Chapter 115 Ibrahimovic who can head the ball

According to Tony Donn's habit of doing things, he must determine the way out before making up his mind about something.

Whether to sell Rikic did have always bothered him within two days. The reason for wanting to keep him is as he thought when he talked to Allen before. The reason for selling him is that starting next season, the Forests' forward line may not be used by so many people... If you can sell a player and earn some transfer funds for the team, it is not impossible.

Tang En is not stubborn in this matter.

In fact, starting from the second half of the season, the Forest team will use more new tactics and new formations to seek breakthroughs.                                                                                                               

The new formation and new tactics will tend to take the initiative to attack. Tang En no longer insists on his 442, but instead plays 451. A stricter division is 4231, the Christmas tree formation.

In this way, the demand for strikers has been greatly reduced. Only one striker will be played in each game. If too many people are allowed to be played on the bench, the rotation will not be arranged, and there will inevitably be people who feel unhappy - why can he be rotated on the court, and I can only continue to be played on the bench?

If you really want to sell Rikic, you have such considerations.

But Rikic is gone. After all, the team lacks a center. At some special moments, a center like Rikic can play a role that no other forward has. Tang En is not willing to throw away a very useful card in vain.

Ibisevic is a shooter, but he is not a center in the pure sense, let alone a center in the standing position.

Van Nystruey will retire after the end of this season. Eastwood's knee, whose three major surgeries, is always like a landmine. I don't know when it will be stepped on. Ibissevic is the only forward who has no hidden dangers. In the new tactics, Abonrajo will become a more comprehensive player. He can be a forward, but Don plans to let him play an offensive right-hand side forward because his speed advantage plays a greater role in the wing.

Milan, who is loaned out, can also play in multiple positions such as forwards and offensive wing forwards, so Piguet always doesn't have to worry about playing opportunities.

If Rikichi is sold again, where can I find a suitable substitute?

Tang En's standard for this substitute is to have certain strength, but it doesn't have to be too strong, because being too strong will definitely require the main position, and this requirement is absolutely not met by Tang En. If Eastwood is healthy and not injured or sick, then he and Ibisevic will be the team's main strikers and will take turns to play.

In this way, the newly added striker will not have that much effect. If possible, Tang En is unwilling to spend money to buy a third striker... It's a waste.

After thinking about this for two days, Tang En thought of someone.

"Are you free now?" During the training interval, Donn grabbed Chris Lak and Don.

"Aren't you training?" Chris Lark found it strange.

"Let the coaches take them first. I want you to accompany me to the reserve training ground."

"Why did you suddenly want to go to the reserve team?" Tang asked.

"I suddenly thought of someone, and I almost forgot him..." Tang En scratched his head and said a little embarrassedly.

He did forget that person...

"You really forgot him." Standing by the training ground in Wilford, Tang glanced at Tang En.

The reserve team does not belong to the youth team, so they train in South Vilford like the first team. The two places are not far apart. They will arrive soon after.

The reserve team was playing a seven-on-seven match on the training ground in front of them. There was a guy in the Yellow Team who was very eye-catching because he was the highest on the field now.

Don and Don and Chris Lack are the ones who come to see him - Aaron Mitcher. Two and a half years ago, Don had gone to the reserve team to inspect Shahin's recovery. But he didn't expect that the protagonist of the land became another person that day.

Mitcher's performance at the centre-back was not good at that time. If he continued to play like this, the best thing might be to spend time in the second division. Anyway, with his local level, he would definitely not be able to gain a foothold in the Premier League, let alone play football in the Nottingham Forest first team.

After watching his training and competition, Tang En called him and suggested that he change to the center from then on. Although they are all mid-lane players, their position has moved from the end to the front. It can be said to be a earth-shaking change.

The reason why Mitcher changed his position was only due to Donn's professional habits. After half a year, he was defeated by a heart disease. He spent another half a year busy fighting with heart disease, completely forgetting about Mitcher. Later, during the rebuilding of the team, since the Forest team did not lack people on the front line, he never thought of the poor man who was left in the youth team without caring about it after he changed his position...

It was not until the matter of Jikic's possible transfer and departure was put on the agenda that he remembered this young man who felt a little similar to Jikic at the time.

Now Aaron Mitchel is twenty years old. He has played in the reserve team for two years, but he has not yet got the chance to enter the first team.

Although playing football in the reserve team can be said to be a way to enter the first team, it does not mean that playing football here will definitely be able to enter the first team. Many players spend most of their time playing football in the reserve team. They can only be occasionally drawn into the first team to solve the urgent problem. These players are still lucky, while more players stay in the reserve team in obscurity, perhaps looking for opportunities in the low-level leagues, or falling down. If a player always plays football in the reserve team after graduating from the youth team, it at least means that he does not have any outstanding talent and talent, so that the future of the player will be dim.

In this regard, Aaron Mitcher's talent is obviously not outstanding.

Mitcher is playing as a center on the court, and his header is still outstanding, of course he has to thank his frightening height. Donne always feels that Dimitcher is taller than the time he has seen before, so he pointed at Mitcher and turned his face to the reserve coach Colin Cradwood next to him: "How tall is he now?"

"Two meters and two." Cradwood replied.

Don Eun whistled: "It's as high as Jikic."

"But he is thinner than Rickic." Tang next to him said.

That's true. Mitcher, who is two meters and two meters, is clear at a glance. He is a bit like Pete Crouch, who once played for the Forests.

"How is the body's ability to fight against each other?" Tang En asked.

"It's very average." Cradwood replied.

This answer made Tang En frown. The center he needs must have a strong body and be able to compete with the opponent's tall and strong defender in the penalty area so that he will not easily lose the position and the ball.

Cradwood certainly knew what Done was worried about, so he laughed and continued: "But Tony, he is not quite the same as the center in that traditional sense..."

"Hmm? Why is it different?"

"Have you ever seen a center who is more than two meters tall and can still ride a bicycle under his feet?"

Donn and the two assistant coaches around him looked at Cradwood in surprise.

"His skills are very good." Cradwood smiled, "and it's very average, and there's no obvious shortcomings in technical terms. He can pass the ball to create opportunities for his teammates, and can also pull to the wing to cross. If he dribbles, it's pretty good with his height. Perhaps because he knows that his physical ability is not strong, he works very hard in technical training, so... it's what you see now."

While they were talking, Mitchel got the ball. When he stopped the ball while running, he used the outside heel. While stopping the football, he also completed the sudden stop and turned around and changed direction...

"Wow—" Chris Lak couldn't help but exclaim.

Stopped the ball on the wing and drifted past one of the opponent's defenders. Mitcher made a cross on the spot, but unfortunately his teammates in the middle did not expect Mitcher to pass so decisively, a slight difference.

Several people stopped talking and began to carefully observe every performance of Mitcher on the court.

Perhaps because he was a central defender, Mitcher still retains the habit of pressing up when he sees the opponent's players get the ball. Unlike those pure offensive players, they take a walk in the frontcourt and watch the opponent take the football away from him. This helped Mitcher get a lot of opportunities to counterattack on the spot in the frontcourt.

Because he is as tall as two meters and two meters, he dribbled the ball very much, so he felt that his speed was not slow either. It would not give people a clumsy feeling like Jikic. In addition to his excellent footwork skills, watching him play football always create an illusion - is this really a big man over two meters tall?

He is not the kind of center who likes to push in front of the goal and wait for his teammates to pass the ball to him. He prefers to pull out, retreat and respond, and over-connect the offense.

His header is indeed a very sharp weapon. As long as the football flies into his volley, it will probably not be able to escape. His amazing height and bounce are not inferior, and he practices heading to compete for the top level and consciousness when playing in the central defender. He is a sky dominant in front of the goal.

Unfortunately, compared to his extremely outstanding header, his shot was a bit bad...

Tang En watched his game for fifteen minutes and made a rough calculation. The success rate of header was as high as 80%, but he shot five times, and only once within the goal frame - he was directly obtained by the goalkeeper because he was too straight.

"Uh...his shooting skills are progressing slowly..." Speaking of this, Cradwood was also a little embarrassed.

In the reserve team, the tactics formulated for Mitchel were to attack, and he retreated to receive the midfield pass. Then he used his foot technique to dribble the ball and then divided the side to his teammates who had already inserted it. He continued to step into the penalty area with big strides. The teammates got rid of the side defense and made a cross, and then Mitchel, who was already in place, competed for the header. At this time, he had two choices: a, header himself; b, ferry to other teammates to create a chance to shoot for them.

A very simple tactic, Mitcher completed it quite well. He was really impeccable on the header.

Unfortunately, my body is really too thin and I have almost no ability to confront the front. This is also an important reason why he couldn't play well in the central defender at the beginning...

He was not recommended by coaches to be promoted to the first team, and this is also an indispensable reason.

The Premier League is the most fierce league in the world. Putting the "reasonable collision" in the Premier League in other leagues may be a malicious foul. A striker who is not physically healthy loses his starting point in competition with others. Apart from Wenger's abnormality, few coaches will like strikers who look like they will fall when the wind blows.

But Donn didn't care so much. He saw hope in Mitcher. A completely different center forward might bring something different to the Forest's offense.

"Call him to the first team tomorrow to report." Tang En snapped his fingers, "I want to register him for the next stage of the Champions League."

The meaning of this sentence is that Jikic can leave with confidence...

Neither assistant coach made any sense for Don Eun’s decision. They also saw the shining things on Mitcher, and the shortcomings should be compensated through training and high-level competitions.

After explaining these things, Tang En left with the two assistant coaches. They also had to return to the first-team training ground and could not waste too much time here.

Aaron Mitcher only heard from reserve coach Colin Cradwood that he was transferred to the first team after training. After a brief daze, he was delighted. Since he changed to play forward, he had also thought about his future in the Forest team. He felt that since the leader wanted to play forward by himself, he might need a forward.

However, when he saw the Forest team's huge and bloated front lineup, he felt a little desperate. He believed that he was not an outstanding player, and the only thing he was proud of was his height and header.

He constantly practices his skills in the hope of giving himself some different traits that stand out from other big players.

After Colin Cradwood decided to let him practice how to be a striker, he also noticed Mitcher's efforts and characteristics in this regard, so he recommended a role model to Mitcher.

This role model is not Zickic in the Forest team, nor Van Nistruei. Instead, Ibrahimovic is far away in Inter Milan, Italy.

In addition to training, he will study the playing characteristics and style of this Swedish high center forward and strive to imitate and learn. He hopes that he can also become a striker who is over 1.9 meters tall but has excellent skills under his feet.

Now the opportunity is here!

The next day, he went straight to the first-team training ground and met his star teammates whom he rarely met on the sidelines, which made him a little excited. The teammates also looked at Mitcher, who was standing alone on the sidelines and having fun.

Mitcher is not a person like Mok, although he is in the reserve team. But his name has long been spread throughout the club. He has been unknown before coming here. Although everyone is in the same club, it is normal for them to be unfamiliar with each other.

While the first team players warmed up together, Aaron Mitcher was still standing outside, a little overwhelmed.

At this time his savior came.

Tony Donn and two assistant coaches Bu Ru training ground, he saw Dimitcher wandering outside the crowd at a glance, and waved to him: "Boy, come here!"

"This is your new teammate." He pulled Mitcher. Donn introduced to other players. "Aron Mitcher, playing as a striker, used to play as a central defender."

Hearing his strange position change, the players exclaimed a burst of amazement.

After a brief introduction, Done asked the players to warm up, but he left Mitcher alone.

"I have to explain some things to you in advance to avoid trouble in the future." Tang En said to Mitcher, who was standing in front of him respectfully, "First of all. You can be transferred to the first team to prove that you are capable. So don't doubt that you are not strong enough; secondly, don't think about what main position you can get by entering the first team. Starting opportunities... I won't promise you these things now. If you want to have all this, you can only strive for it with your own training attitude and state. You must know that you can only rank last among all the forwards in the first team."

Mitcher kept nodding.

"You'd better welcome the first team days with a learning attitude. I think that will help you."

When he said this, Tang En's face wearing sunglasses was always stern. He didn't mind being strict with these young people, because he knew how cruel professional football was, and it would be better that there was no illusion. Only by being down-to-earth could he achieve something. On the road to growth of these young people, he was willing to be the number one evil person in the hearts of these people.

Seeing that Mitcher's attitude was good and his humble acceptance made Done very satisfied. He finished his preaching and began to assign specific training tasks: "From today to strengthen your shooting training and strength training. The coaching staff will develop a special training plan for you and practice according to it. I heard that when you were in the reserve team, Coach Kradwood asked you to learn from Ibrahimovic?"

Mitcher nodded: "Yes, boss. I hope to be a striker like him."

"Don't make a mistake, boy. Ibrahimovic is not weak, and his shooting ability is ten light years stronger than you."

Mitcher's expression became gloomy. Although Tang En told the truth, the truth was not very good...

Donne remembered that although Mitcher was twenty years old, he was still a young player after all. Sometimes he needed encouragement.
Chapter completed!