The biggest problem with offensive football is that the defense will be relatively weak, which is also the problem that Tottenham has been criticized by fans. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 But Tottenham, as a top team in the Premier League, is only weak in their defensive line compared to those teams in the same level, as for other teams, even some teams in the middle and upper reaches of the Premier League, it is difficult to easily penetrate the Tottenham defense.

However, Tottenham manager Pacio would never have imagined that Aston Villa, a Championship team, would pose a threat to Tottenham's goal in the first leg of the attack. Prior to this game, Pacio only knew that Villa were top of the Championship, and he also knew that the level of the first team in the Championship was not at the bottom of the Premier League. Therefore, in this game, Pacio sent a full main lineup, and he felt that such a lineup had attached great importance to the team of Villa, but the result was still beyond Pacio's expectations.

A month ago, in Aston Villa's game against Liverpool, Reds boss Patrice only focused on Villa's defensive ability, but today Pacio clearly looked further. Defensively, needless to say, the previous clean sheet against Liverpool is the best proof of strength. On the offensive side, fullback David and midfielder Zhou Aniu, these two have excellent long-pass ability and can always accurately transfer football to the frontcourt players. Strikers Wu Shi and Tres (renamed Ibrahimovic, see Chapter 32 of Volume 2, which will not be noted later), their footwork has reached the level of first-class strikers in the Premier League. Finally, there is Wang Shuai, the defense can completely limit Falma, and at the same time can break through and pass the ball on the offensive end, and shoot at the goal, in the current advocating offensive football, such an all-round midfielder is already rare.

And what scares Pacio the most is that these players look too young, the three Chinese players are also in their early twenties, and David and Tres are more like youth team players. Pacio has no doubt that these players will go on to become superstars. A Championship team can have five players with quality and potential, and if these players can stay at Aston Villa for the next few years, then Villa's future will be limitless.

This reminded Pacio of the 2015-16 season, when Leicester City, who were promoted from the Championship, won the title in their first season in the Premier League. The strength shown by Aston Villa today, if nothing else, will definitely be promoted to the Premier League this year, and next season, even if their results are not as good as Leicester City, at least they can be ranked in the middle of the league, and it is not impossible to even try to qualify for Europe.

And it is this Aston Villa team that could grow into the top team in the Premier League in the next few years that has exposed Tottenham's biggest weakness. It's just that after nearly thirty minutes of play, Pacio smiled. He found Aston Villa's first attack a bit too much to think about, and in the more than 20 minutes of the game after the formation was shrunk, Villa's attack did not pose much of a threat to the Tottenham defence.

"It's just a Championship team after all." Pacio thought.

So, in the 28th minute, after Aston Villa failed to attack again, Pacio gave the team instructions to attack. With less than 20 minutes to go until the end of the first half, Tottenham were able to keep the attack going until half-time without worrying about fitness. And even if Villa can take advantage of the opportunity to play an effective counter-attack, there is not much time left in the first half, and Pacio is confident that he will hold on to the current draw until half-time, and even Tottenham will likely take the lead. If that's the case, the game will be too favourable for Tottenham.

Tottenham's players were also relieved to see Pacio's attacking instructions, especially the three midfielders. Although they are all top senior professional players, they are short and long, and Tottenham's three midfielders are more attacking and less defensive.

In the past half an hour, they really felt a little powerless against Wang Shuai's defense, not to mention that David on the side was not so easy to deal with. Although David has only just been promoted to a mid-level professional player, his long balls are so accurate that Tottenham's midfield is overwhelmed. In addition to David, these three midfielders also have the task of supplementing Wu Shi and Ibrahimovic. Wu Shi is okay, no different from other strikers. But Ibrahimovic is too evil, every shot is so unbelievable, and the deflection is still very accurate. This left the players who were marking him to be kept on high levels of tension as they really didn't know when Ibrahimovic's next shot would be.

Now that Pacio has made tactical adjustments, Tottenham's three midfielders are really relaxed, and finally they don't have to defend against those difficult opponents. As for the next defensive mission? Leave it to the defenders and good luck to them. Despite being unkind, the three midfielders thought the same thing.

But it soon became clear to the three midfielders that they no longer had to worry about their defenders.

Tottenham's tactical adjustment was so sudden that Wang Shuai didn't react. In fact, this is not to blame him, no matter which team it is, the adjustment of tactics is gradual, and it will not be said that there will be a contraction of defense all of a sudden. It's just that Tottenham's three strikers have not been involved in the defense much and have stayed in the midfield. The three midfielders had been holding back long enough, and now they finally had the opportunity to attack, and they directly turned their grievances into motivation and organized an efficient attack.

In the 28th minute, Famar and Epps alternated possession and advancement, with two wingers, Laconi and Gibbs, on the sidelines. This is a tactic similar to the arc formation, although it is slightly faster in terms of speed, but the stability of possession is not as good as that of the arc formation. It's just that now Aston Villa's defensive formation is too open, so the ball has been kept at Tottenham's feet.

Seeing that the attacking formation had penetrated into the opposition penalty area, Farma, who was in possession of the ball, passed the ball to left winger Laconi, who received the ball and strode to the bottom line before passing it sideways.

It's just that this cross was just a feint by Laconi, after deceiving Villa's full-back Vincent, Laconi smashed the ball and turned around, burst directly into the penalty area, and then knocked the ball to center forward Igor when central defender Connor stepped forward to make up for it.

Fortunately, Colin, another central defender of Villa, has been defending Igor, and when he saw Laconi's pass, Colin directly stretched out his foot and poked the ball out, and there was no foul.

Unfortunately, Wang Shuai and Zhou Aniu have been keeping an eye on Farma and Epps, neither of whom has been able to receive Colin's broken ball, and the football has drilled directly between the two, and it is Tottenham's defender Grigor who finally gets the ball.

Tottenham Hotspur is a team that advocates attacking football, and their midfielders are also attacking, and Grigor is a heavy gunner with excellent long-range shooting ability.

Grigor received the ball in the first two positions at the top of the box, which was exactly within his range. So Grigor didn't think much about it, followed the force of the football rolling, and sent a powerful shot directly without stopping the ball.

Boom!

The football flew past Zhou Aniu and Eps, and flew in an arc towards the corner of the goal. And Villa's goalkeeper Cassel's vision happened to be blocked by these two people, and by the time he reacted, it was too late to save the ball.

Brush!

1:0！

Tottenham were the first to score at home.