After defeating Chelsea, the most "difficult" opponent, the first thing Wang Shuai did was to turn up the video of the previous round of Champions League matches. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the quarter-finals of the Champions League, Aston Villa's opponents were Sevilla, a La Liga side who eliminated Chelsea in the round of 16. Wang Shuai wants to see how they did it.

Sure enough, it was the same set-piece tactic.

Now Wang Shuai was relieved.

He had previously thought that the attacking attack of a team that could knock out Chelsea would be very good, but if it was won by set-pieces...... In any case, there is nothing special about this Sevilla team, at best they are at the same level as Atletico Madrid, which is clearly not a threat to Villa.

So, a 3:0, a 3:1, Aston Villa defeated Sevilla 6:1 over two legs and entered the semifinals strongly.

It's just that the success of the FA Cup and the Champions League has caused Villa to suffer a small setback in the Premier League, and this setback still happened in two games that Wang Shuai thought would no longer be a problem.

In the thirtieth round of the league, Villa drew 1-1 with Tottenham Hotspur away.

In the 34th round of the league, Villa was forced to draw 2:2 at home by Manchester City.

Tottenham and Manchester City, Wang Shuai is no longer familiar with the technical and tactical styles of these two teams, and he has already had mature and effective countermeasures. However, the schedule is not beautiful, both games are scheduled for the second day of the Champions League, and although Sevilla does not pose a threat to Villa, Wang Shuai does not dare to send a semi-main team to respond. As a result, Aston Villa, which lacks physical reserves, not to mention the accelerated version of TF-BP tactics, is greatly reduced in power, and the results of these two games are not surprising.

Of course, Villa's Premier League fixture in April was not just a setback, it was also a surprise. When Villa beat Southampton 3-1 in the 35th round of the league at the end of April, they were already 10 points clear of second-placed Manchester United. And this means that Villa won the Premier League title for the 2022-2023 season three rounds ahead of schedule.

Winning the Premier League title is no easy task for any Premier League team, and only three teams have done so in the Premier League's 30-year history: Manchester United, Chelsea and this season's Aston Villa.

Of course, while only three teams have won the Premier League in a row, United have done so four times, two of which have been treble. It's just that Manchester United's glory was achieved in their golden age, when their legendary coach Andy aged, that is, after 2010, Manchester United won a total of two Premier League titles, or through Andy's "aftermath", let alone any re-wins.

And the reason why there are so few consecutive championships is because after entering the new century, all teams in the Premier League have begun to rise, and Manchester United's one-word era has come to an end.

In 2004, Joseph and the Russian consortium took over Chelsea, and the Blues rose to prominence and won two consecutive titles.

In 2008, Manchester City was bought by an Arab consortium and has since entered the ranks of powerhouses.

In 2016, promoted Malicester City burst onto the scene, winning the Premier League in their first year like Villa.

Not to mention, traditional powerhouses such as Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur are also eyeing the Premier League title.

Because of this, the Premier League has become an outlier in the top five leagues, because there are so many candidates to win the title every season.

Let's take a look at the last decade of the other four leagues.

In the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich won eight titles in ten years, including a five-in-a-row title.

In Serie A, Juventus won eight titles in ten years, including seven consecutive titles.

In Ligue 1, Paris Saint-Germain has won nine consecutive championships in ten years, or a terrifying nine consecutive championships.

La Liga is slightly better, not a team's words, but Barcelona and Real Madrid, two teams, have also won nine titles in ten years, only in the 2013-2014 season, La Liga champions were "stolen" by Atletico Madrid.

And what about the Premier League? Seven teams have won the title in the last decade: Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Leicester City, Liverpool, Tottenham and Aston Villa. Of these seven teams, except for Leicester City, which was short-lived, the other six have remained at the top of the table in each season. This shows how fierce the competition for the Premier League title is.

And it is in such an era of "division of powers" that Aston Villa has made history by winning two years of the Premier League since the first year of promotion, and the second title was won three rounds in advance.

What's even more terrifying is that Aston Villa is so "young", with the average age of the entire main squad being only 24 years old. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Villa are still on the rise and are still far from their peak.

As a result, everyone is lamenting that after Manchester United, the second dominant team in the Premier League has risen.

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The hegemon is not the hegemon, Wang Shuai did not care, because although he has won the Premier League championship in advance, Villa's schedule this season is far from over.

There are three more Premier League games against Crystal Palace, Manchester United and Everton. Of course, these three games are no longer relevant to Villa, the key is to see whether Wang Shuai wants to hit the unbeaten record.

Villa are on two unbeaten streaks.

The first is the unbeaten league record, and if Villa can remain unbeaten this season, their unbeaten league record will extend to 40 games, while the Premier League is held by Arsenal with 49 games and the top five leagues with AC Milan with 58.

The second is an unbeaten record in all competitions. Due to the sixth group game of this season's Champions League, Villa, who were all substitutes, lost 0:3 to Monaco, so Villa's current unbeaten record is only 27 games. Of course, if Villa are unbeaten for the rest of the season, that record will reach 34, not far from Juventus' record of 43.

However, it will be difficult for Villa to break for a second record, as there are also Champions League semi-finals and finals in the last month of the season.

Villa's semi-final opponent is none other than Juventus, who are unbeaten. Like Chelsea, Juventus is also a defensive-minded team, and after the victory over Chelsea, Wang Shuai also has a way to deal with this kind of "iron bucket" team, with the semi-finals of these two legs, Wang Shuai feels that there is no difficulty.

However, the other semi-final will be played against Barcelona and Real Madrid. And this Spanish national derby, no matter who is the eventual winner, is not easy for the current Villa to deal with.