"Are you alright?"

Early the next morning, He Tao lay on the bed and asked Wang Shuai sideways. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Well, it's okay."

"Hmph, you're fine, I'm fine!"

"Forehead ......"

Looking at his girlfriend beside him, Wang Shuai was a little embarrassed.

Although the loss to Liverpool did not have any impact on Wang Shuai, he will inevitably still have some resentment in his heart. So that night, Wang Shuai and He Tao "exercised" for more than three hours.

As a result, Wang Shuai's grievances were vented, but He Tao had a sore back and legs, and he woke up in the morning with a faint pain.

"I'm sorry......" Wang Shuai also knew that he had gone too far last night, so he hurriedly apologized.

"Humph!" He Tao glared at Wang Shuai, "Don't hurry up and cook!" Hiss...... It hurts me to death......"

"Okay, okay, I'll go! The concubine is so resting! Wang Shuai made a joke and rolled over and got out of bed.

"Aifei? It's actually a concubine? Say, who is the queen?! Listening to Wang Shuai's name for himself, He Tao's anger didn't come to one place.

"Uh...... I never accept it, don't you know it? Wang Shuai hurriedly made up for it, and then slipped away after speaking. He knew that He Tao was angry now, so it was better to get out quickly.

……

Villa's schedule for November is not intense, with only four games left for the month after the game against Liverpool. One League Cup, one Europa League group stage, and two league games.

The next game, the twelfth round of the Premier League, is half a month later on the 19th, when Villa away to Swansea. It wasn't a difficult game, with Swansea currently sitting in 15th place, the only game in three weeks for Villa, who were in their prime, with a nine-in-a-nine chance of taking all three points away from home.

A week later, on November 25, Vera will make an expedition to Austria to challenge Vienna. This Europa League group stage is no longer relevant for Villa, because after four rounds of group stage, Villa have won all four games and are at the top of the table, while Roma is second with 5 points from 1 win, 2 draws and 1 loss, which means that Villa have now locked up the top spot in the group ahead of schedule.

While those two games were fine for Villa, the other two were not.

The second day of the Europa League group stage is the thirteenth round of the Premier League, and Villa host Manchester City at the top of the league. Looking at such a schedule, Wang Shuai decided to give up the fifth round of the Europa League without thinking about it. Anyway, he has already qualified first in the group, and it is enough to send a full substitute squad to Austria, and even Wang Shuai himself does not want to make this trip, but let assistant coach Reif lead the team to Vienna, and he himself stays in Birmingham to concentrate on preparing for the game against Manchester City.

Despite having made such a decision, Wang Shuai still does not have much confidence in this match. Tottenham, Everton and Liverpool, Villa only achieved an embarrassing record of 1 draw and 2 defeats, and now facing the menacing Manchester City, Villa is even more unlucky.

Manchester City's real strength is actually not the top in the Premier League this season, but as mentioned before, Manchester City did not adjust their main squad this season, so at the beginning of the season, the tacit understanding of tactical coordination gave them an advantage. Unlike Liverpool, the Reds' tacit tactics are trident, oh, and now add Scott, the triangular offensive tactics of these four people. Manchester City, on the other hand, is the whole team's tactics at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends are very tacit, although looking at the attack alone, Manchester City is not as good as Liverpool, but Manchester City's performance is more comprehensive.

In fact, in the previous game with Liverpool, Wang Shuai felt that his tactics still made mistakes, the same mistake as last season, that is, relying too much on defensive tactics. Last season, Villa's luck was good, with three wins and one defeat against four strong teams, but this game against Liverpool, luck obviously did not come to Villa's side.

Therefore, for the next match with Manchester City, Wang Shuai still decided to continue to use TF-BP tactics. In this season, this new tactic can be said to make Villa invincible, although in the second round of the league against Tottenham, the TF-BP tactic did not help Villa win, but the score of 1:2 is obviously much better than 2:5.

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After a 4-0 win over Stoke City and a 1-1 draw away to Vienna by the second-tier team, Villa won another draw at home.

At 2:2, Villa and Manchester City finally shook hands.

In this draw, Wang Shuai's tactics played a certain role, but another point is more important, not only Villa is a two-day double, but Manchester City is also the same.

Manchester City have been drawn in Group C of this season's Champions League group stage, along with Barcelona, Borussia Monchengladbach and Celtic. In this grouping situation, the first place in the group is destined to belong to Barcelona, and the remaining three teams will compete for the only remaining qualifying spot.

Indeed, after the four rounds of the group stage, Barcelona ranked first with 3 wins and 1 loss, Manchester City ranked second with 2 wins and 1 draw, Borussia Mönchen ranked third with 1 win and 1 draw, and Celtic was at the bottom with 2 draws and 2 losses. In the remaining two rounds of the group stage, Manchester City and Barcelona will play the other two teams once, which means that all four teams in Group C are likely to advance or be eliminated. So, whether it's to qualify or fight for the top spot in the group, Manchester City will have to give it their all in the remaining two group games.

At the same time as Villa's expedition to Austria, Manchester City also came to Germany. Although Borussia Mönchen is not as good as the Bundesliga hegemon Bayern Munich, they are still the top team in European football. Manchester City, even the slightest slight enemy, may capsize in the gutter and ruin their good qualifying situation.

However, Borussia Mönchen also worked tirelessly to qualify from the group, while dominating the home field, and Manchester City only brought home a 1-1 draw from Germany. Thankfully, another Barcelona clash with Celtic ended in a victory for Barcelona. This means that Barcelona have secured the top spot in the group one round earlier, Celtic have been eliminated one round earlier, and Manchester City only need a draw in the final round to guarantee qualification.

Back in England, exhausted Manchester City arrived in Birmingham non-stop to prepare for the twelfth round of the Premier League the next day. Villa's main squad did not participate in this round of the Europa League group stage, but Manchester City's main squad traveled to Germany. Such a gap in form doomed Manchester City to be even more difficult to get all three points on Villa. In fact, had it not been for a controversial penalty in the 79th minute, City's unbeaten run would have been ended by Villa.