Almost a year later, Aston Villa and Chelsea have both changed a lot. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

A number of Villa's older players were removed from the starting line-up by the manager, and some of Chelsea's main players last season did not renew their contracts and left the team. It's just that the biggest change in Chelsea has only been observed by Wang Shuai through the system.

Last season, Chelsea had just one grandmaster, and that was their 'monster' centre-back Flick. Chelsea still have just one grandmaster this year, but that person is not Flick, but the defender Brandt, who was responsible for keeping the guard on the boss in last season's FA Cup.

This is not to say that Flick has left Chelsea, but that the 32-year-old will naturally decline with age, and last season he was just stuck on the edge of the master class with 191 accuracy, and after this year's decline in ability, his player rating has also been reduced to senior professional level.

Brandt, on the other hand, is a defensive midfielder who is at the peak of his career at the age of 27 and has become a master player after a year of development, the most worthy of the name of the best player in the Chelsea squad.

It's just that only Wang Shuai knows about this, neither the two players involved, nor the head coach of Chelsea.

So in this season's game, Flick's offensive task has not been reduced, and Brandt's defensive task has not been increased. As a result, Chelsea's attacking prowess has been reduced and the defensive side has not been able to perform commensurately. That's why Chelsea's first half of the season hasn't been great.

Wang Shuai has always been curious, Chelsea's summer transfer is only to complete the main squad, not to strengthen, and their transfer targets are all technical characteristics to match the team's tactics, rather than like Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur for the sake of reinforcement, it stands to reason that Chelsea should not have a tactical run-in problem, why the results are still not ideal.

It wasn't until a few days before the game, when Wang started studying Chelsea's games this season, that he understood. Chelsea's biggest problem this season is Flick and Brandt, and the task and strength are not compatible. On the one hand, the offensive task cannot be completed, and on the other hand, it also causes a waste of resources in the back.

Of course, this can't be blamed on the Chelsea manager's mistakes, after all, Flick and Brandt's abilities have not changed much, which means that the player levels of both of them have changed, which is why Wang Shuai noticed, let alone others. In fact, the Chelsea head coach has now found some clues in the team, the most intuitive manifestation of which is that Flick seems to be "in poor form" this season, and the statistics are a cut worse than last season.

It's just that this gap is not large, statistically speaking, there is not even a significant difference, so the Chelsea manager takes it for granted that this is just a normal fluctuation in Flick's form, and he is not associated with age and ability at all, and still puts him at the absolute core of the team, which inevitably causes Chelsea's results to decline this season.

And this has also become an opportunity for Villa to play this game.

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In the last game against Chelsea, due to Flick's strength, Wang Shuai had to separate from the team's defensive system and defend Flick alone. As a result, Chelsea's attack caused quite a bit of a problem for Villa's defence.

Now that Flick's ability has declined, Wang Shuai has been able to devote his energy to other defensive tasks of the team, which has invisibly raised Villa's defensive intensity to a higher level.

At the same time, Brandt, who is responsible for marking Wang Shuai, has increased his ability but has not shared heavier defensive tasks. And Wang Shuai, including several other young players in Villa, has also grown more or less, and with the help of Wang Shuai's "over-training" skills, the increase is greater than that of Brandt. With this and the other, Villa's attack can also be much easier than last time.

What's more, Wang noted that Chelsea's average age has become older after the change of the main line-up, while Villa have focused more on physical training this season. As a result, compared to last season, Villa's physical advantage is becoming more and more obvious.

Although Wang Shuai knows that against a strong team now, using TF-BP tactics will have a better effect. But he is also well aware that TF-BP tactics will also be more physically draining than normal defensive counter-attacking tactics. Therefore, in this game, Wang Shuai intends to focus on defense in the first half, gradually deplete the opponent's physical strength, and after establishing a physical advantage in the second half, he will move out of the TF-BP tactic and defeat the opponent in one fell swoop.

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It's just that the trend of the game did not go as Wang Shuai wished.

Villa's physical reserves are among the best in the Premier League. Therefore, in the first half, Chelsea also "shamelessly" implemented defensive counter-attacking tactics to avoid unnecessary physical exertion and create opportunities for Villa.

And after Wang Shuai saw such a situation, he did not blindly start to organize an attack. After all, with a lead in points, even if this game ends in a draw, Villa can still occupy the top spot in the standings.

Therefore, Villa and Chelsea did nothing in the first half, and the limited few attacks were all long passes and hangs after a steal at the back, which did not pose a threat to the opponent's defense at all.

In this way, until the end of the first half, the score of the two sides inevitably remained 0:0.

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In the old wave commentary room.

'The first half is over, Villa and Chelsea are sticking to the defensive tactics, so it's still 0-0, what do you think about this situation? Yu Dong asked "pretending to be puzzled" for the interaction in the show.

"Well, according to what I know about Wang Shuai, he is actually a relatively utilitarian person. In other words, in any game, he has to complete the goal of the season first, and then the goal of this game. This question has been "booked" before, and He Tao has already prepared the answer.

"Of course, many people remember that Wang Shuai said in his first press conference after coming to Villa, 'for every game, his goal is to win'. In fact, this does not contradict his current 'utilitarianism'.

As a player, Wang Shuai will work hard to win every game. But now that he's the head coach of this team, he's going to have to think more about the team, so it's encouraging to give up some games to fight for the longer term.

Coming back to this game, we know that Villa are now top of the table, one point ahead of second-placed Liverpool and three ahead of Chelsea. Wang Shuai said at the beginning of the season that Villa's goal this season is to retain Champions League qualification, that is, the top four in the standings. As things stand, Villa only need to guarantee a draw against these competing teams to meet their goal for the season.

And in the case of a draw that can be ensured, Wang Shuai will consider going for 3 points. And Wang Shuai's consistent tactical play is to use the physical advantage in the second half to counterattack. So now the first half is flat, I think it's just a surface, and the second half is when Wang Shuai really starts to exert his strength. ”