Chapter 457 Premier League Debut (Continued)

If some media and fans like to divide coaches into factions, Aston Villa coach Fang Jue and his opponent Wigan Athletic coach Roberto Martinez can barely be regarded as a faction.

Fang Jue is from La Liga. Although the Ibiza he coaches also advocates pressing and defensive counterattacks, Ibiza can also play a very pleasing offensive coordination.

Roberto Martinez is a Spaniard, and his football philosophy also advocates a smooth attack.

Of course, the biggest Spanish faction in the Premier League is Liverpool coach Rafa Benitez. Benitez, who once led Liverpool to the European Champions Cup, belongs to a higher level. Moreover, Benitez obviously did not help The faction means that he has never expressed any views on these two juniors.

England's domestic expectations for this game are very high. This is the first Premier League debut of Fang Jue, a well-known young coach in European football. In addition, this is also the first appearance of Martinez coaching Wigan Athletic.

Of course, the main expectation is the former. Everyone is staring wide-eyed to see how the Chinese coach who led Ibiza to create miracles will perform after coming to the Premier League, and whether his magic will be lost due to acclimatization. magic.

And Aston Villa's starting lineup surprised everyone. Fang Jue made a starting lineup dominated by Aston Villa's players from last season.

Deisler sat on the bench, Senderos sat on the bench, Robert Enke sat on the bench, Gareth Bale and Van Nistelrooy were injured in the stands.

Only Clement got the start.

Aston Villa's starting goalkeeper is the veteran Friedel, the right back is Luke Young, the left back is the Dutch veteran Wilfred Bouma, and the center back partners are Curtis Davis and Cuellar; The midfield is the five midfielders of Ashley Young, Clement, Sidwell, Petrov and Milner, and the fast striker Abang Laho is on the front line.

For Wigan Athletic, the starting goalkeeper is Kirkland, the defense line from right to left is Melchiot, Bramble, Scharna and Figueroa, and the midfielders are Thomas, Michael Brown, Eun. Zobia and Gomez, the forward line is the partner of Kumas and Rodriga.

Fang Jue's starting lineup obviously surprised Wigan Athletic coach Martinez. What surprised him most was that the German star Sebastian Deisler, who is known as the number one direct descendant of the Chinese coach, actually sat on the bench. at the table.

Moreover, Fang Jue actually made his Premier League debut. In his home debut, the midfielder arranged Clement and Sidwell, two fierce intercepting midfielders, to start together. This is a blow to Martinez. caught off guard.

As we all know, Petrov is not a real frontcourt organizer. Ashley Young and Milner mainly go straight up and down the wing. Under such circumstances, Fang Jue arranges such a midfield configuration. How can Aston Villa Possibly a good kick?

Is Aston Villa going to play conservatively at home?

Although this idea is a bit absurd, Martinez has an intuition, is that what that guy intends?

What brain circuit is this?

Aston Villa is stronger than Wigan Athletic. Although the schedule collapsed in the second half of last season, the ranking is still several places higher than Wigan Athletic, and the value of Aston Villa's team is several times that of Wigan Athletic. times.

In this case, your home debut and Premier League debut, are you so cowardly?

Martinez couldn't understand. Anyway, if he had such a good card in his hand, he would definitely be able to play offensively at home.

Yes, Aston Villa is a good card compared to Wigan Athletic.

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"Wigan Athletic met Aston Villa's extremely tenacious resistance from the very beginning of the game." BBC5 commentator John Mortensen said sarcastically.

Yes, that is sarcasm.

Stronger than their opponents, Aston Villa, who played at home, turned the host into the guest. They played so conservatively at home, and even gave up the offensive dominance. This made the gold medal commentator very puzzled and looked down upon— — Look down on the guy who made this tactical play.

"Maybe it's out of prudence." Lineker said cautiously.

The Aston Villa fans in the stands also didn't understand. However, the fans still had a certain amount of patience and did not rebel at the beginning.

Regardless of what the fans and commentators think, the game is going on like this.

Aston Villa showed a tough defensive attitude in the game, actively fighting, using their excellent physical fitness to gallop all over the field, and started to intercept the football at the feet of Wigan Athletic players from the frontcourt.

Especially Sidwell and Clement, two players with strong interception ability, are like building a wall in front of Aston Villa's defense.

"Clement is indeed very capable." Although he questioned Aston Villa's conservative tactics, Mortensen said fairly, "Clement has strong interception ability and sweeps a large area. With Sidwell at his side helping him fill in the gaps, the two holding midfielders work together really well."

"If you just look at the defensive performance, the partnership of these two people and their performance at the interception end are really impressive." Lineker also said.

"There is also Milner. Compared with Ashley Young on the left, he is more forward. Milner is more defensive. Facing Nzobia, who has a strong assault ability, Milner is very strong on the defensive end. "

Enzobia's ability to go straight up and down is very strong. His assists and breakthroughs on the left are a scene that Wigan Athletic fans like. However, in today's game, Enzobia was strongly curbed.

Not only Nzobia, but the entire Wigan Athletic team was a little uncomfortable with Aston Villa's frantic fight, and the technical statistics of active mistakes soared.

This is not to say that Wigan Athletic is not good at confrontation. After all, in the Premier League, the Premier League has always focused on confrontation and the competition is very intense.

However, the problem lies in Wigan Athletic's tactical preparations for this game. Martinez judged that Fang Jue would be "eager to win" and "eager to win" in his Premier League debut. La will play very actively, so Martinez's tactic for Wigan Athletic in this game is to attack Aston Villa.

Of course, Martinez is not without defensive preparations. He arranged Michael Brown with strong fighting ability in the middle of the midfield. This former Leeds United Titan has a good confrontation ability.

However, he didn't expect Fang Jue to do something even better. Clement and Sidwell are two strong men. Fucking Michael Brown doesn't want it.

Petrov is also capable of both offense and defense, and fits well with this set of pressing-based tactics.

The Wigan Athletic players were obviously underprepared for the villain's desperate style of play. They were panicked by Wigan Athletic and their performance was significantly lower than their baseline level.

The scrambling movements of the players on both sides are also getting bigger and bigger.

The referee Clattenburg's whistle sounded.

Nearly 40 minutes into the first half, Clattenburg had shown six yellow cards, including two for Aston Villa and four for Wigan Athletic.

Yes, you read that right, there were only two yellow cards for Aston Villa, who fought fiercely, and four yellow cards for Wigan Athletic.

This is not because the referee favors the home team.

The fouls of the Aston Villa players are very well measured, and it is very easy for fouls from behind to occur, and the movements are not large, but the intensity is enough. For example, this time, when Enzobia just got the ball, Milner was tight. It was forced up, but Clemente suddenly grabbed the ball and successfully intercepted the ball from the side. At the same time, because he did not close his foot in time, he brought Nzobia down.

Nzobia sat on the ground, raised his hands in protest, and signaled Clement to foul.

The referee waved his hand and ignored it. This level of interception is within the allowable range of the Premier League.

"Clement is such a treasure." Mortensen was not happy with Aston Villa's conservative tactics, but he seemed to really like Clement. In the first half of the game, he criticized Fang Jue's tactical choice , is to praise Clement.

"Yes, it's unimaginable that a player from the Spanish League can adapt to the Premier League so quickly." Lineker also praised, "Watching him play, I think of Makelele."

As for why Wigan Athletic received more cards, it turned out that they were enraged by Aston Villa's scrambling. When they got emotional, they inevitably moved more. Some players roared at the referee and received fearless yellow cards. .

Martinez watched this scene from the sidelines and shook his head.

He admitted that he had underestimated Fang Jue. In his debut match in the Premier League, he was the coach of the double crown last season. It was unimaginable that this man was so cautious, and his attitude was so low. Martinez felt that if he was Fang Jue, he could not do this.

At the end of the first half, the score was zero to zero. Neither side scored. In hand-to-hand combat in Dunville.

As for Aston Villa, they didn't seem to think about scoring goals in the first half of the game, and the forward striker Abanglaho didn't get any decent offensive opportunities.

"Conservative tactics, bad first half." John Mortensen said, "However, I didn't feel that time passed so fast."

Indeed, the competition in the first half was very fierce, and the time passed without knowing it.

"If you look at the intensity of the fight, Coach Fang Jue has met the standards of a qualified Premier League coach." Lineker said, but obviously, these words are not entirely good.

In the camera, Fang Jue got up from the coach's bench, smiled, applauded, and high-fived the players leaving the field, patted their shoulders.

"It's as if Aston Villa scored the lead." John Mortensen couldn't help but sarcastically said, "To be honest, I'm very disappointed with Coach Fang Jue's half-time debut."

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