Villa have seven games to play in September, including three Premier League games, two Carabao Cup games and two Champions League group stage games. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The first match in the second round of the League Cup (author's note: Premier League teams start from the second round of the League Cup) and Villa's opponents are League Two side Coventry. Needless to say, Villa swept the opponent 4:0 with a full substitute lineup, and the only thing worth mentioning in this game was the performance of Liu Zhongtao, who came off the bench.

Wang Shuai brought Liu Zhongtao to Villa, on the one hand, because of his potential, and on the other hand, because of Liu Zhongtao's good offensive ability.

Liu Zhongtao is 17 years old this year, and his average attributes are less than 100, and even his strength and physical attributes are not enough to pass the passing line of junior professional players. Although the attributes are not up to standard, Liu Zhongtao is already a junior professional player, the reason is that his accuracy and speed attributes have both reached the excess standard of 110, and even his accuracy attribute is as high as 126, which is only one step away from the standard of intermediate professional players.

It's just that Wang Shuai also knows that attributes can only describe a player's strength in general, but they can't determine the type of player, just like Wu Shi and Zhou Aniu, who are also outstanding in accuracy attributes, the former is a striker, and his strength is shooting, and the latter is a back waist, and his strength is steals and long passes. So after seeing Liu Zhongtao's attributes, Wang Shuai specially looked at his past game information, and then determined that Liu Zhongtao was an offensive fullback.

Last season, the reason why Wang Shuai wanted to develop the TF-BP tactic was because Villa's two full-backs were defensive, resulting in the previous micro-tactics involving full-backs not being as powerful as they should be. Even with TF-BP tactics, Villa's wings have always been a shortcoming in attack, and they only play a role as a link between the front line and the midfield.

Therefore, Wang Shuai recruited Liu Zhongtao in.

Wang Shuai thought that if Liu Zhongtao could finally stay at Villa, it would inevitably bring a strong supplement to Villa's offensive system, and with the help of Wang Shuai's more buggy system now, Wang Shuai knew that this time would never be too long.

What surprised Wang Shuai even more was that Liu Zhongtao, a child, has certain strength and talent, and the most important thing is that he knows hard work. So, Wang Shuai did not hesitate to bring him to the first team, giving him more resources and space for growth, after all, the training conditions of the first team are far from being comparable to the youth team.

At the same time, Wang Shuai arranged for Liu Zhongtao to play in the first game after he came to the first team, and then Wang Shuai knew that his choice was not wrong.

In the 25 minutes he played, Liu Zhongtao contributed one assist and one indirect assist, helping the team to complete two goals, and this statistic was done by Liu Zhongtao as a full-back.

It can even be said that Liu Zhongtao's data is in the forefront of all fullbacks' data after Wang Shuai came to Aston Villa. Although this has a lot to do with the strength of the opponent being too weak, it is undeniable that when Liu Zhongtao grows up in a year or two, two or three years, he will definitely become an indispensable member of the side road of Villa.

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After easily qualifying for the League Cup, Villa beat Everton 3-0 to win four consecutive league games. And after that, Wang Shuai's first Champions League was officially opened.

Villa were drawn in Group E of the Champions League group stage against Monaco in Ligue 1, Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga, and CSKA Moscow in the Russian Premier League.

Monaco is not actually a French team, but belongs to the Principality of Monaco in the south of France. But Monaco became one of the most successful teams in Ligue 1 history, winning the Ligue 1 title seven times, the French Cup five times and finishing runners-up in the Champions League at the turn of the century. However, Monaco's glory period only stayed 20 years ago, and after the strong rise of Paris Saint-Germain, Monaco has completely become a foil, except for the 2013-2014 season to win the second place in Ligue 1, there are no outstanding results.

Bayer Leverkusen's record is similar to Monaco's, having topped several domestic competitions at the end of the last century and finishing runners-up in the Champions League in 2002-2003. But in the same way, under the pressure of Bayern Munich, Leverkusen's results in the last ten years are not as good as before.

Compared to these two teams from the top five leagues, CSKA Moscow's record is much bleaker. In fact, CSKA's main European competition is the Europa League, and the 2005 Europa League winner is also the best result for CSKA and the entire Russian Premier League team in Europe. As for the Champions League, CSKA's best time has only been to qualify for the quarter-finals.

In the face of these three teams, compared with Chelsea in the same group as Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester City in the same group as Barcelona, and Liverpool in the same group as Juventus, Villa's qualification situation can be described as very good. After all, one of the two tigers must be injured, and if the other three Premier League teams become the "injured tigers" in the same group competition, the other teams may not take advantage of the opportunity.

Villa will have no problem with this, their main rivals being Monaco and Bayer Leverkusen, but as long as Villa give it their all, neither team will cause them too much trouble. After all, the two leagues, the Bundesliga and the French Ligue 1, except for their respective overlords Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain, are weaker than the Premier League teams in the same ranking. In other words, if it is placed in the Premier League, the strength of Leverkusen and Monaco will definitely not be in the top five, and even the top seven Europa League qualification areas are enough, and this strength will naturally not pose a threat to Villa.

In fact, in the first Champions League group stage, Villa defeated Bayer Leverkusen 2-0 away, and then in the second group stage, they beat Monaco 4-1 at home. And Villa's smooth Champions League group stage schedule is also the envy of the other three Premier League teams.

Between the two Champions League group games, Villa also welcomed the opponent of the fifth round of the Premier League, Liverpool.

The two Premier League champions and runners-up teams last season did not have that kind of "enemy meeting" situation, or rather, only Liverpool unilaterally eyed Villa, but Villa's side was relaxed, and this ease lasted until the end of the game.

As Wang Shuai predicted at the beginning of the season, Liverpool, who made a large-scale change in the lineup, although the book strength has increased a lot, they also have to face the problem of squad running-in, and such a problem is obviously very fatal at the beginning of the season.

So, 3:1, Villa won five consecutive league games.

After that, the sixth round of the Premier League and the third round of the League Cup also did not bother Villa in the slightest, because the opponents were too weak.

Swept Brighton 4-0.

5-1 win over Championship side Derby County.

Villa have won all 13 games since the start of the season.