Chapter 61: The Situation

In any league, there will be a hegemon, but this hegemon cannot dominate the league forever, there will always be a new team to squeeze them off the altar. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

For example, Huachao's Liangang Deshi, to Qilu Energy, and now Yangcheng Hengyuan.

For example, Manchester United in the Premier League, and then Chelsea.

For example, AC Milan in Serie A, and then Juventus.

However, not all teams can rise to the top of the league. Some were short-lived, like Leicester City. Some are always inferior, such as Borussia Dortmund, such as Atletico Madrid.

For example, Rome.

After being the second child for five or six years, the Romans also began to understand that their current strength is really no match for Juventus. So their goal now is no longer limited to the league title, but more to focus on other competitions. For example, domestic cups, such as European competitions.

Although Roma were knocked out of the Champions League play-offs this year, they have become one of the top teams in the Europa League and one of the seeded players. With such strength, the goal of the group stage is naturally to qualify for the top spot.

But what the Romans didn't know was that there was another team in the group with exactly the same goal, and that was Aston Villa.

Wang Shuai sees it very clearly, last season's successive victories over Liverpool, Tottenham and Manchester United, whether it was tactics or luck, at least it has shown that Villa has the strength to compete with these strong teams. And what about the strength of Rome? Just compare Serie A with the Premier League.

The first is the Champions League places. The annual quota for each European league in the Champions League is linked to European points. This point is complicated to calculate, but in simple terms, the better the league team performs in European competitions, the more European points this league has. Although this point is cumulative, it is not necessarily a good performance in the Champions League last season, and there must be more Champions League places this season, but at least it can reflect the average level of a league in recent years.

This season, the Premier League places are 4+1, that is, 4 group stage places, 1 play-off place, while Serie A is only 2+1. With such a comparison, it is easy to see that the average of the top teams in the Premier League is higher than that of Serie A.

Let's take a look at the head-to-head record between the two league teams. In last season's Champions League, the three Serie A Champions League teams were Juventus, Roma and Inter Milan. Juve have played Premier League sides four times, winning one and drawing one against Liverpool in the group stage, before meeting Chelsea in the quarter-finals and being eliminated 3-1 over two legs. Roma did not face a Premier League side in the group stage, but their opponents in the round of 16 were also Chelsea, who were eliminated 2-0 over two legs. Inter Milan was the worst, because they were promoted in the play-offs, they had no so-called protection mechanism, and were directly placed in the group of death, and only finished third in the group under the resistance of Barcelona and Tottenham. Then in the Europa League semi-finals, it was a two-legged 1:2 defeat to Manchester City in the Premier League.

Just looking at Villa's current opponent Roma, it can be intuitively analyzed that they are weaker than Chelsea. Based on the record between Villa and Chelsea last season, Roma's strength should be similar to Villa's.

However, in last season's European competition, Serie A teams lost to Premier League teams, and only Juventus saved a little face on Liverpool. Then looking at the rankings of the two leagues, the third place in Serie A is placed in the Premier League, and it is very likely that it will not even be able to enter the top four. That is to say, Roma's strength is not only weaker than Chelsea, but also has a gap with Tottenham. Of course, this Tottenham refers to Tottenham last season, not Tottenham after this season's reinforcements.

When you look at it this way, things are simple. Roma are weaker than Tottenham, with Villa winning last season. A> B, B > C, obviously A is greater than C, this is the logic content taught in elementary school mathematics.

It is precisely because of this that Wang Shuai is confident that if he meets Rome, Villa will not fall behind at all. Coupled with the fact that the other two teams in the group stage are cannon fodder players, the goal of the group stage is naturally to qualify for the top spot.

It's just that Wang Shuai also understands that when Villa and Rome meet, their side does have a better chance of winning, but it does not mean that the opponent has no chance of winning. You must know that in the first round of the group stage, not only Villa won the opponent, but Roma also brought home 4:0 from Plzen's home stadium. In this way, Roma also have a desire to win the group. So if Villa really want to qualify, they will have to go all out.

Then the question arises, who can be better in Rome and Villa, who are also going all out?

The answer, of course, is Vera.

This answer is not what Wang Shuai said, but an objective fact.

Wang Shuai himself has analyzed the strength comparison of the two teams, and in the case that Villa is stronger than the opponent, the rest can only depend on the on-the-spot performance. Looking at all the games of Wang Shuai in the past six years, whether it is Youzhou Institute of Technology or Aston Villa, there are definitely no more than ten games in which the team has played problematic.

Less than 10 games in six years, if you calculate an average of 40 games a year, the probability is less than 5%. This means that if Roma don't play too well, Villa have a win rate of more than 95%.

Some people may be about to ask, if it is counted like this all the time, doesn't it mean that as long as the team is not as strong as Vera, it will basically not be able to win against Vera?

Unfortunately, this is the case. With the blessing of Wang Shuai's bunch of perverted skills, opponents with comparable strength can be pulled below the normal level by Wang Shuai, and those teams whose strength is already weaker than Vera's can only widen the gap. In fact, Wang Shuai's team must have played more than ten games, but with the blessing of Wang Shuai's skills, even if the team's state is lost, Wang Shuai's various buffs can be well replenished. In such a situation, others, including the team's own players, can't feel that they are playing abnormally. And those so-called abnormal games are really too outrageous because of the lack of state, and Wang Shuai's anti-sky skills are powerless.

So, how can Roma win the game.

There is only one answer, miracles.

It's just that as I said before, the reason why a miracle is a miracle is because the probability of it happening is too small. What's more, the current situation is that because of the gap between the two teams, even if Roma plays extraordinarily, or Villa is not in form, Roma cannot guarantee a 100% victory. This shows how slim Roma's hopes of winning are.

It is a pity that the Romans themselves did not realize this. They are still at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome and are looking forward to their second Europa League victory.