At 22:00 Beijing time on February 13, the 2021-22 Premier League season will usher in a focus battle: Newcastle vs Aston Villa.
In the winter transfer window, Aston Villa strengthened the lineup, from Barca loan to introduce Liverpool veteran, Gerrard's former teammate Coutinho, from the actual performance, Villa's reinforcement, can be called "treasure".
In the 22nd round of the Premier League, Aston Villa hosted the powerful Manchester United, with B Fee's scoring twice, Manchester United led 2:0, Aston Villa first pulled back a city by Jacob, and Coutinho, who made his debut at the bench, scored a goal to help Aston Villa draw 2-2 at home to Manchester United. In the 24th round of the Premier League, Aston Villa hosted Leeds United, and Coutinho, who started as a right winger in consecutive games, scored the equaliser first, and then assisted twice, helping the team to exceed the score, but unfortunately did not hold it in the end, and was finally forced to draw 3:3 by Leeds United.
After joining Aston Villa, he played 3 games and contributed 4 goals on 2 goals and 2 assists, twice as much as Manchester United winger Sancho, who has played 25 games for Manchester United this season, including only 1 goal in 18 Premier League games, and last summer when Manchester United brought Sancho in from Borussia Dortmund, it spent 85 million euros in transfer fees. From this point of view, Villa's introduction of Coutinho is a great value for money.
After being acquired by Saudi gold owners, Newcastle has replaced Manchester City as the richest football club in the Premier League and even in the world, Newcastle, which has long been deeply trapped in the relegation zone, and the winter transfer window has been "limited" reinforcement, the reason why it is "limited" is that even if the transfer fee and salary are high, people do not want to come. But after all, it is reinforced, and the record has begun to rebound strongly.
In the 24th round of the Premier League, after Newcastle beat the new coach Frank Lampard's Everton 3:1 at home, the Premier League went unbeaten in four consecutive rounds and won two consecutive wins, 22 games with 18 points to rise to 17th in the Premier League table, escaping the relegation zone, 1 point ahead of Norwich Inoch 18th with 17 points in the relegation zone.
After Gerrard took office, Aston Villa had a feeling of gradual improvement, but this time away against the morale of Newcastle, it was not easy.
Newcastle have won 3, drawn 3 and lost 4 of their last 10 matches in all competitions.
Aston Villa have won 3, drawn 2 and lost 5 of their last 10 matches in all competitions. The Premier League is unbeaten with 1 win and 2 draws in the last 3 rounds.
The two sides have met in the past 10 times, Newcastle has 2 wins, 5 draws and 3 losses, the Premier League has met in the past 5 times, and Newcastle has drawn 2 draws and 3 defeats against Villa for 5 consecutive games without victory.
In this game, Villa has a slightly better chance of winning, but for Gerrard, it is not easy to beat Newcastle at this time.