After six consecutive league wins, Villa, who have a breakthrough momentum, once again met a strong opponent, Tottenham. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Last season, Tottenham became the biggest joke in the entire Premier League.

Spending almost 200 million euros at the start of the season, the first half of the season was up and down, and although the second half improved, it only finished sixth in the league. If it weren't for the FA Cup and League Cup, with Aston Villa and Chelsea both finishing in the top five in the league, and Tottenham not even qualifying for this season's Europa League, it would be the greatest irony of the money they spent.

But it is undeniable that even if Tottenham's results are not ideal, their book strength is among the top in the entire Premier League. And after a full season of running in the squad, Tottenham's record at the start of the season was just as good.

In the league, Tottenham beat Brighton 3-0 to get the new season off to a good start, followed by a narrow 1-0 win over rival Chelsea, and despite being held to a 1-1 draw by Leicester City in the fifth round of the league, Tottenham still has an unbeaten record of five wins and one draw in six league games, and is currently second in the table behind Villa.

In the League Cup, Tottenham first swept the Championship team Fulham 4-0, and then beat Everton 2-0 to advance to the round of 16. In the group stage of the Europa League, Tottenham also easily won both games.

In the second half of last season, Tottenham's upward momentum was already on display, and looking at this season's results, it undoubtedly shows that Tottenham are at their peak.

With Liverpool and Arsenal not running in and Chelsea and Manchester United's attacking teams not improving, there are only three favourites left for this year: Aston Villa, Manchester City, and Tottenham.

Now, two of those teams have met.

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At 3 p.m. on October 1, at White Hart Lane Stadium, the seventh round of the English Premier League, Aston Villa's away game against Tottenham officially started.

Tottenham are a standard 'English-style' team, which means that they mainly use long balls to rush and then push forward with the physical attributes of their midfielders. Tottenham's master striker Floniti is a technical player, which is obviously incompatible with Tottenham's team tactics, and it is precisely because of this that Floniti's performance last season was very sluggish.

So this season, in order to give full play to the best power of Floniti, the head coach of Tottenham assigned him a new task, that is, "guerrilla tactics".

The so-called "guerrilla tactics" are actually similar to Wang Shuai's tactical play in the game between Villa and Barcelona. That is, to use the advantage of skill and speed at his feet, interspersing back and forth on the opponent's back line to find opportunities, and at the same time can disrupt the opponent's defense.

It has to be said that the "guerrilla tactics" are really powerful. From the outset, Flonetti posed a huge threat to Villa's backline. In less than 10 minutes, Flonetti had already delivered two precise through balls, and if it weren't for Villa's young defender Dean's quick reaction to defuse the danger, Villa's goal would have been breached.

It's just that Wang Shuai also saw through the intentions of Floniti, or the Tottenham manager, at this time. Then, Wang Shuai sneered and withdrew to the midfield and began to participate in the defense.

After using such a tactic in the game against Barcelona once, Wang Shuai is certainly very clear about the advantages and disadvantages of this "guerrilla tactic". Although the "guerrilla tactic" can fully interfere with the opponent's defense, the physical consumption of the players who perform this tactic is also enormous. It can be said that as long as the opponent team can withstand the attack in the first half, then the situation in the second half can definitely be reversed.

Thankfully, Tottenham have played a few games this season, including two games against Chelsea and Leicester City. Against Chelsea, Tottenham took the lead in the first half and held it until the end. Leicester City, on the other hand, only relied on a set-piece to equalize in the final stoppage time.

In such a situation, Floniti did not play to his full strength at all, so he did not suffer from excessive physical exertion in the second half. It can be said that in the eyes of Floniti and Tottenham Hotspur managers, the current "guerrilla tactics" are still flawless.

So, this gave Wang Shuai, or Villa, a chance.

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After discovering Floniti's tactical play, Wang Shuai withdrew to the position of the midfielder.

There is no way, Zhou Aniu, who was opposite Floniti, was originally restrained by the other party in terms of technical style, and now after Floniti implemented the "guerrilla tactics", Zhou Aniu was completely pressed and beaten, so Wang Shuai could only come back to guard Floniti by himself and let Zhou Aniu change to his previous position.

Compared with Flonitty, although Wang Shuai's attributes are slightly lower, he has the bonus of various system skills, whether it is speed or foot skills, Wang Shuai has the upper hand faintly. And in such a situation, Floniti is completely reduced to an ornament.

Originally, Floniti played a very big role in the connection between the midfield and the midfield last season, although the technical and tactical style did not match the team, but as a master striker, Flonetti still played a very big role in the connection of the midfield.

And now, when Floniti was restrained by Wang Shuai, Tottenham's midfield was cut off.

Of course, Tottenham's midfielders are certainly not the only one in Floniti, there is also another central midfielder, Harris, and a midfielder Nantes.

Harris is a complete power player, and after Zhou Aniu and Wang Shuai switched defenses, Harris was also classified as Zhou Aniu's defensive range. Compared with Zhou Aniu, Harris is simply "thin" and pitiful, so the central midfielder is also completely restricted.

Then Tottenham's only remaining means of diverting football is the long ball rush. But with Zhou Aniu and Wang Shuai sitting in the midfield, the air supremacy is obviously firmly controlled by Vera.

As a result, Tottenham's attack was completely dumbfounded. And in order to alleviate the team's current unfavorable situation, Floniti also began to really fire at full power and run at full speed.

After seeing this scene, Wang Shuai finally smiled.

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Floniti ran very hard, but he was only one person after all, and he couldn't turn the tide, not to mention that behind him, Wang Shuai had been following him like a shadow.

And in such a situation, Tottenham's attack has not been able to open up the situation.

Fortunately, Wang Shuai also stayed in the midfield and did not step forward to participate in the attack, so until the end of the first half, the score was still 0:0.

At halftime, the first thing Wang Shuai did was to open the system interface to check Floniti's physical state.

Mental Attributes 47.

After seeing this number, Wang Shuai was relieved. As he expected, Floniti was almost exhausted after running at full speed for the entire first half.

Floniti did run too hard, and when he got back to the locker room, he was the most gasping of all.

At this time, neither Floniti himself nor the manager of Tottenham Hotspur have yet to realize the seriousness of the problem. What they are anxious about now is how to open up the existing situation after the previously invincible "guerrilla tactics" have failed.

It's just that in the face of Villa, who has two great gods Wang Shuai and Zhou Aniu sitting in the midfield, Tottenham really doesn't have a good way, and they can only stand up to the scalp now.

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At the beginning of the second half, Wang Shuai did not immediately organize the team's attack, but wanted to see if there were any changes in Tottenham's tactics. If the tactics have not changed, of course, it is the best, Tottenham did not play an effective attack in the entire first half, and now that Floniti is too consumed, they are even less likely to pose a threat to Villa's defense, and Villa's side only needs to wait for Floniti's physical strength to be completely exhausted, and then counterattack in one fell swoop, and end the battle with a "wave".

And if Tottenham had changed tactics and Flonetti had started to retreat to "rest", the previous idea would certainly not work. Of course, even so, Villa still has a physical advantage, so the second half is good for a "normal game", but in this way, it will be much more difficult for Villa to win this game.

Thankfully, Floniti was still running tirelessly.

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After a quarter of an hour, Froniti stopped running, and he found that he could not run.

After being cut off the ball by Wang Shuai again, Floniti put his hands on his knees and gasped, and then made a gesture to the coach's bench on the sidelines to ask for a substitution, he was too tired.

However, to Flonitty's surprise, the coach did not give any due response to his request for substitutions, but kept waving his arms at his own backcourt, and then shouted:

"Defense~! Defend~~~!!! ”

Floniti didn't know why, Villa hadn't attacked much before, and he thought it was the same now. It's just that when he followed the direction of the coach's waving arms and looked at the backcourt, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Villa's two forwards plus four midfielders have now all run past the halfway, and even the two full-backs are ready to respond at the halfway point, while Floniti himself is still "resting" in the opponent's backfield and is not involved in the defense at all.

Of course, even if he wants to defend now, he can't catch up.

Thanks to the results of these two months of training, Villa's attack was quite fast, and in the blink of an eye, a situation of more local play and less was formed, and in such a situation......

Brush!

0:1！

Home and away, Villa lead away.

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This time the chance of a dead goal, Floniti was still replaced.

On the one hand, it is due to the fact that he really has no physical strength.

On the other hand, his performance in this game was terrible. Not to mention the weakness of the offense, I even forgot to defend just now.

Looking at Floniti who walked back to the bench in a dejected manner, the Tottenham Hotspur manager who wanted to open his mouth to curse took back the words that came to his lips. He also knew that Flonitty's poor performance was not only due to his own factors, but also in terms of tactical response, physical control, and timing of counter-attacks, and Villa did a great job.

So, the Tottenham manager took more than just Flonetti back and looked back at the field, thinking of a way to turn the situation around.

As mentioned before, Tottenham are a standard 'English-style' team, with the exception of Flonetti, the entire Tottenham squad is almost entirely physical or strength-oriented. And Wang Shuai and Zhou Aniu obviously have a great advantage in physical fitness, although Tottenham has a new one with full physical strength, but after all, he is a substitute player, and he has physical strength but no strength, so the advantage of the game is still in the hands of Villa.

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After Floniti left the field, the "guerrilla tactics" on the field did not stop, but it was Wang Shuai who implemented this tactic.

And after Wang Shuai defended the entire first half, he still has a lot of physical reserves, so he is not only "running back and forth" on Tottenham's backline, but also taking into account Villa's defense at the same time. In such a situation, Tottenham's attack is still weak, and Villa have repeatedly attacked Tottenham's goal.

In the 73rd minute, Wang Shuai appeared again on the left side, and after making a two-over-one collision with Ribery, he "sent" Ribery to the front, while he himself turned and inserted diagonally into the penalty area.

Ribery successfully broke through Tottenham's wide defense with the help of Wang Shuai's cooperation, looked up at the situation in the penalty area, and then sent the ball to the head of Ibrahimovic accurately.

After Wang Shuai's "targeted training", Ibrahimovic's header is no longer his weakness, and even with his height advantage, header has become one of Ibrahimovic's effective scoring methods. And now at this time, Ibrahimovic easily succeeded in the battle for the top and ferried the football to Wang Shuai, who had been inserted into the penalty area at the back.

The biggest advantage of being physically fit is that it can give Wang Shuai an advantage in speed, so after Ibrahimovic's header ferry, Wang Shuai is in the vacancy where the opponent's defense is not yet in place.

So, Wang Shuai took advantage of the situation to complete the volley, and the football drew a weird "S" arc and went straight to the far corner of the goal.

Tottenham's goalkeeper, despite making a save, ultimately failed to judge the flight path of the ball.

Brush!

Ball in!

0:2！

Home and away, Villa extended their lead again.

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After taking a two-goal lead, Wang Shuai no longer ran so hard.

Although he had reserved excess physical energy in the first half, at this time of the game, he had been running for so long a day, and now Wang Shuai's physical strength was about to bottom out.

As a result, Villa, who had a two-goal advantage, once again switched to a defensive strategy.

Tottenham, on the other hand, has always been led by Villa. After 45 minutes of ineffective attack in the first half, Villa were forced to switch to defense after starting the attack in the second half, but they were still twice broken by their opponents. And now Villa has switched to the defensive, and Tottenham can only start attacking again.

It's just that Tottenham's attack is no threat to Villa's defence, not to mention that they are now exhausted.

And what awaits Tottenham is also destined to be a 0:2 home defeat.