After the Premier League game against Arsenal, the Aston Villa team did not return to Birmingham.

The next day, the team departed from London Heathrow Airport and flew directly to Barcelona, arriving three days early to prepare for the key match against Barcelona.

This is Fang Jue's departure from Spain to England, and the second time he has led the team to play in Spain after a lapse of three years.

He led the magical Ibiza side to a 1-0 win at Camp Nou, a game that is considered a crucial battle for Ibiza to eventually win the La Liga title.

Ibiza were eight points ahead of Barcelona before that game, and a loss would have narrowed the gap to five points, which would be a tight title race with 10 games remaining.

In the end, Ibiza won the game, leading Barcelona by eleven points with ten rounds remaining in La Liga, laying the foundation for a great title-winning season!

In that game, it was Deisler who scored for Ibiza.

The assist for Deisler was Fang Jue's favorite protégé Lewandowski.

Now, in the Aston Villa team, Clemente, Luka Modric, Sadio Mane and Grenor are in that Ibiza team, and several people are still talking about that game on the plane.

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The media is looking ahead to the match between Aston Villa and Barcelona, and is relatively optimistic about the home team, Barcelona.

and then expanded to be optimistic about which team can finally advance to the semi-finals, and most of them are also optimistic about Barcelona.

Their reasoning is that the Aston Villa side is on a downward trend compared to last season.

Especially in the defensive line, Aston Villa Aston Villa's strength has dropped too much......

Last season, Aston Villa had Senderos, Davies, the Senegalese and Cuellar available at centre-back.

Now, the Senegalese is leaving, Davies is leaving, and Cuellar is also moving back to Spain.

Aston Villa's Nathan Deros is recovering from an injury to young youngster Sillen. Clarke is also injured, and only Papastathopoulos is a decent centre-back, but the Greek is far behind Davies or the Senegalese.

Moreover, this is only a central defender position, and in the other central defender position, if Fang Jue does not use players in other positions to make cameos, the only thing he can use is youth youngster Nathan Baker.

The media even used the term 'broken' defence to describe Aston Villa in their current form.

In comparison, Barcelona's defence is much more luxurious.

The main centre-back is the partnership between Pique and Mascherano.

Since his return to Barcelona, Gerard Pique has developed into the team's most indispensable defensive core.

Mascherano originally joined from Liverpool in 2010 as a defensive midfielder, but the Argentine has since become Pique's most reliable partner.

The centre-back duo has been hailed by the Barcelona media as the top centre-back partnership of the decade.

At right wing-back is Brazilian star Alves, and on the left is Barcelona captain Puyol.

The former is considered by many media to be the first right-back in football at the moment, and the latter is the captain and banner of Barcelona? Experienced? It is the anchor of Barcelona.

In terms of goalkeepers, the media also thinks that Barcelona's Valdés is both tournament experience and on-field strength? At the moment, they are all better than De Gea of Aston Villa.

"Daily Sport" compared the defense of the two teams? It was concluded that the current Barcelona (defensive line) can shake off eight streets of Aston Villa!

Even if it's a midfield that Fang Jue is proud of? The Catalan media also believe that it is their own side that is superior.

Aston Villa's strongest midfield, Gareth. Bel? Barcelona has Leao. Messi.

Does Aston Villa have Mane? Barcelona has Iniesta.

Aston Villa have Luka Modric and Barcelona have Xavi.

Aston Villa have Suarez and Barcelona have Villa.

Aston Villa has ......, Barcelona has ......

Does Aston Villa have Clement? Barcelona has Sergio Busquets? Well, the only thing the Catalan media acknowledges is Clemente, Barcelona can't compare.

However, some media pointed out that compared to the honest Clement? Busquets, who is flexible and skillful, also has his own special strengths.

So, Aston Villa's defence is far inferior to Barcelona's? The midfield also seems to be 'slightly weaker' than Barcelona.

It's no wonder that everyone is not optimistic about Aston Villa.

If there is one advantage that Aston Villa has over Barcelona, it is that their manager Fang Jue has beaten Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola.

Of course? This refers not only to appearance, this does not need to be compared? Fang Jue dumped Guardiola eighteen streets.

Referring to the results of the two sides? Fang Jue led Ibiza to meet Pep Guardiola's Barcelona twice in La Liga in the 2008/2009 season? Ibiza beat Barcelona twice, including a 6-2 win over Barcelona in Ibiza's home game.

In that game, Robert Lewandowski scored twice, while Juan Mata, Luka Modric, Fareco and Tomasson scored a goal each to beat Barcelona.

Then there was last season's Champions League final, when Aston Villa beat Barcelona 5-3, Gareth Bale scored a hat-trick, Deisler scored, and Ronaldo scored his only valuable goal in his first Champions League final!

Fang instructed three dozen Guapep, and the stick was good.

Therefore, although a considerable number of media are not optimistic about Aston Villa, the local media in Birmingham are very confident in Aston Villa.

Their confidence comes from the magic of Fang Jue's coaching career, but also from the brilliant achievements of the three years at the helm of Aston Villa.

It is worth mentioning that in Spain, the media and fans in Ibiza are clearly on the side of Aston Villa, believing that Fang Jue will lead the team to kill Barcelona for the fourth time.

Although it has been three years since he left Ibiza, Fang Jue still has a high level of popularity and influence here.

The local media even half-jokingly said that if Fang Jue was willing to run for mayor, he would definitely be elected without any suspense.

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Barcelona, Los Pitalé.

Fang Jue had a small gathering with old friends, and the participants were very interesting.

There is Carl. Fernando and his wife Tracy.

and Ibiza head coach Pablo before Fang Jue took charge of Ibiza. Fernandez.

The former was once the vanguard of the crazy Black Fang Jue in the Spanish media industry, and the relationship with Fang Jue was very bad, and once both sides hated each other so much.

Especially Fernando once angrily watched Fang Jue's Ibiza play game, as if eating, and then sprayed Fang Jue to poison the, which made Fang Jue angry.

What's interesting is that Fernando didn't know how to think about it later, and he actually started to 'tout' Fang Jue, and finally 'whitewashed', plus his wife Tracy is a resident of Ibiza and is the sister-in-law of Fang Jue's friend Queiroz, well, this has become a friend.

As for Fernandez, Fang Jue has always respected this senior.

Talking about the past, Fernandez also sighed that if he knew that Fang Jue was so talented in coaching, he would have smashed the window of his house by himself, and then resigned under the pretext of resigning, and strongly recommended Fang Jue to take the position.

Fang Jue's face did not change and clinked glasses with the old-timers, feeling that this was a little embarrassing.

He asked with concern, has there been a result of the so-called 'No. 1 unsolved case in Ibiza' that smashed the glass back then?

"The case has been solved!" Fernandez sighed, looked at Fang Jue with a complicated expression, and said, "I found the person who smashed the glass." ”

Fang Jue raised his head violently: - Ga ——!!!

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