DBasia.news – Changing coaches is often a blessing for some players at the club. One example is Callum Hudson-Odoi under the direction of German manager, Thomas Tuchel.
Tuchel (47 years old) came to replace Frank Lampard who was fired by Chelsea. He passed two matches against Wolverhampton Wanderers and Burnley with different results: a goalless draw against Wolves and a 2-0 win against Burnley.
The latest win against Burnley at Stamford Bridge shows clearly the playing intent Tuchel wants to implement at Chelsea.
“I hope we will attack and play brave football, we play to score goals and create opportunities. This is an intense match, we need a winning mentality and be to compact and solid. That’s what we want to create,” said Tuchel some time ago.
Playing offensively and trying to entertain the audience. Tuchel has done it with Chelsea’s dominance of possession in the two games against Wolves and Burnley. Among the changes seen was a return to tactics from the three defenders.
In a 3-4-2-1 formation there is one player who is placed in a different position, but in that position found his best form. He is Callum Hudson-Odoi.
Role Transformation
Promotion in 2017 to the Chelsea first team, Hudson-Odoi did not suffer the same fate as other academy products or young players who went on to loan at other clubs.
Hudson-Odoi with his technical quality and talent was immediately in the spotlight. However, in the era of Antonio Conte, Maurizio Sarri, to Frank Lampard, Hudson-Odoi’s quality was not used to its full potential.
While being coached by Conte, he chose other players because Hudson-Odoi was still young, so was Sarri and Lampard until Bayern Munich tried to seize the British talent by taking advantage of this situation.
The 20 year old player’s fortunes changed with the arrival of Tuchel. The position as full-back was given to Hudson-Odoi and it has been a moment of his awakening ever since.
“Why not? (Playing Hudson-Odoi at full-back). Of course we know him, there are rumors around him and Bayern Munich, but we knew beforehand if you are interested in football, the players who will come, he is in focus before I thought about becoming his manager, “explained Tuchel regarding Hudson-Odoi’s playing position.
“He can get his input, he has the ability to determine by his run, his pace and at this point we’ve chosen this structure.”
“He can play in the offensive half, this is clear and we wanted to take a chance against Wolves so we went with Chilly and him, today Marcos and him.”
“He has another good game, if we can increase the precision of our men in the box then maybe we can score more goals,” added Tuchel.
Against Burnley Hudson-Odoi has a 100% passing percentage, made 10 passes in the opponent’s defense, created three chances and has two kicks, including one hitting the crossbar.
Like Victor Moses, who was ‘reborn’ when Conte put him at full-back, Hudson-Odoi also did well to start Thomas Tuchel’s revolution at Chelsea.