After beating Newcastle United, Aston Villa remain firmly at the top of the table. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 At the same time, Huddersfield Town and Barnsley also lost in the ninth round of the league, and the gap with Villa widened to six points, which can be described as a double happiness. The second place in the standings is now occupied by Norwich, with 6 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss, with a 4-point gap to Villa.

After the ninth round of the Championship, Aston Villa's month-long busy schedule has come to an end. After a week's rest, Villa also face Leeds United in the second round of the Carabao Cup.

Leeds United Football Club is the only professional football club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. For the first 60 years of its existence, Leeds United hovered between the top flight and the second division, until the 60s, when Leeds United reached their heyday, winning two top-flight titles, one FA Cup and one League Cup, before declining again.

It wasn't until the end of the last century that Leeds United had a second spring, winning a top-flight title in a decade, reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League, and then being relegated to the Championship again in the 03-04 season. With the decline in the team's strength, the club's economic situation has not improved, which has made the team even worse in the league, and was punished by the FA in the 06-07 and 07-08 seasons with a deduction of league points, and Leeds United was relegated from the Championship again. It wasn't until the 09-10 season that they returned to the second tier after a three-year hiatus, and since then Leeds United have stabilized in the middle of the Championship, with no relegation worries or ambitions to overtake, and the club's hierarchy seems to be content with the status quo and has not made any major moves.

Leeds United, who currently sit 12th in the league table, have brought their lazy form to the cup competition as well. In the last round of the Carabao Cup, Leeds United hosted a League One side Fleetwood and played 120 minutes before exchanging 12-yard shots. Facing such a team with no strength and no belief in winning, Wang Shuai once again turned the game into tactical training.

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On October 9, the day after the second round of the League Cup, Wang Shuai was watching the video of the first day's game with all the players in Aston Villa's tactical room.

"Greenhouse, look at this pass, your run is half a beat slower, so you're out of position after you receive the ball."

"Laurie, your ball is too slow."

"David, you and the two of them are just the opposite, you ran through. The consequence of catching the ball with your back is that you lose the opportunity to keep pushing forward, just like this ball. ”

In this game, Villa always executed only one tactic, the arc formation. In the last game against Newcastle, Wang Shuai thought that the arc formation was already perfect, but it exposed a big problem. After watching the video of this League Cup, Wang Shuai finally found out what the problem was.

Tacit understanding.

There will always be more or less errors in the coordination between the passer and the receiver.

In previous games, such errors were not easy to find, and did not have any impact on the results of the game, in fact, Wang Shuai has always believed that this kind of error is inevitable, after all, it is impossible to achieve 100% accuracy in passing. However, in the face of a higher-level team like Newcastle, these errors are infinitely magnified, and even completely block the team's attack, which is not explained by the inaccurate passing in the past.

Fortunately, Wang Shuai found out the problem in time, and they still have a week to correct these mistakes.

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A week later, on October 15th.

In the tenth round of the Championship, Aston Villa challenged Barnsley away.

Barnsley are not a strong team, having last played in the top flight in the last century, finishing sixth in League One and qualifying for the Championship through the play-offs last season. It's just that this season they suddenly made a move, not only signing a senior professional striker Lucas, but also bringing in a head coach who focuses on attacking football, Hexis, which has greatly improved their attacking strength, and is currently second only to Aston Villa in the Championship scoring list, which is the best proof.

It's just that compared to the offensive end, Barnsley's defensive ability is really miserable, and the team that ranks fifth in the table actually ranks eighth in the Championship in terms of goals conceded. Wang Shuai also came up with a strategy for this game, that is, to attack, after all, in terms of offensive efficiency, Aston Villa is confident that it will not be worse than its opponent, not to mention that Barnsley's defensive strength is not comparable to Villa at all.

Now the only question is whether the team's arc formation proficiency has improved again after this half a month of tactical training, whether it can be qualified for the offensive task of this game.

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"Toot ~!"

Once the game began, Barnsley unsurprisingly launched an onslaught, which was their unbeatable weapon this season.

Wang Shuai specially learned about the player Lucas before the game. In terms of attributes, although Lucas is a senior professional player, he belongs to the kind of "biased" type of player, with an accuracy of 181, skill of 171, and speed of 156, and the strength and strength attributes do not meet the standard of 150 for senior professional players, and he was promoted to the advanced professional level with more than 170 accuracy and skill.

It's just that Wang Shuai's expression was a little dignified after seeing the accuracy attribute of 181. Because Wang Shuai has already known from his level task that 180 is already the standard for master players. So far, Wang Shuai has only met two master players, both from Barcelona, the opponent of Wang Shuai in the Club World Cup two years ago, and Wang Shuai still remembers the horror of this kind of player. Now Lucas's accuracy is also up to the master standard, and once he finds a shot on goal, Villa's goal will be in jeopardy. Fortunately, Lucas's strength attribute is not up to standard, which means that he has no long-range firepower, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.

Despite Lucas's horrific shot, Wang Shuai came up with a countermeasure, which was to reduce Lucas's chances of touching the ball. After all, no matter how accurate the accuracy is, it is useless to miss the ball and shoot.

As a result, Barnsley encountered problems in the first round of attack, their midfielders could not find a chance to pass the ball to Lucas, and Villa's two defenders have been defending Lucas in front of them, not to mention that they can't pass the ball, even if they pass, it is estimated to be an offside foul, and this is also the defensive tactic arranged by Wang Shuai.

Two minutes later, Barnsley, who had been on the ground in midfield, still made a mistake, after all, the quality level of their players except Lucas is also the level of the middle of the league, which made the defensive task of Villa's midfield much easier.

After grabbing the ball, Villa's arc formation also took shape instantly, and the actual combat test of this half-month tactical training finally began.