"This is a historic moment!"

At the post-match press conference, Wang Shuai talked with a smile on his face. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and his counterpart, Joseph on the other side of the table was expressionless. If it wasn't a Carabao Cup final, if he wasn't representing Manchester United, Joseph, who lost the game, wouldn't have been there at the press conference.

"After 24 years, Aston Villa have lifted the Carabao Cup trophy again, and after years of silence, I can say out loud that Villa are back!"

Listening to Wang Shuai's words, the corners of Joseph's mouth twitched imperceptibly. Manchester United have also been silent for several years, and they have not won a trophy for many years, and as a result, the only title this season is close at hand, and they have given it to their opponents.

'It's an honour to be able to lead the team to the top competition in England in my first year at Villa. I am even more honoured to be able to share the championship with my teammates in my first year at Villa! ”

The corners of Joseph's mouth twitched again. This is also his first year at Manchester United, and as a result, Wang Shuai has already won a title, and he has not won anything yet.

'After successive wins over Liverpool, Tottenham and Manchester United, we are more confident for the next round of the FA Cup. We're going to give it our all against Chelsea and try to go far in the FA Cup! ”

Joseph couldn't listen anymore. Although he knows that Wang Shuai's words are somewhat official, Villa's opponent is Chelsea! Now Chelsea is at the top of the Premier League, just beat Arsenal 3-1 in the league, 9 points ahead of second-place Tottenham Hotspur, even Manchester United is difficult to match, as a result, Wang Shuai came to the sentence "I hope to go further in the FA Cup"?!

Not only Joseph, but also the media reporters present also noticed Wang Shuai's "arrogance". Although the vast majority of these media outlets today are neutral and have no special feelings for Aston Villa, this does not prevent them from writing Wang Shuai's words into their press releases and then commenting on them.

That evening, The Times, one of the three major newspapers in the United Kingdom, published a report on its official website.

"Upset! Aston Villa win the Carabao Cup and the manager threatens to beat Chelsea! 》――

'Aston Villa won the 2020-2021 Carabao Cup this afternoon with a 2-1 win over Manchester United at Wembley Stadium. This is Villa's first top-level championship trophy in 24 years, and it is also the first championship trophy won by Wang Shuai, the manager who just joined Villa this year.

While coaching Aston Villa, Wang Shuai is also Villa's core playmaker. In the League Cup that has ended, and in the Championship so far, Wang Shuai is at the top of the assist list, and Wang Shuai is also in the top three in the scorer list.

Whether as a head coach or a player, Wang Shuai has shown great football talent, and he does not look like a person who came out of the 'football desert' in China. But at the same time, Wang Shuai does not seem to have the usual humble style of the Chinese people.

Speaking in his post-match press conference after the Carabao Cup final, Wang said, 'We will go all out against Chelsea in the next round of the FA Cup and try to go far in the FA Cup'.

Aston Villa have already beaten Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United in this year's FA Cup and League Cup, and the likes of David Beckham, Tres Movic, Wu Shi and Zhou Niu have shown great potential, but these are not their bargaining chips against Chelsea.

Chelsea are currently at the top of the Premier League and are certainly not to be underestimated. At the same time, the Blues do not have a European competition this year, which allows them to focus on domestic competitions. Now that the Carabao Cup is over, Chelsea's league situation is very optimistic, which means that Chelsea in the FA Cup will be in peak form. And such a Blues in their heyday is definitely not something that Aston Villa can match.

Of course, we respect Villa's determination to beat Chelsea and expect a high-level battle between the two teams. Regardless, the gap between Aston Villa and Chelsea is too big and Villa will have to work hard if they want to win. ”

Looking at this report from the Times Times, Wang Shuai was speechless for a while.

He really just said it casually at the time, in fact, Wang Shuai himself certainly knew that against Chelsea this season, Aston Villa had no chance of winning at all.

It's not just the outside world that thinks they are arrogant, but the rest of the squad is starting to feel confident that they can continue to win the next FA Cup game.

Faced with such a situation, Wang Shuai naturally couldn't hit them, so he had no choice but to start another "speech" according to their intentions:

"I said on my first day in the team that for every game I have only one goal, and that is to win. Our opponents in the next round are Chelsea, bigger than Liverpool, stronger than Manchester United, stronger than Tottenham, but my goal remains the same.

Of course, there will be wins and losses in the game, and this game will be difficult for us, so I don't say you have to win the game because no one can guarantee it. However, I want to see your attitude, the result is not important, it is the process that matters. Even if we lose in the end, we must not let our opponents feel better. ”

wants to win, but it is not easy to win, Wang Shuai's words are very tactful, and it also reduces the team's unrealistic self-confidence to the normal range. It's just that the self-confidence has dropped, but the belief in winning has not changed, which is also the situation that Wang Shuai wants to see the most.

……

A month later.

In the month since the Carabao Cup, Aston Villa have only league games to play. In the case of winning the championship in advance, Wang Shuai regarded all four league games this month as tactical training matches, and unlike in the past, these four "training matches" lasted 90 minutes.

It's just that even in the "training match", Villa won the other three games except for a 2-2 draw away from Huddersfield. With eight games to go, Villa are just one point away from breaking the Championship record, and now everyone thinks that Villa's record is inevitable, with the only question being what the new record will be.

Of course, no one cares about the record for the time being, because with the 38th round of the Championship coming to an end, the quarter-finals of the FA Cup are just around the corner.

On March 22, at Villa Park, the Blues arrived at Chelsea as scheduled.