Aston Villa won 2-0 at The Cano Road Stadium to Norwich, and Norwich coach Dean Smith just took over the team from Villa, Dean Smith in addition to being a former villa manager or Villa die-hard fan, it can be said that Dean Smith at that time was like the male protagonist in the novel, coaching his favorite team and leading the team back to the top league.
Villa returned to the Premier League in the first summer of the summer transfer to bring in 25 million Wesley, 22.3 million Mins, 16.8 million Douglas Luiz, 15.5 million Tagat, 13.3 million Consa, 12 million Nakamba, 10 million Trezeguet, 9 million El Gazzi, 8.8 million Heaton, 8 million Bjørn Engels, 340 Marriotts and other 144.1 million, and the winter window led to Samata 10.5 million. Spending a total of 10.5 million on loan for 400,000 Yuan (excluding the visa-free Borja Baston and The Linkwater on loan), thrilling relegation (winning a goal-line technical error against Bournemouth and eventually relegating), being able to stay in the Premier League Dean Smith can say that he delivered a satisfactory answer in his first season, which may be an important reason why Dean Smith was able to quickly become Norwich coach after Villa's dismissal!
Last season's summer window team introduced 34 million Watkins, 18.4 million Bertrand Traore, 17.4 million Damian Martinez, 15.75 million Cash, etc. 4 players (excluding Barkley on loan) spent 85.55 million, the winter window 15.8 million introduced Sansson; ranked 11th in the league, it can be said that this season Villa has surprised many people, Dean Smith led Villa to a strong performance at the beginning of the season in September and October, and there was a 7-2 home win over Liverpool.
Although the scene of this season took the captain Gnaglish but the team introduced 38.4 million Buendia, 32 million Leon Bailey, 29.42 million Danny Ince and other 3 players (excluding the free Asheli Young and the loan Tuanzebe) spent 99.82 million, at the beginning of the season Villa did not have the amazing performance of last season, but the performance was still decent, the first round of the league 3-0 behind still won two goals, which shows that the team has a certain resilience, and then there are also 3-0 wins over Everton, 1-1 draw with Chelsea, The 1-0 win over Manchester United is such a wonderful performance, but since the victory over Manchester United, the team does not seem to win or even draw, the main factor is probably not because the team lacks Gnarrish but the uncertainty of the team's formation, frequently switching lineups between 4 defenders and 5 defenders, and finally after 5 consecutive league defeats, only 2 points ahead of the relegation zone, Dean Smith was dismissed, and Gerrard became Villa's manager.
Gerrard can be said to be a "magic coach", although there is an experience of coaching su chao wanderers undefeated and winning the championship, but the su chao is not a mainstream european league after all, most people may still think that Gerrard is a newcomer, a rookie head coach, but after Gerald coaches Villa, these doubts should probably be much less.
Gerrard has won 4 of them in 6 games since taking office, only 2 to Manchester City, 1 to Liverpool, this game against Norwich and the most familiar Villa Dean Smith scored 3 points 2-0, Villa league unconsciously accumulated 22 points to rise to the 9th place in the league, more than one game from the top 6 Arsenal is only 4 points away, Xiaobian previously wrote "Gerrard coached Aston Villa's first victory, can the league be ranked in the top six at the end of this season?" At that time, some people may still question that Villa was able to relegate this season as a success, so now?
In addition to the direct changes that Gerrard has brought to Villa in terms of results, there have also been some changes in the use of team personnel, such as Chukuemeka, the young player who sent assists in this game, was rumored to be unprepared to renew his contract with the team because he did not get the opportunity to play, since Gerrard has begun to get the opportunity to play, I believe That Chukuemeca should also renew his contract with the team soon. Before this game, Gerrard also talked about the winter window transfer reinforcements, but it should be more important to clean the players than to bring in reinforcements, because according to the financial fairness of Villa, there is not much transfer fee to spend in this winter window, plus some injured players such as Sansson, Trezeguet and other injured players at the beginning of the season and the need to give Young players such as Jacob Ramsay playing time, now Villa's midfield is obviously bloated. Maybe some players will leave at the beginning of this winter window, such as El Gazi, who has passed transfer rumors from Roma in the summer window, Kennan Davis, who had loan rumors at the beginning of the season, and most like the team's newly renewed young player Archer, will also go out on loan in the winter window to exercise? Don't know what kind of surprises this winter window will have? Looking forward to Gerald being able to lead Villa's performance!