Unlike the Chinese Super League and the Championship, the Premier League's teams, especially those with European missions, have been on an intensive schedule since mid-August. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the first Premier League game, after defeating West Bromwich Albion 5:2, Wang Shuai led the team to Romania, another country in Europe, to prepare for the Europa League play-offs. Aston Villa's opponent is Romanian side Giurgi.

When he was in China, Wang Shuai participated in the play-offs of the AFC Champions League. In order to create opportunities for teams from various countries and regions to participate in the AFC Champions League, the AFC has many fish belly teams in the AFC Champions League play-offs. The same is true for the Europa League play-offs, where Giurgiu is one team.

Needless to say, against a Championship team that only managed to play at the level of the Championship, Villa comfortably won 6-0 away games. In fact, Villa's trip abroad was more like a trip, and they didn't take the game too seriously. If I have to say that there is anything to gain, it is that Wang Shuai has learned one more language with the help of the system, Romanian.

Gyurgu didn't pose a threat to Villa, but the next game will be different. Three days later, in the second round of the Premier League, Villa met their first strong opponent of the season, Tottenham Hotspur.

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In the third round of the FA Cup last season, Villa and Tottenham have already played each other once. With defensive counter-attacking tactics, luck, and two low-level mistakes by the opponent's midfielder Farma, Wang Shuai killed the opponent in the last ten minutes of the game, and finally Villa advanced with a score of 2:1.

As has been said before, Tottenham have now re-emerged and started their golden era again. However, last season, due to Chelsea's strong rise, Tottenham could only settle for second place in the league. However, Tottenham are clearly not willing to concede the title to someone else, so they have also strengthened it this summer.

When the league started in mid-August, Wang Shuai paid attention to the player information of various Premier League teams, and then saw that Tottenham Hotspur had brought in two more master players on the basis of the original all-senior professional players. This kind of quality is even higher than last season's Chelsea. For the competition for the Premier League title this season, everyone's attention has not surprisingly fallen on Tottenham and Chelsea.

Also last season's FA Cup, Villa and Chelsea also met, but the result of this game was that Villa lost to their opponents in a penalty shootout and missed the FA Cup semi-finals. At the same time, Villa's transfer this summer has not brought much growth to the strength of the team, and now facing the stronger Tottenham Hotspur, Villa has little hope of winning.

Hope is small, but it's not impossible. The first is the new TF-BP tactics, which is where Villa really strengthen this season. The second is fitness, which was a constant strength for Villa last season, and now that the average age of the squad has decreased, this advantage has been extended again. Finally, there are the opponents, Tottenham's two new masters, and it will take some time to integrate the team's tactics, but in the early days of the league, it is clear that this integration process cannot be completed so quickly.

Although Villa has not really completed the run-in process now, firstly, they have only changed two people in their starting lineup, and secondly, these two people are still defenders, which has no impact on the offensive formation at all. So from a run-in point of view, Villa is dominant.

On the other hand, this game is not an FA Cup, it is not a League Cup, it is just a Premier League game. So even if Villa has no chance of winning this game, Wang Shuai doesn't care. Because the win or loss of a single game, or the game at the beginning of the league, has little impact on the standings. What's more, Wang Shuai has the dual "overtraining" skills of players and coaches, which means that the team's players grow much faster than those of other clubs. Therefore, in the second half of the season, the gap between Villa and Tottenham will also be sharply narrowed. At that time, the two teams will meet again, and the outcome will not be known.

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August 24, White Hart Lane, North London.

It was here last season when Tottenham Hotspur lost 2-1 to Aston Villa. Both Tottenham players and fans have that defeat in mind, so today they are determined to avenge last year's defeat.

The home team is united, and the away team doesn't care about the result, just because they have a relaxed mentality, it doesn't mean they won't take the game seriously.

It's just that no matter how serious Aston Villa is, the gap between the two teams does exist. By the end of the first half, Tottenham were already 2-0 up.

It was only the second time since arriving in England that Villa were 2-0 down, the last time coming against Chelsea in the FA Cup quarter-finals. However, unlike last time, Chelsea were 1-0 up at half-time and Villa pulled a goal back in five minutes after 2-0. At the end of the first half today, Tottenham were already two goals ahead, and Villa did not see any hope of recovering a point.

The 15-minute half-time break passed quickly and the players from both teams were back on the pitch. To the surprise of the Tottenham crowd, there was no frustration on the faces of the Villa players who were behind the scoreline.

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The clock went back to the away dressing room fifteen minutes ago.

After Wang Shuai saw that everyone had arrived, he said directly: "What are you doing, with a sad face?" On the opposite side is Tottenham, last year's runner-up Tottenham, this year's favorite Tottenham, do you still think that the current score is 2:0 and we are ahead? It's not an FA Cup, it's not a League Cup, it's not a Europa League. It's just a league game, if you lose, you lose, it's just three points, and we can get it back from the other teams. So, play how you want to play in the second half, don't think about the result, it's really unnecessary. ”

Logically speaking, Wang Shuai's words will hit morale. But the amazing thing is that after a year of leading the team, Villa's players have also been "brainwashed" by Wang Shuai, except for a few new players, everyone else's reverence for Wang Shuai is above 85. This data also means that, basically, in the team, what Wang Shuai says is what it is.

As a result, when they returned to the pitch in the second half, Villa's players did not show any negative emotions at all. And this situation makes Tottenham not know how to play. Both the players and the coaches are wondering, does Villa have any secret weapon?

The answer, of course, is no, and if there is, it's just that Villa had a physical advantage in the second half. It's just that before this advantage of Villa has been reflected, Tottenham have made a mistake.

Surprised by Villa's attitude to the game, Tottenham started the second half with a slight hesitation, both offensively and defensively. And the result is that Villa has seized the holehole in the defense.

In the 49th minute, after receiving the ball at the top of the Ibrahimovic penalty area, he went straight into the penalty area, and David, who inserted diagonally, scored with the outside instep and successfully pulled back a point.

This time it was the same as against Chelsea, who also started the second half and Villa narrowed the gap down to one goal.