Coaching career started as a college team coach

"The forwards are Hwang Hee-chan and Dabur, Haidara is on the right, let Minamino come on the left."

"...Minamino Takumi is on the left, the two midfielders are Schlager and Samaseku." Zhan Jun explained, "In the back line, Reiner and Ulmer are the right and left backs respectively, and the two central defenders are Ramalho and Yaleta Karl."

"The goalkeeper is Alexander Walker, we see the game has started!"

"This is the first round of the 2017/2018 Europa League quarter-finals. The game between Wolves and Salzburg Red Bull at home has begun. I am the commentator Zhan Jun, and Zhang Lu is accompanying me to comment."

"Hello everyone." Zhang Lu smiled.

Zhan Jun looked at the unfamiliar broadcasting station display and was quite emotional. He was not responsible for the commentary of the Europa League before, but for the commentary of the Premier League and other English leagues.

However, since this game was played by Wolves, a Premier League team, the platform considered that the audience preferred to listen to the commentators they were familiar with, so it specially arranged the commentary task for Zhan Jun for this game.

He was able to get "extra money" thanks to Wolves.

Zhan Jun was actually not very impressed with the Austrian team Salzburg Red Bull, and he also raised this point, but after the leaders discussed it, they said to Zhan Jun:

"You are indeed not familiar with Salzburg Red Bull and the Austrian Super League, but you are familiar with Wolves."

This is indeed true. If you want to find a commentator on the platform who knows the Austrian league well, to be honest, you really can't find one. At present, the copyrights covered by the platform are basically part of the broadcasting rights of the five major leagues.

And if you put aside the Austrian league and find a commentator who is most familiar with Wolves, it must be the combination of Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu.

"Wolves' lineup is a little different from the previous games, mainly because their main left-back Tierney sprained his ankle and may be out for a week or longer. Dendoncker and Almiron are also not on the roster."

Zhang Lu shook his head and said, "Almiron has been injured frequently since he came to Wolves. Sometimes he gets injured right after he starts to play."

"Martinez is still the goalkeeper, the central defender is the traditional combination of Maguire and Ruben Dias, the left-back is Alphonso Davies, and the right-back is Kounde, who should still play an inward role."

"As for the defensive midfielder, Rodri started the game, and it is worth noting that De Paul appeared directly in the defensive midfielder position this time."

"This is indeed a point worth noting." Zhang Lu said.

"The attacking midfielder is Van der Beck, who is responsible for the organization of the frontcourt, the wingers on both sides are Trossard and Bowen, and the center forward is Jota."

At the beginning of the game, both sides were still in the stage of testing each other. Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu are commentators who are very good at controlling the rhythm. They are the type of commentators who "will not let words fall to the ground".

At this time, they began to comment on the lineups and formations of both sides.

"The last Europa League match was against Dortmund. At that time, De Paul appeared in the position of defensive midfielder. But the starting lineup at the beginning wrote that he played as a front midfielder."

"This game is directly not pretending, it is directly stated that he is going to play as a defensive midfielder." Zhang Lu smiled.

"De Paul is a player that cannot be viewed in the same way as before. Just looking at his body shape, he is stronger than before. It seems that he is specially transformed into a defensive midfielder."

"How does Coach Zhang Lu view this transformation?"

Zhang Lu thought for a while and said, "I am actually not sure. The change from attacking midfielder to defensive midfielder is more complicated than the transformation from defender to defensive midfielder."

"From defender to defensive midfielder, it can be understood as letting the defender take on more responsibilities; but if it is from attacking midfielder to defensive midfielder, it is actually restricting the player's right to attack forward.

It is actually relatively simple to want to learn something, but it is hard to say if you want him to completely forget what he has been doing before.

In the last game, I saw De Paul often go forward. Sometimes the choice of going forward is not rational enough. He went up directly without discussing with Rodri, resulting in a large space in the midfield, and Ruben Dias had to clean up his mess."

After Zhang Lu finished speaking, the ball came to De Paul.

"Look at De Paul taking the ball."

After observing for a while, De Paul passed the ball back to the central defender. Maguire then launched an attack with a long pass.

Seeing De Paul pass back, Wei Le nodded with satisfaction, but Maguire, who was not far from Wei Le,Marco Rose frowned. The radical dribbling he imagined did not happen. Instead, he passed the ball back in a somewhat conservative way.

But this pass actually opened up space, leaving Maguire enough time to handle the ball, and attracted the Salzburg Red Bull players to press forward, which in turn created opportunities for Wolves to counterattack.

If De Paul really thought of doing this, then it seems that De Paul's playing as a defensive midfielder was not a whim, but a long-planned change of formation!

Marco Rose paced back and forth in the technical area, observing the situation on the field. In the end, this attack was ruined because of Bowen's mistake in stopping the ball.

"Salzburg Red Bull's counterattack."

Salzburg Red Bull, or the Red Bull team, is playing a 4-4-2, or it can be understood as a 4-2-2-2 formation. The two defensive midfielders in this formation are better at defense, and they will press forward appropriately when attacking, while the positions of the wingers on both sides are actually relatively inside, and can be regarded as wing front midfielders.

Rose's Salzburg Red Bull plays this way, and RB Leipzig's Hasenhüttl also plays this way.

This tactical play relies heavily on the performance of the wingers on both sides. Therefore, in this game, Salzburg Red Bull directly sent out the strongest lineup, Amadou Haidara and Takumi Minamino.

Takumi Minamino is a typical Japanese player. Like his predecessors who went from the Japanese league to Europe, he is not very tall and his body is not outstanding, but his advantage is that his center of gravity is low, and more importantly, he dribbles the ball very fast and is good at handling the ball at his feet.

The ball quickly developed to the two sides of the wing, and Takumi Minamino retreated to receive the ball. He just turned his head to check if there was anyone behind him, and saw De Paul in the home yellow jersey rushing towards him quickly!

"Don't!" Takumi Minamino hurriedly shouted to Yaleta Karl not to pass the ball to him, but after he finished speaking, Karl had already kicked the ball out.

Takumi Minamino quickly prepared for the confrontation, but he didn't expect that he felt that he flew directly out! De Paul pushed him away from the side, but for Minamino Takumi, it was like a truck hit him!

De Paul grabbed the ball before him and passed it to Rodri to deal with it.

Minamino Takumi rolled on the ground in pain. He was hit by the ball and his breath was out of control. But what's more hateful is why the referee didn't blow the whistle!