Chapter 106: Winning streak

With a 2-0 win over Tottenham, the rest of Aston Villa's games in October will be insignificant. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Info's three league opponents are Newcastle, West Ham United and promoted Harddersfield Town, Villa will host Newcastle again in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals in mid-October, and in the third group stage of the Champions League at the end of October, Villa will travel to Russia to take on CSKA Moscow.

None of the opponents in these five games were strong, and despite the clash between the Champions League group stage and the 10th round of the Premier League, Wang Shuai believes that against Huddersfield, Wang will be able to win with a semi-substitute or even a full substitute lineup.

Indeed, with a 4-0 sweep over Newcastle, a 4-1 thrashing of West Ham United, and a 2-0 thrashing of Huddersfield Town on the semi-bench, Villa were on a three-game winning streak in the Premier League and the Europa League and Champions League when October was over.

Villa have started their 10-game winning streak at the end of the 10th round of the league and are two wins in the Premier League after two late wins last season, just two games short of Arsenal's record of 14 games.

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At the beginning of November, Villa hosted their 11th round of league opponents, Manchester City.

City's squad hasn't changed much this season, but their performances haven't been as dazzling as last season. After ten rounds of league matches, Blue Moon has seven wins, two draws and one loss, seven points behind Villa, ranking fifth in the standings, far less coquettish than last season, when they dominated the top spot for nearly half a season.

As mentioned earlier, Manchester City are not a traditional "English-style" team, but rather a playmaker like Barcelona who focus on midfielding. And with the experience of playing against Barcelona, Wang Shuai is not like last season, facing Manchester City but has nothing to do, this time, Wang Shuai once again sacrificed the killer weapon of "guerrilla tactics".

After knowing the physical defects of "guerrilla tactics", Wang Shuai played "decent" in the first half of the game, and when the first half ended, Villa and Manchester City still maintained the same starting line with a score of 1:1.

As soon as the second half began, Wang Shuai moved out of the "guerrilla tactics" and began to run wildly. Manchester City, who were caught off guard, conceded a goal immediately.

2:1!

After conceding the goal, Manchester City began to defend Wang Shuai in a targeted manner. It's just that Wang Shuai, who is more physical, is obviously not something that Manchester City's defenders can prevent, not to mention that even if the physical consumption of both sides is comparable, Manchester City's players may not be able to keep up with Wang Shuai. Thereupon......

3:1!

Villa, who led by two goals, was in high spirits, and then took advantage of the opponent's mistake in the 64th minute to play a wave of quick defensive counterattack, and Wang Shuai received David's bottom cross in the penalty area and scored with a header.

4:1!

In the first 20 minutes of the second half, Villa scored three goals in a row, Wang Shuai scored a hat-trick, and the game completely lost its suspense.

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The day after the 4-1 win over Manchester City, Villa welcomed CSKA Moscow at home, and because they had just finished a league game, Wang Shuai sent a semi-substitute line-up in this game, and then won 2-1. And Villa also won all four group games and successfully qualified for the group two rounds ahead of schedule.

After the Champions League group stage, Villa ushered in a break of nearly half a month. In this half month, Wang Shuai on the one hand let the players reserve physical fitness, and on the other hand, it was the final improvement of the improved TF-BP tactics.

On November 17, in the twelfth round of the Premier League, Villa hosted Bournemouth.

This game, although it is just an ordinary matchup between strength and weakness, is of great significance to both Wang Shuai and Villa.

On the one hand, this is the debut of the new TF-BP tactics, and whether the overall acceleration of the play can be successful or not still needs to be tested in actual combat, and today's opponent who is not very strong is obviously very suitable.

On the other hand, Villa's current winning streak in the league has reached 13, and if they win again, then Villa's Premier League winning streak will equal Arsenal's record of 14 consecutive games, which is of great significance for Villa and indeed the Premier League as a whole.

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The game itself was not difficult, with Villa beating their opponents 5-1, and it was the improved TF-BP tactics that made the difference.

After the acceleration of the whole group, Bournemouth's defense was completely decorated, and all five of Villa's goals came in the first half, which was an appalling attacking efficiency. However, behind the efficient attack, the improved TF-BP tactics also have a fatal weakness, that is, like the "guerrilla tactics", there are serious physical problems. So after the second half, Villa couldn't even play at a normal level, and instead of scoring again, they were scored by the opponent to save face.

Either way, the new TF-BP tactics have been considered a success, and the fitness issues are easy to solve, as long as you recharge your batteries in the first half and start running again in the second half, as you did against Manchester City before.

It was this solution that allowed Villa to win another opponent in the next round of the league.

On November 21, in the thirteenth round of the Premier League, Villa swept Arsenal 4:0 away.

Villa's new tactics have only been unveiled once, so they are still relatively new to the Premier League teams, so there is no way to talk about how to deal with them. In the first half of this game, Villa behaved very "normal", and Arsenal didn't feel anything wrong.

However, after the second half, Arsenal suddenly felt like they were facing a completely different opponent. In front of Aston Villa, who had accelerated all the time, Arsenal seemed to be completely unable to play at the beginning, and their fate was the same as that of Manchester City, and they were scored by Villa in the blink of an eye.

After that, although Arsenal began to play targeted defense, their defense was relatively weak and they could not keep up with Villa in terms of speed, and the goal was breached twice by Villa. Counting a corner scored by Villa in the first half, Arsenal were humiliated by a humiliating score of 4-0 at home.

Of course, after this game, no one cared about Arsenal, who lost so badly, and all eyes were on Villa.

Because of this victory, it is already Villa's fifteenth consecutive win in the Premier League, and the Premier League winning streak that has been sealed for two decades has been refreshed again.

The last one to hold a winning streak was Arsenal. As a result, in a game like today, the record he held was broken by the opponent, not to mention, and he was "humiliated" by the opponent who scored four goals, which has to be said to be a kind of irony.