in some games but Hazard did not, we cannot say that they are better than Hazard.
And even if you calculate the data in Excel, Hazard's total goals and assists are far higher than theirs. This argument is even more untenable.
As a professional football coach, Pan Yi certainly sees more than that. Sometimes, the role of a football player cannot be reflected in excel.
Hazard has done a lot at Chelsea to create opportunities and stretch space for others. If he hadn't been attracting double-teams from the wing, how could other teammates have such comfortable shooting opportunities?
Lukaku won the Premier League Golden Boot, and a lot of credit must be attributed to Hazard. There are also wing-backs, especially Marcos Alonso. If it weren't for Hazard, would he have so many opportunities to grab points when he rushes into the penalty area?
Hazard's shooting is indeed because his shooting after the breakthrough is not connected well and his explosive power is not enough, but he will realize this himself, so he will more often choose to pass the ball to others after passing people to create opportunities for others.
Doesn’t this also mean that he has a good mentality and a sense of teamwork? How could the head coach not love such a player?
Of course, Pan Yi was quite happy to see Hazard wanting to improve his shooting. It’s no wonder that I always encourage you to kick and shoot on the court!
As long as he can practice shooting well, Hazard will be closer to the goal of the Golden Globe Award!
"Hey, Eden." Pan Yi walked over and shouted through the barbed wire fence. In foreign countries, it doesn't really matter whether you call someone by your first name or your last name.
If you are familiar with each other, you can call them casually, as long as they are acceptable to each other.
This is especially true for Pan Yi. When he was a fan in his previous life, he was more familiar with the last names of the stars. For example, when you see Kante, you know his name.
"Kante" but speaking his name
"N'Golo", not many people know about it. In this life, he was also used to calling others by their last names, and would call them by their first names when he got acquainted with them.
But since Hazard also has a younger brother, Thorgan Hazard, who is in the Chelsea youth team, Pan Yi is still used to calling him by his name.
"Eden" to avoid confusion. At this time on the training ground, Hazard hit a high-quality volley, but it hit the crossbar and bounced back.
This made his expression look a little depressed. Hearing Pan Yi's shout, the Belgian immediately looked over and waved to say hello: "Boss, you are here."
"How long have you been ejaculating? Take a rest. It's very tiring to ejaculate all the time, and you can't stand it." Pan Yi suggested.
Azar smiled: "Don't worry, I have to shoot ten more times before calling it a day." Pan Yi nodded lightly. This guy probably set a fixed amount for himself every day, and he won't stop until he reaches the target.
"Okay, remember to put the ball away after practice. Our training time is almost up today."
"Understood." Azar nodded.
"Oh, right," Pan Yi suddenly smiled and said to Azar,
"Practice hard and look forward to your scoring in the Champions League final!" Hazard was stunned for a moment, then grinned.
He understood what Pan Yi meant, and he also knew that the head coach had complete trust in him. What this sentence means is that Pan Yi wants him to play in the Champions League final!
And looking forward to his achievements. That was the Champions League final! He came to the Premier League from Ligue 1 and came to Chelsea, wasn’t it just for today?
After all, if you stay in Lille, it will probably be difficult for you to stand on the stage of the Champions League final in your life. In other words, from the first day he came to Chelsea, he dreamed of reaching the Champions League final and lifting the final championship trophy.
He even saw countless times in his dreams that he won the Champions League with Chelsea! He also told himself countless times that he must work hard to get to the championship.
Moreover, you must be the protagonist. Watching the head coach Pan Yi turn around and leave, Hazard's eyes suddenly tightened. He didn't know if he was sweating, but he felt like crying.
Pan Yi understood him, and he was willing to die for Pan Yi. But he quickly turned away and continued his shooting practice.
There were ten more, and he had to finish them before everyone arrived, and he had to clean up the place. When the banging sound of kicking was heard again on the training ground, Pan Yi had already gone to the second floor.
Pan Yi smiled slightly when he saw Hazard starting training again. He has never doubted Hazard's determination and fighting spirit now.
Just as he firmly believes that with Hazard's talent and unremitting efforts, the king of football is destined not to be a loser.
As for whether it will become
"Burger King" and
"Lying Crown King"? Probably not anymore. His achievements must be higher than Pan Yi's previous life!
Pan Yi thought very firmly in his heart. While Pan Yi was thinking about it, he opened the door and walked into the head coach's office.
Sure enough, Abramovich was already waiting for him inside.
"What do you want from me? Mr. Boss?" Pan Yi approached Abu with a smile. The relationship between him and Abu is not like a strict boss-worker relationship, so he calls Abu more casually, and Abu doesn't care.
"Actually, it's nothing, it's just about the competition bonus." Abu said. As early as before the season, Chelsea formulated a detailed bonus system.
This is actually what many clubs will do, especially teams that are capable of winning the championship. For example, how much is the bonus for winning the Premier League, how much is the FA Cup, how much is the League Cup, and of course it also includes the Champions League.
Since Abramovich had already hired Triple Crown coach Pan Yi with the highest salary in the world at that time, he would naturally not be stingy in this regard.
League Cup winner, £1 million; FA Cup winner, £2 million; Premier League winner, £5 million; Champions League winner, £10 million!
This is already a big deal in European football. Although Chelsea failed to win the League Cup and FA Cup, the majority of the prize money goes to the Premier League champions and Champions League champions.
If they win the championship, each player will allocate these bonuses according to playing time. Some main players can get a lot of money.
And now, Abramovich actually wants to talk about competition bonuses?
"I want to double the competition prize money." Sure enough, Abu spoke simply. In other words, the bonus for the Premier League champion that has been won will be as high as 10 million pounds, and the Champions League champion will receive an astonishing 20 million pounds!
He is indeed a generous boss! From here we can also see Abramovich's desire for the Champions League title. What is money?
What I want is the championship! Seeing that Pan Yi didn't speak for a long time, Abu smiled and said, "Actually, you helped me earn all this money."
"Xia Chuang, you didn't spend much money on me, but Dong Chuang made more than 100 million..."
"Winning this Premier League championship will cost more than 100 million pounds. Add in the Champions League bonus, and it will be close to 200 million pounds."
"So, you are actually paying the bonuses given to the players. Haha..." Hearing Abu say this, Pan Yi also laughed.
There is some truth in what he said, but this kind of official bonus is paid into the team's account. If the boss is stingy, how can he be willing to take it out and distribute it to the players and staff?
So, Abu is really a good boss.
"I understand, thank you boss for the rocket..." Pan Yi nodded,
"Well, thank you boss, I will convey it to all the players and staff. I believe that they will be extremely happy after knowing the news!" Abramovich looked at Pan Yi deeply and said with sincerity. : "I'll leave it to you for the Champions League final!" Pan Yi held his hands firmly and nodded: "Just wait to go on stage to receive the award!"
"Okay, I'll wait!" ----------After the morning training, Pan Yi also met a guest from afar in the conference room-Ancelotti.
actually say
"Guest" is not suitable. After all, An Pang has coached Chelsea for two seasons before, and he still has many acquaintances in the club. He is even more familiar with the facilities and roads here than Pan Yi... This time Pan Yi Ancelotti was specially invited to study the common enemy-Barcelona.
Although Pan Yi defeated Barcelona in Milan a few years ago and conducted a detailed study of the tactics of current Barcelona coach Luis Enrique in the system tutorial, after all, things are not what they used to be.
To suppress msn's performance as much as possible to limit Barcelona's offense, this must be done to the extreme.
Therefore, listen to the opinions and suggestions of Barcelona's old opponents and brainstorm ideas to make yourself invincible.
Besides, Ancelotti took the initiative to ask for advice. Wouldn't it be too rude if Pan Yi didn't accept it?
"Let's talk about your 3:1 victory over Barcelona." After sitting down, the two stopped talking and went straight to the topic.
Pan Yi also said directly: "In that game, Real Madrid controlled them in the midfield and completely defeated them. This is actually quite surprising."
"The four midfielders of Kroos, Insco, Ronaldo, and Modric completely suppressed Barcelona's iron triangle of Busquets, Xavi, and Iniesta."
"Since the Barcelona Iron Triangle was officially established in 2008, Real Madrid has rarely had the upper hand in midfield conversations. However, this time, Real Madrid ravaged Barcelona's midfield."
"Can you tell me how you did it? I think it is impossible to truly limit msn, but we can limit the shells they get." Of course, Pan Yi has done research on this game.
Judging from opta's data, Barcelona has a ball possession rate of 57.7% and completed 515 passes; Real Madrid has a 42.3% ball possession rate and completed 362 passes.
However, the connection between Xavi - Iniesta - Busquets was basically cut off by Real Madrid. No two people in the Iron Triangle passed each other more than 10 times, which was extremely rare in the past.
Barcelona's passing line is extremely monotonous. Alves passes the ball to Messi, Rakitic, Busquets, and Suarez the most. The iron triangle cannot be integrated with passing, cutting, and running, and Barcelona's offense falls into a solo effort. mode, front and rear fields are disconnected.
Xavi is the brains of Barcelona, but he only played 59 minutes in the El Clasico before being replaced. In these 59 minutes, Harvey passed the ball 52 times, with a success rate of 94.2%. Apart from accurate passing, Harvey made almost no contribution. He only threatened the ball once, made 14 forward passes, 12 of them were successful, and 7 of them were successful. The second pass back, the threat of passing the ball in sports battles, breakthroughs, and fouls were all zero.
Iniesta was replaced due to injury in the 71st minute of the game. In these 71 minutes, Xiaobai made 64 passes and 56 were successful, including 24 forward passes and 20 successes. Only 1 pass was a threatening ball and 1 breakthrough was successful. 0 fouls were committed, and 13 of 14 return passes were successful.
Busquets played the entire game, making 53 of 61 passes successfully, 15 of which were forward passes and 11 were successful, 0 key passes and breakthroughs were successful, and 14 back passes were successful, 13 of which were successful.
Barcelona's iron triangle had a total of 1 shot and 0 shots on target, 2 threatening passes, 1 successful breakthrough, and 1 foul.
In contrast, Real Madrid's four No. 10 midfielders are efficient and impactful. Ronaldo, who is on the right, made 3 key passes, succeeded in 1 breakthrough, and succeeded in 10 of 11 return passes; Yinske, who was on the left, made 1 breakthrough, made 1 foul, and only made 5 return passes; Modric succeeded in 1 breakthrough , 2 fouls were caused, and only 6 passes were returned. Cross threatened to pass 2 times, 1 breakthrough was successful, 1 foul was caused, and only 8 passes were returned.
Real Madrid's four major midfielders took 7 shots and 2 of them were on target, 5 threatening passes, 4 successful breakthroughs, and 4 fouls, completely destroying Barcelona's iron triangle.
In terms of back passes, Barcelona's Iron Triangle made 35 times and Real Madrid's 4 midfielders made 30 times - Barcelona only led in this statistic.
Barcelona's midfielder lost control, and the athletic ability of the iron triangle was not as good as before, becoming a burden on the team's offense and defense; while Real Madrid's purely technical No. 10, with fast and smooth passing coordination, large-scale interception and defense, was smooth and sharp, Speed and slowness are consistent.
Modric's passing was 100% accurate. Kroos and Ronaldo both sent wonderful passes and assists in their El Clasico debut. In the most critical midfield session, Real Madrid suppressed Barcelona, which gave people the illusion that Real Madrid's midfield is different from its peak period. Barcelona is equally dynamic, but Barcelona's midfield has almost zero presence.
Obviously, Ancelotti completely controlled Barcelona in this game, almost toying with the opponent.
If they gain the upper hand in the midfield clash, msn will be completely unable to unleash their offensive power.
"Why do I feel like you already know what to do, but you still ask me to tell you." Ancelotti said with a smile, but still stood in front of the tactical board and set it up.
"The most important thing to deal with Barcelona is of course the midfield. But it is worth noting that although the current Barcelona is still very good at controlling the ball, there are still some differences compared to the Guardiola era a few years ago. .”
"Luis Enrique's team has his own tactical imprint..."
