Chapter Sixty-Eight: Kells

The draw at the top of the league was a welcome welcome, but Liverpool beat Southampton 1-0 away in the other game. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 With this victory, Liverpool also managed to overtake Villa and climb to second place. Chelsea, meanwhile, also won away at Newcastle and are now level on points with Villa, who are only close on goal difference.

At the press conference after the game, Wang Shuai was paying attention to the latest rankings that had just been released, and he couldn't help but wonder how hard he tried to win Manchester City, and then Wang Shuai couldn't help but think of the penalty in the game.

The penalty was awarded after the Manchester City striker went down in the box, while Villa's centre-back Dean made an outstretched movement. But after the slow-motion replay, it was clear to everyone that Dean's foot did not touch the Manchester City striker, and he was actually squeezed down by his own teammates.

In this way, it was clearly a mistake to make the decision, but the referee could not have reversed his decision, and Manchester City also managed to equalise through this penalty.

Although Villa lost the three points he got because of a misjudgment, Wang Shuai didn't think about it, after all, a misjudgment is inevitable, and he just happened to be unlucky. It's just that Wang Shuai didn't think about holding him accountable, but Manchester City's head coach Kells fired at Wang Shuai first.

The Champions League group stage was drawn, followed by another draw in the league, and two consecutive games without a win, which was a big blow to Kells's prestige, and Kells, who was annoyed in his heart, directly pointed the finger at Wang Shuai.

'In this game, I was shocked to see that Villa's players were not tired in the slightest because I knew that Villa had a European game yesterday. Then I found out that the main players of Villa were all resting at home, and the players who went to the Europa League were all players who did not usually play time. Villa, or their manager Wang Shuai's approach, directly violates the spirit of football competition, which is shameless! ”

Listening to Kells's remarks, Wang Shuai remembered another person, Liverpool's head coach Patrice. In last season's Carabao Cup, Villa used defensive counter-attacking tactics to successfully defeat their opponents to advance, and Patrice bluntly called Villa's tactics "shameless" after the game.

For Kells and Patrice, Wang Shuai has only one evaluation for them, and he can't afford to lose.

"What's wrong with the second-tier team? It's because they don't usually have playing time, so I assigned them a game task, is this wrong? Do you mean that all your Manchester City players have plenty of playing time? I'll look at the data......" Wang Shuai said, took out his mobile phone, and clicked it a few times.

"Of the 27 players in the Manchester City squad, nine have not played this season. I'll it, a third of the players haven't played, are they retired in Manchester City, your team is really rich and capricious. I'll take a look at ......

City also have a two-day double-game fixture at the start of next month, the first against Celtic in the Champions League and the second against Chelsea. Kyles, I sincerely hope that you will give your best in these two games, and don't be so 'shameless' that we sent a substitute lineup.

Having said that, it seems that you can qualify with a draw, but even then you have to do your best, don't make a big joke about the gutter, after all, not just any team can lock in the top of the group in advance. ”

Wang Shuai's counterattack can not be described as vicious, and every sentence pokes at Kells's pain points.

First of all, there is the issue of the players' playing time, Manchester City's club management has just spoken to Keles, saying that some players have complained that they have not played time, and they have not even had the opportunity to sit on the bench. This is a big headache for Kells, and what a team is most afraid of is the internal problems in the dressing room, but Kells has no solution yet. After all, Manchester City's current schedule is very important, whether it is the Champions League or the Premier League, it is a stage where every game must be contested, and it is impossible for him to send these players on the pitch.

Then there are the two races at the beginning of December. Originally, Kells decided to send a semi-main team in the last Champions League group stage, or even a full substitute lineup, after all, this game can qualify as long as it is drawn. It doesn't matter even if they lose, because Borussia Mönchen must win away from Barcelona in order to qualify, and at the same time ensure that they have more goal difference than Manchester City, and now Manchester City's goal difference is as much as 5 points ahead, so it can be said that Borussia Mönchen's qualification is only theoretically possible, and this possibility is still very small.

But now after such a run by Wang Shuai, Kells knows that many people's eyes will be focused on his two games. If he really didn't send the full main lineup by then, he would definitely be sneered at by those media reporters: just said that others were shameless, and he didn't do it yet.

Kells knows better that his face and the team's results, the club definitely values the latter more, so Kells is equivalent to digging a pit for himself, or a super big dung pit, and then he jumped into it without hesitation.

If this point is Kells himself slapping himself in the face, then Wang Shuai's last sentence is ruthless.

At the beginning, Kells thought that what Wang Shuai said about locking the first place in the group in advance was referring to Barcelona. But then he realized that what Wang Shuai was talking about was actually Vera herself. Thinking about this, Kells opened his mouth to refute Wang Shuai, how to compare the Europa League with the Champions League. But on second thought, Kells was about to vomit blood, not only blood, but also a pain in his face.

Because Villa are just a team that has just qualified for the Premier League, and then they qualified for the group stage of the Europa League two rounds early in the first year, doesn't that tell the story? What's more, Kels, you compare Manchester City with a new team, you have to be ashamed.

So, after Wang Shuai said these few words, everyone saw that Kells's face was getting redder and redder, and finally ......

Okay, Kells' blood didn't come out, but he was just too uncomfortable.

The point is that Wang Shuai didn't leave Kyle a chance to refute, and after finishing speaking, he turned around and left, waved his hand without taking away a trace of clouds, and then ......

Wang Shuai didn't know if Kells vomited blood or not, anyway, he had already slipped away.

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The slap in the face was cool for a while, and the schedule only increased the injury.

After drawing with Manchester City, Villa once again face another formidable opponent, Arsenal.

After these two rounds of league games, or rather after these league rounds, Arsenal has won consecutive games and has now risen to sixth place in the table, and there is only a three-point gap to Villa. Such performances only speak to one thing, and that is that Arsenal's form has returned.

Villa's next game against Arsenal is the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup. Even if the Carabao Cup is not as big as the FA Cup, the schedule has reached such an extent that no team can afford to give up. At the same time, there is nothing in this match at the end of November that conflicts with other competitions.

This means that Villa will face an Arsenal in their prime.

To add insult to injury, Villa was the home of Arsenal.