Graham Potter was officially announced by Chelsea yesterday as replacing Tuchel to become the head coach of the Blues. How to apply tactics to the London team is the biggest question asked by fans.

The 0-1 defeat to Dinamo Zagreb in the opening match of the Champions League group stage signaled the end for Thomas Tuchel at Chelsea.

Graham Potter officially became the head coach of Chelsea.

Potter is a modern coach and strategist with strengths in flexibly changing team tactics.

The midfielder advances the ball – launches the attack

Under Thomas Tuchel, the team’s central defenders were not allowed to hold the ball to advance the ball much forward, they were only allowed to move to the area of 1/3 of the field.

Instead, Jorginho will be the main ball circulation station up front for Chelsea.

Adam Webster is a central defender with the ability to distribute the ball to 1/3 of the opponent’s field extremely well.

However, under Graham Potter, this may change.

At Brighton, centre-backs play an important role when it comes to building the club’s attacking style of play with players like Adam Webster and Ben White (who has since moved to Chelsea) improving with their ability to move the ball.

Heat map of Koulibaly’s in-match movement positions.

This summer, Chelsea invested 34 million pounds to recruit Senegalese midfielder Kalidou Koulibaly from Napoli.

This player is Coach Potter’s favorite type of midfielder with the ability to advance the ball forward and launch good counter-attacks.

The comparison of Webster and Koulibaly’s passes has many similarities.

With Thiago Silva not strong in attack and rookie Wesley Fofana only having an advantage in defense, it is entirely possible that we will see Koulibaly take on an important role in Chelsea’s play in the near future.

The fullback is the main detonator

One of the biggest criticisms under Tuchel was that he used Reece James as a right-sided centre-back in a three-back formation.

At Brighton, one of the most outstanding aspects of Graham Potter’s time was his ability to get the most out of his full-backs.

Leandro Trossard is one of the typical full-backs whose tactics Potter has applied successfully.

Brighton’s most recent match, the 5-2 demolition of Leicester City, was a case in point, as they played with Solly March at right-back and Leandro Trossard at left-back active.

James’ activity location heat map.

At Chelsea, the English coach will have the services of two full-backs who are among the best players in the world currently in their positions, Reece James and Marc Cucurella.

The important role of the full-backs under Potter was used to control the entire flanks in both the attacking and defensive phases of the match.

Compare the performance of Cucurella and James in all matches in the Premier League 2021/2022.

The midfield area is for physical players

With ball progression mainly coming from centre-backs and full-backs controlling wide areas of the pitch, we can see Brighton’s central midfielders play a versatile role and have the flexibility to switch positions.

This season it can be easily seen that Brighton’s midfield is the main key to the team’s sublime performance in the Premier League this year with Moises Caicedo, Enock Mwepu and Alexis Mac Allister all performing excellently.

Brighton’s midfielders are physically strong players, always present in hot spots on the field.

The key to Brighton’s midfield and the style of play that Potter favors in these areas is that all players have the ability to move the ball and cover the central areas of play.

Perhaps at Chelsea that is the biggest challenge Potter will face when taking over the team.

Jorginho is not the right midfielder to play in Coach Potter’s tactics.

Jorginho is too slow and not the type of midfielder who covers the field, Kovacic is not the type of player who is good at circulating the ball.

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Graham Potter’s Brighton Revolution.