One thing we can expect to see a lot from new manager Thomas Tuchel is formation and tactical surprises.
The man is a master tactician and he is not afraid to try things that others would consider as ‘too outside of the box.’
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Like playing Callum Hudson-Odoi as a right wing-back, then later on in the game moving him to a left wing-back, and putting Christian Pulisic on as a right wing-back. Especially considering this is a position that the 20-year has never played before.
However, it was a great decision and the England international absolutely thrived. He even got back in to make an all important block in our own penalty area to keep the score line at 0-0 in the dying moments.
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He was easily a candidate for Chelsea’s best player on the night, and he says he is ready to play wherever the coach puts him.
As reported by WAGNH, Hudson-Odoi said:
“It was something new for me. It was my first time trying it [in training] and I felt alright playing in it, it wasn’t a problem for me. It was good trying to play that position and no matter where the manager asks me to play I will try to do my best.
“I spotted it straight away [last minute chance for Wolves]. I said to myself I have to get back there as quick as possible and I gave all my effort to do so and try to get a little touch on the ball to take it away.
“[Tuchel] wants me to be as direct and to keep getting at full-backs and defenders as much as possible. He knows all the attacking players can be free and score goals and he wants us to be direct and keep pushing and try to get goals and get assists. He told me to work up and down that line, be direct and stay as high and wide as possible.
“I try to break the line and keep doing different movements to get the ball. He wants us to keep going in behind and find good passes, find different ways of breaking teams instead of trying to beat them every time with the ball.
“At half-time [Tuchel] told us to keep the same mentality and to keep what we were doing because we were playing really well, working really hard and the intensity of the game was really high for us. So we have to keep pushing and keep pushing and to try to come out with the same mentality and the same intensity and try to get the goal.
“From the start he said just go out there and play with aggression and intensity, and you could see on the pitch that we did that and we were unfortunate not to get that goal.
“I felt that it was a game we deserved to win, we had the right mentality from the start. We will reflect on it and try to be more clinical in front of goal.”
It was good match but wolves only played some sort of counterattack football.