Chapter 69: Fallen Leaves and Flowers
The reason why it is called the devil's schedule is naturally terrifying.
According to the schedule, Villa will have as many as seven competitive matches in December, against Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham, with Tottenham in the second leg of the season.
In addition to being surrounded by strong opponents, the density of the game also maintains a frequency of close to two games a week.
With such a high level of intensity, no one can easily resist it.
On December 1, in the 15th round of the Premier League, Villa will travel to London to challenge Queens Park Rangers, who are currently at the bottom of the table.
Although Queens Park Rangers are at the bottom of the table, not long ago, they changed their head coach and Redknapp became the new head coach of Queens Park Rangers.
Changing the coach is like changing the knife, it's not about fun.
It's just that, considering that in the game against Arsenal, Jose played the full 90 minutes in the ice rain, and he also played the whole game against Reading in midweek, so in the game against Queens Park Rangers, Lambert still put Jose on the bench.
The rotation starters are Guzan.
In addition to Guzan, Nathan Baker, Lehi, Hurd, Holman and several others also got the chance to start the reincarnation.
On this day, the weather in London was occasionally cloudy, except for the low temperature (0~3 degrees), it was generally bearable.
After the start of the game, the two sides competed fiercely.
In the eighth minute, Westwood passed the ball down the left and the ball reached the feet of teammate Holman.
From 25 yards, Holman fired a left-footed volley that Queens Park Rangers goalkeeper Green saved but couldn't keep it out.
Holman scored his maiden goal for Villa.
Villa lead 1-0 away.
It didn't last long, and just ten minutes later, Queens Park Rangers equalised.
Diakite's cross from the right was headed in by McKay from 12 yards, and Guzan had no choice but to look back and watch the ball slowly find its way into the Villa goal.
Queen's Park, who equalised, was in high spirits, with attacks coming in waves.
Shortly afterwards, Wright-Phillips almost turned the home side on the right side of the box with a powerful shot that hit the post and bounced off.
In the end, the two sides played to a 1-1 draw.
Despite being bottom of the table, Queens Park Rangers have won three and drawn three of their last six home games against Villa, with their last home defeat coming in 1991.
Style suppression, sometimes it's so magical, even if you are down, it can still restrain you.
Jose didn't play, so the system didn't release the mission, and the reward was naturally not.
After the match, as Jose walked out of the Loftus Stadium, he saw Asuka Saito again...... (10,000 words omitted here)
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There are no midweek fixtures, and the 16th round of the Premier League is scheduled for a week later.
At that point, Villa will return to their home stadium against Stoke City, who are currently ranked ninth.
Jose returns to the starting line-up.
It was an extremely dull game.
Stoke City had just two shots on goal at Villa Park in the game, and they were all off target.
Even so, Villa's attack lacked any real threat, with just two of the 13 shots on goal on target, which was nothing short of a defence for the more than 40,000 fans who came into the stadium to watch the game.
The only memorable thing is probably that in the 93rd minute, Stoke City defender Shortton was sent off with two yellows and one red.
Although it was a defense competition, José still got the reward he deserved.
First of all, the system reward is needless to say, a draw plus a clean sheet, Jose got 4,000 points and a silver treasure chest*2, and secondly, the club got a single clean sheet bonus of 40,000 pounds.
Before he knew it, Jose's clean sheet bonus had exceeded his normal salary.
Under normal circumstances, with Jose's performance, he can get at least a salary of 80,000 pounds a week, but because he is a Chelsea player and returned to Villa on loan, he needs to negotiate with Chelsea if he wants to raise his salary, which is undoubtedly not an easy thing.
However, Jose is still young, and the salary requirement is not as important as the opportunity to play.
...
Since the number of silver treasure chests accumulated has reached 28, which is enough for "ten consecutive draws" three times, so that night, after José closed the door, the lottery operation began.
The first "ten consecutive draws" were opened.
[Talent Essence*5, Skill Points*3, Equipment Ticket*2.] 】
The rewards are mediocre.
The second "Ten Draws" continued.
[Talent Essence*4, Skill Points*2, Equipment Ticket*3, Meal Replacement Nutrients*3.] 】
It's still mediocre, and the only highlight is that a 12-point reward was drawn.
The third "Ten Consecutive Draws".
[Talent Essence*4, Skill Points*1, Equipment Ticket*2, Meal Replacement Nutrients*2, Fallen Leaf Floating Flower (Elementary)*1.] 】
Well?
Fallen leaves?
Got a free-kick technique?
After understanding, Jose figured out what the deciduous floating flowers were, in layman's terms, a more advanced elevator ball.
For the current Jose, it is of little use.
After the three "Ten Draws" in a row, Jose has 14 points of talent and skill points, which means that Jose can upgrade a primary talent and a primary free kick.
Free kick technique, José did not hesitate to opt for violent heavy artillery.
In terms of goalkeeper talent selection, Jose decided after some thought to improve the "hungry tiger pounce" to the intermediate level.
After completing the two upgrades, Jose spent 6 more equipment vouchers to customize a new set of equipment, including two pairs of boutique panties.
In midweek, on 11 December, Villa ushered in the quarter-finals of the EFL Cup, with Villa away to Premier League side Norwich.
Jose continued to start, with a number of players rotating into the line-up, including Darren Bent, who had not played for a long time.
However, Darren Bent only played 35 minutes before being replaced by Weimann.
For this game, the club's meaning is very clear, if you can win, you can win, if you can't win, you will give up, and there must be no injuries and other accidents in the game.
In light of this, José has no intention of using stunts at all.
Villa travel to Liverpool this weekend to take on Brendan Rodgers' Reds, and Jose must allocate his resources wisely for the long term.
Although the match between Villa and Norwich City is not a high-level game, it can definitely be said to be a feast of goals for neutral fans who come to watch the game.
In the 19th minute, Norwich striker Morrison opened the scoring.
Jose didn't use stunts to make saves against Liverpool at the weekend.
Two minutes later, Benteke crossed the flank and set up Holman to equalise and the two sides returned to the same running line.
The second half continued, and in the 79th minute, Lehi assisted Weimann to score, and Villa reversed the score.
Weimann then scored twice and Benteke added the icing on the cake as Villa progressed to the semi-finals of the EFL Cup with a score of 4-1.
There was no time to celebrate, and after just three days of rest, Jose and the others were on their way to Anfield to take on the mighty Reds Liverpool.