If some media and fans like to divide the coach into factions, Aston Villa manager Fang Jue and his opponent today's game Wigan Athletic manager Roberto Atletico Wing. Martinez is barely a faction.

Fang Jue is from La Liga, and although his coach Ibiza also advocates pressing and defensive counterattacks, Ibiza can also play a very pleasing attacking combination.

Roberto. Martinez is a Spaniard, and his football philosophy also favors fluid attack.

Of course, the biggest name in the Premier League's Spanish faction is Liverpool manager Rafa. Benitez, who once led Liverpool to the UEFA Champions League, belongs to a higher level, and Benitez obviously has no intention of forming a faction, and he has never expressed any opinion about these two juniors.

Expectations are high in England for this game, which is the Premier League debut of Fang Jue, one of the most famous young coaches in European football at the moment, and Martinez's debut in charge of Wigan Athletic.

Of course, the main expectation is the former, with everyone's eyes wide open to see how the Chinese coach who led Ibiza to a miracle will perform in the Premier League, and whether his magic will lose its magic because of the lack of adaptation.

And Aston Villa's starting lineup surprised everyone, Fang Jue put out a starting lineup dominated by Aston Villa's players from last season.

Deisler was on the bench, Sendros was on the bench, and Robert Brown. Enke sat on the bench and Gareth. Bale and Ruud van Nistelrooy were injured in the stands.

Only Clement got the start.

Aston Villa's starting goalkeeper was veteran Friedel, right-back was Lukjan and left-back was Dutch veteran Wilfred. Bouma, the centre-back partner is Curtis. Davis and Cuellar; The midfield is a midfield of Ashley Young, Clement, Simon Leiter, Petrov and Milner, and up front is fast striker Abang Lajo.

On the Wigan Athletic side, the starting goalkeeper was Kirkland, the back line was Melchiot, Bramble, Scharna and Figueroa from right to left, and the midfielders were Thomas and Michael. Brown, N'Zogbia and Gomez, with Coomas and Rodelega partnering up front.

Fang Jue's starting lineup obviously surprised Wigan Athletic manager Martinez, and the most surprising thing was the German star Sebastian, who is known as the number one descendant of the Chinese coach. Deisler actually sat on the bench.

Moreover, Fang Jue actually made his own Premier League debut, in his home debut, the midfielder arranged Clement and Sidwell, two fierce interceptors, to start together, which caught Martinez off guard.

As we all know, Petrov is not a real playmaker up front, Ashley Young and Milner are more likely to go straight up and down the wings, so how can Aston Villa play well with such a midfield configuration?

Could it be that Aston Villa should play conservatively at home?

Although the idea is somewhat ridiculous, Martinez has a gut feeling that this guy is going to do so?

What is this brain circuit?

Aston Villa's strength is stronger than Wigan Athletic, although the second half of last season's schedule collapsed, but the ranking is still several places higher than Wigan Athletic, and the value of Aston Villa's entire team is several times that of Wigan Athletic.

In this case, home debut, Premier League debut, you are so cowardly?

Martinez couldn't understand that if he had such a good card in his hand anyway, he would definitely play an offensive game at home.

Yes, Aston Villa are good cards relative to Wigan Athletic.

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"Wigan Athletic met Aston Villa's extremely stubborn resistance from the very beginning of the game, and the commentator of 5 was played. Mortenson said sarcastically.

Yes, it's sarcasm.

Aston Villa, who are stronger than their opponents, and who are playing at home, play so conservatively at home, and even give up the offensive dominance, which makes the gold medal commentator very incomprehensible and looks down on the guy who formulated this tactical play.

"Maybe it's out of prudence." Lineker said cautiously.

The Aston Villa fans in the stands were also very incomprehensible, however, the fans still had a certain amount of patience and did not rebel at the beginning.

Regardless of what the fans and commentators were thinking, the game was played like this.

Aston Villa played a tough defensive attitude in the game, aggressively scrambling, using their excellent fitness to run all over the pitch and start to steal the football at the feet of Wigan Athletic players from the front court.

In particular, Sidwell and Clement, two players with strong interception ability, are like building a wall in front of Aston Villa's defence.

"Clement is really capable." Although he questioned Aston Villa's conservative tactics, Mortensen said fairly, "Clement has a strong interception ability, a large sweeping area, and Sidwell is by his side to help him fill in the gaps, and the combination of these two backs is very compatible." ”

"If you just look at the defensive performance, the duo of these two guys, and the performance at the interception end, is really impressive." Lineker also said.

"And Milner, who is more forward than Ashley Young on the left, is more defensive and has a lot of strength at the defensive end against N'Zogbia, who has strong attacking ability."

N'Zogbia has a strong ability to go straight up and down, and his assists and breakthroughs on the left side are a favorite sight for Wigan Athletic fans, but in today's game, N'Zogbia was strongly contained.

Not only Enzobia, but the whole Wigan Athletic team was a little uncomfortable in the face of such a crazy scramble from Aston Villa, and the technical statistics of active errors skyrocketed.

This is not to say that Wigan Athletic is not good at confrontation, after all, in the Premier League, the Premier League is originally a competition that focuses on confrontation and the intensity of the game is very intense.

However, the problem lies in the tactical preparation for this game at Wigan Athletic, Martinez judged that Fang Jue would be 'hungry to win' and 'eager to win' in his Premier League debut, and he judged that Aston Villa would play very positively, so the tactics Martinez formulated for Wigan Athletic in this game was to attack against Aston Villa.

Of course, Martinez is not unprepared defensively, and he has arranged for the strong fighting ability of Michael in the middle of the midfield. Brown, the former Leeds United stalwart.

However, he didn't expect Fang Jue to do even better, Clement and Sidwell, two sturdy men, Michael. Brown: Don't want to.

Petrov is also capable of attacking and defending, which is also very compatible with this set of tactics based on pressing.

The Wigan Athletic players were clearly ill-prepared for the Villans' lethal style of play, and were panicked by Wigan Athletic, performing significantly below their benchmark level.

The scramble between the players on both sides is also getting bigger.

Referee Clattenburg's whistle sounds.

Nearly 40 minutes into the first half, Clattenburg had already shown six yellow cards, two for Aston Villa and four for Wigan Athletic.

Yes, you read that right, there were only two yellow cards for Aston Villa, who fought fiercely, while Wigan Athletic had four.

It's not because the referee is biased in favour of the home team.

The Aston Villa player's foul was well controlled, and the foul came from behind, and the action was not big, but the intensity was enough, for example, this time, as soon as En'Zogbia got the ball, Milner pressed up, and Clement suddenly stepped up, broke the ball from the side, and at the same time, because of the untimely foot, brought N'Zogbia down.

N'Zobia sat on the ground and raised his hands in protest, signaling for Clement to foul.

The referee waved his hand and ignored it, and this level of tackle is within the permissible range of the Premier League.

"Clement is such a baby." Mortensen was unhappy with Aston Villa's conservative tactics, but he seemed to really like Clement, and in addition to criticizing Fang Jue's tactical choices, he praised Clement in the first half.

"Yes, it's hard to imagine that a player from the Spanish league can adapt to the Premier League so quickly." Lineker also praised, saying, "Watching him play, I think of Makelele. ”

As for why Wigan Athletic ate more cards, it turned out to be because they were made angry by Aston Villa's scramble, and when they were excited, they inevitably moved bigger, and some players roared at the referee and received fearless yellow cards.

Martinez watched this scene from the sidelines, and also shook his head.

He admitted that he underestimated Fang Jue, in the Premier League debut, in the name of the coach of last season's double, this person was so cautious, and his posture was so low, it was really unimaginable, to treat others with himself, Martinez felt that if he was Fang Jue, he would not be able to do this.

At the end of the first half, the score was 0-0, with neither side scoring, and the whole first half was a scene of back-to-back play, Wigan Athletic tried to find a goal, but soon fell into hand-to-hand combat with Aston Villa.

As for Aston Villa, they didn't seem to think about scoring in the first half, and the forward striker Agbonlaho didn't get any decent attacking chances.

"Conservative tactics, bad first half." John. "I didn't feel like time was passing so quickly, though. ”

Indeed, the first half of the game was very fierce, and the time passed before you knew it.

"If you look at the intensity of the scramble, Coach Fang Jue has achieved the standard of a qualified Premier League coach." Lineker said, though, obviously, that wasn't exactly a good thing.

In the camera, Fang Jue got up from the coach's seat, smiled, applauded, high-fived the players who left the field, and patted them on the shoulder.

"It's like Aston Villa scoring the lead." John. Mortensen couldn't help but sarcastically say, "To be honest, I was disappointed with Coach Fang Jue's half-time debut. ”