While Manchester United won a draw, Tottenham beat Reading 4-1 at home, taking advantage of Manchester United to move up to second place in the table. Fortunately www.biquge.info Liverpool drew 3-3 with Everton in the Merseyside derby on another field, Manchester United is still 3 points ahead of Liverpool, and at the same time has a goal difference advantage of 6 points, it can be said that Manchester United has retained its top three positions one round in advance.

In contrast, the competition for the next few places is much more intense.

Liverpool have won a draw and remain in fourth place, but Manchester City beat Chelsea 1-0 in this round of the league to level Liverpool on points and currently sit in fifth place on goal difference. Chelsea, who are three points behind Liverpool in sixth place, are no longer in the final round of games after losing this game, which means that the Blues have already decided to miss next season's Champions League one round earlier.

Not only that, but in the other game, Arsenal beat Watford 3-1, and Arsenal also took advantage of it to overtake Chelsea by two points to move up to sixth place, and the Blues fell to seventh place.

Fortunately, eighth-placed Southampton are five points clear of Chelsea, meaning that the top seven teams for the season have already been decided. In the FA Cup final a week later, the two sides Aston Villa and Manchester City have already determined the identity of the top five in the league in advance, and in the League Cup that ended three months ago, Villa won the championship again, so the sixth and seventh teams in the Premier League this season have also qualified for the Europa League next season in advance. The only difference is whether Chelsea can return to sixth place with the final round of the league and upgrade the Europa League play-offs to the main stage.

Of course, the battle for the Premier League places, Champions League and Europa League qualification is none of Villa's business, and they don't have time to focus on it, because after the penultimate round of the league, this season's FA Cup final is about to begin.

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Wembley Stadium.

This is the third time Villa have faced the Blues this season, with one win and one draw in the first two meetings, and that draw was due to Villa's poor form just out of the Champions League. Therefore, it can be said that Villa have an absolute advantage in this game.

In fact, Wang Shuai also thinks so, whether it is the team's book strength or the tactics executed in the game, Villa has steadily suppressed the opponent. And Manchester City's technical and tactical play is very similar to Villa's opponent Barcelona in the Champions League final, so Wang Shuai simply regarded this game as a warm-up game before the Champions League final.

For Aston Villa, who has faintly become the hegemon of the Premier League, this game is naturally not difficult at all, and in the first half's "decent" style of play, Villa has already taken a 1:0 lead. In the second half, Villa's tactics began to accelerate, and the score was expanded to 3:0, and the game lost suspense early, and Villa easily won their fifth championship trophy this season.

It's just that Villa, who has won five titles, did not celebrate too much, but hurried to fly to Cardiff, the capital of Wales, to prepare for the Champions League final four days later.

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When it comes to Wales, Wang Shuai's first thought is naturally the star of the original world, Bale, who is famous for his amazing speed and "Bayesian arc". It's just that after he really arrived in Wales, what impressed Wang Shuai the most became the Welsh "dialect".

As early as nearly three years ago, when he came to England, the system automatically supplemented Wang Shuai's English skills, and with the general existence of the system bug, it is not an exaggeration to say that Wang Shuai's English level is the first in the world.

It's just that this English skill refers to authentic "official" English, just like Mandarin in China, and the English of other places, including American English, Wang Shuai has not yet mastered, let alone Wales, which is known for its strange pronunciation.

Moreover, the "language pack" provided by the system only includes grammar and vocabulary, not speaking and listening, so it took more than two years for Wang Shuai, who corrected his English pronunciation, to his first feeling after coming to Wales:

Is this really English?!

And when Wang Shuai told the rest of the team about this distress, these people also smiled bitterly. Those of them who have lived in England for more than 20 Chinese New Year's Eve have difficulty listening to "Welsh", let alone the "newcomer" Wang Shuai.

Fortunately, the team has a dedicated person in charge of all the logistics matters, and Villa's stay in Wales is only for a few days, so not being able to understand the dialect does not affect the preparation for the game.

Four days later, the Champions League final for the 2022-2023 season was held as scheduled at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, the national stadium in Wales.

(Author's note: Wales is the Principality of Wales and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Wales is one of the political entities of the United Kingdom, so it is not wrong to call Wales a "country".) ）

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The current Barcelona is almost exactly the same as the Barcelona team in the UEFA Super Cup at the beginning of the season. The same three master strikers, the same master midfielder, the only difference is that Barcelona coach Ochilles changed the two-back formation to a two-striker formation.

After knocking out arch-rivals Real Madrid to reach the Champions League final, O'Chile has been thinking about how to deal with Villa.

In the UEFA Super Cup at the beginning of the season, Wang Shuai scored two goals in the first half by himself, directly creating the basis for Villa's victory. And if Wang Shuai was the only one, Ochlerus asked himself if he still had a way to deal with it.

However, Villa have developed an accelerated version of the TF-BP tactic this season, which has made Ochilles miserable.

Barcelona are not slow, but this is limited to the midfield, or three strikers, and the attacking players in midfield are more focused on organising the ball, and the pace of the defence is even slower.

And Barcelona is originally a team with strong attack and weak defense, so it is not very reliable to resist Villa's attack like Juventus or Chelsea. So in the face of Villa, who are more than a star and a half faster than at the beginning of the season, Ochilles really has no effective means to deal with it.

As a result, Ochilles is ready to play a matchup with Villa, which is why he changed his back two to two strikers.

And since it is necessary to play against the attack, it is natural that the team cannot wait for the team to "slow down" as usual, and O'Chiles gave the team instructions to attack with all their strength before the game began.

So, as soon as the game began, Villa and Barcelona staged a scene of Mars hitting the Earth.