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0:2, with home advantage, Roma still lost the game.

Although the score gap is not huge, a loss is a loss, Villa took the three points, and Roma stood still.

This victory is not unexpected, and Wang Shuai, who can get all kinds of data from the system, clearly knows this. With no grandmasters in the whole team, it is too difficult to beat the current Villa. What's more, Villa, who has developed new tactics, is now playing more steadily, which makes it impossible for Roma to seize the opponent's defensive holes.

This is also thanks to the fact that Roma is also a strong team, and the defensive strength is not weak, which did not allow Villa to play an embarrassing score.

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After starting the European journey, Wang Shuai hated the four-front battle more and more.

After the second game of the Europa League group stage, the whole Villa team flew to Merseyside in the north-west of England without having time to celebrate the victory. Because on the second day, the sixth round of the Premier League will start, and Aston Villa will face Everton away.

Speaking of this Merseyside Everton, we have to mention the Merseyside derby.

There are three major city derbies in the Premier League, Arsenal and Chelsea in London, Manchester United and Manchester City in Manchester, and Liverpool and Everton in Merseyside.

Interestingly, the jersey colors of these three groups are red and blue. And Everton is Merseyside's blue team.

Wang Shuai still remembers that there was a well-known football game in the original world, Pro Evolution Soccer, also known as Victory 11. This game is produced by the island country, but it has not been authorized by the Premier League, so I have no choice but to change the names of the teams in the Premier League. Everton and Liverpool are named after the place name and the color of the jersey, Merseaside-Blue and Merseaside-Red respectively.

Unlike the other two city derbies, the difference in quality between Everton and Liverpool is not small. In terms of historical honours alone, Liverpool has more than doubled the number of titles in all competitions than Everton. Looking at the team's results in recent years, Everton has not won any top-level titles for 26 years, and there is no comparison with Liverpool.

The reason why the Merseyside derby can be ranked as one of the three major city derbies in England is more because of historical factors. In 1892, 14 years after Everton's founding, the club's shareholders had a dispute over dividends. As a result of the dispute, some of the shareholders left Everton to start a new business and form Everton's great neighbours, Liverpool. It is conceivable that the shareholders who remain at Everton will do it differently if they know that the outcome of the dispute is to create a formidable rival for themselves.

Although the difference in quality between the two teams is not small, it is undeniable that Everton has always been a powerhouse in the Premier League. The two peaks of Everton's history were around World War II and the 80s, with 80 per cent of the team's trophies won during these two periods. And although Everton have yet to win any titles since the turn of the millennium, they have also retained their European qualification for many years. For that alone, most Premier League teams can only look up to Everton.

However, the current Aston Villa is clearly not among them.

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Last season, Everton climbed to sixth place by one point over Manchester United and secured their final Europa League group stage ticket. According to this, Everton's strength is similar to that of Manchester United. And in last season's Carabao Cup final, Villa won against Manchester United, and it was not difficult to win.

On the other hand, at the beginning of the season, Wang Shuai looked at the squad strength of various teams in the Premier League, and not only found that Everton's strength did not rise (compared with Manchester United last season), but also after the game against Roma, Everton's strength was not as good as Rome.

However, just when Wang Shuai was full of confidence in the confrontation between the two teams, this season's schedule gave him a slap in the face.

The sixth round of the Premier League is on the second day of the Europa League group stage.

What's even sadder is that both of Villa's games are away from home, or away from both countries.

So, after arriving at Merseyside, the state of the Villa players can be imagined.

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This is Aston Villa's second consecutive away trip this season, but the situation was not so dire last time, because neither of the two opponents was a strong team, and Wang Shuai can also guarantee victory with a rotating lineup.

But this time it's different, one Roma, one Everton, no matter which team, Villa will have to send a full squad if they want to win easily.

And the current situation obviously does not allow Wang Shuai to do this.

Last season, Villa suffered an injury absence at the end of the year due to fatigue, and the difficult period is still fresh in the king's memory.

This year, in the more competitive Premier League, coupled with the European competition, Wang Shuai can't imagine the trouble caused by the injury of the main team.

Fortunately, the average age of the current Villa main squad has been reduced, and the physical reserves are much more abundant than last season. Therefore, in this showdown with Everton, Wang Shuai does not need to change the starting lineup. It's just that in the second half of the game, Wang Shuai's substitution adjustment must be advanced, and this is bound to leave Everton with a chance.

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When it came time for the game to really come, Wang Shuai found that he was still overly optimistic.

Although Villa's fitness is much better than last season, it is only relatively. Two consecutive days of away games still caused a lot of problems for the form of the Villa players.

The power, the speed, the control of the ball, not even the average.

And all this happened less than 30 minutes into the first half.

Fortunately, Wang Shuai had anticipated these possible problems, and launched a concentrated attack at the beginning of the game and successfully scored a goal, which did not let Villa fall into passivity.

It's just that Wang Shuai also knows that the state problem must be solved as soon as possible, otherwise in the second half, it is not impossible for Everton to turn defeat into victory.

So after the physical fitness of his teammates began to decline sharply, Wang Shuai directly gave the order to shrink the defense, after all, compared with the offense, the physical energy consumed by the defense is much smaller.

Everton did not react to Villa's sudden tactical changes, and by the time they started organising their attacks, there were only ten minutes left in the first half. That's another advantage of Villa, the manager is on the pitch and if you want to make tactical adjustments, it's really something that can be done in minutes. And compared with the coach who gave tactical instructions on the sidelines, Wang Shuai's tactical adjustment was obviously much more detailed.

In such a situation, even if Everton wanted to make a difference, the rest of the first half was not enough, after all, Villa's solid backline is not something they can break down casually. Villa also managed to maintain a 1-0 lead until halftime.