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The team, which won the top flight title in the 80s of the last century, is now in decline and currently sits ninth in the league. Whether it is the position in the standings or the strength of the team, Maps has a certain gap with Villa, and they have naturally become another training object for Wang Shuai.

Aston Villa's players became familiar with tactics again and took the lead in the first half. In the second half they replicated the style they had played against Brentford in their last league game and won comfortably 3-0.

The game follows Villa's seventh, and final opponent, Newcastle United, in a nearly month-long two-game fixture schedule. This team is an out-and-out Championship powerhouse, Wang Shuai did not want the team to meet this vicious battle with a kind of sickness, so after returning to Birmingham, Wang Shuai arranged a rare day off for the team to recover.

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Newcastle United, a port city in Tyne-Willshire in northern England, is one of the earliest professional football clubs established in the United Kingdom and even in Europe.

Newcastle's career has been full of ups and downs, with three peaks in the early part of the last century, the 50s and the 90s, winning four top-flight titles and six FA Cups, but after their success, they also hit rock bottom, relegated to the second division on several occasions.

Since the beginning of the new century, Newcastle's results have gradually stabilized in the middle of the Premier League, and just when fans thought the team was going to accumulate steadily, the economic crisis of '08 caused the team to be in turmoil again. In the 08-09 season, changes at the club's top management affected the team, and Newcastle were unfortunately relegated. However, the following season, they made a strong return to the Premier League by securing the Championship title three rounds ahead of schedule, and finished third in the Premier League in the third year after promotion and qualified for European competitions. However, the three-tier Newcastle failed to maintain their strength and returned to mid-table in the 12-13 season, and since then have been relegated to the Championship again in the 15-16 season. Although Newcastle won the Championship again the following year, their Premier League campaign was not ideal, and after two successive relegation attempts, Newcastle were relegated to the Championship in the 19-20 season.

Newcastle's team may seem turbulent, but three Championship titles and three promotions in the past two decades show that they are not weak. At the very least, it is much better than Aston Villa, who fell to the middle of the Championship after relegation.

In fact, Newcastle's strength has long been known to Wang Shuai. When looking at the strength of the teams in the league at the beginning of the season, Wang Shuai found that Newcastle were the only two teams with senior professional players, and they were three senior professional players. If the league ranking is determined by the strength of the team alone, Wang Shuai knows that Newcastle will be the champion team this season.

Thanks to the addition of the buggy manager, Aston Villa were able to sit top of the table, while the second to fourth teams were tied three points behind. It is no coincidence that Huddersfield, who have been heavily recruited in the summer, are in fourth place, Barnsley, another team with senior professional players, and Newcastle are in second place.

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On the morning of October 1st, Villa Park.

Wang Shuai is using the last time to do targeted training for the team.

"Greenhouse, the point of the arc formation is to keep the ball, to keep the ball! Whatever you do, keep the ball first! ”

"Laurie, you're a wing-back, your role is to form a link between the midfield on the wing, so move a little closer to the middle, OK?"

"Herman, I've said it many times, our first goal is to protect the ball, so when the chances are bad, it's better to pass more than shoot blindly!"

Under Wang Shuai's constant advice, the two-hour training time was fleeting. Although the team still has many deficiencies in tactics, in order not to affect the afternoon game, Wang Shuai had to suspend training, hoping that his teammates can make fewer mistakes on the field.

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Three p.m., home dressing room.

"Okay, you should know what I'm going to say, or those two words, possession. You have to know that the team with the most possession may not win the game, but the winning percentage will definitely be higher than the opponent. So, guys, keep the ball at your feet and tell the Highlanders[note 1] who is the champion this year! Go-Go-Go~~~！！！ ”

Perhaps it was Wang Shuai's last words that played a role, and the Villa players, who had gone through two days of devilish training, had a much less tired look on their faces, replaced by a frenzy of winning the game.

Yes, Newcastle, a team that in previous years could only be looked up to by Villa, will be a stepping stone for them today.

"Toot ~!"

With the referee's whistle, the ninth round of the Championship, Aston Villa's home match against Newcastle United officially began.

After kick-off, Wang Shuai's teammates took his lesson to heart, and there were only two words in their minds: possession. This effect is obvious, everyone is not in a hurry to attack, just control the ball steadily, and the moment they see the opponent coming forward to scramble, they quickly pass the ball to the opponent in the empty position without waiting for the opponent to get close.

In such a situation, although Villa's attacking formation advanced unusually slowly, they always controlled the ball at their feet.

Middle, one of Newcastle's three senior professional players and playing as a central midfielder, played against Wang Shuai in this game.

In Middle's view, Aston Villa's current league top spot is just a flash in the pan, and in a few more league rounds, Villa will repeat the mistakes of the past few years and return to the middle of the league. And with this kind of strength team, Middlel really can't pay attention to himself.

As for Wang Shuai? Middlel knew that the opponent was a Chinese player, and he also knew that the opponent's performance in the first few rounds of the league was eye-catching. But no matter how eye-catching it is, it's not the same as a Chinese player. Middlel admits that Wang Shuai does have some strength, but that's all, look at the last two games, one Brentford, one Ipswich, these two middle and lower teams almost made Wang Shuai dumb, and Meadel never minded letting Wang Shuai see what real football is.

So, after seeing Wang Shuai control the ball, Midl pressed up.