Lost again, following the previous game away 1-2 by West Ham United, Aston Villa lost 0-1 at home to Arsenal again, ushering in two consecutive defeats in the Premier League, although in terms of Villa's current situation and ranking, the team is basically relegated worry-free, but successive losses to more advanced opponents, indicating that Villa returned to the Premier League, back to the top of the king, there is still a long way to go.
Not surprisingly, as an old powerhouse in the history of English football, Villa has actually spent a lot of money since returning to the Premier League in the 2019-2020 season, but that season, Villa only managed to relegate in the last round; in the 2020-2021 season, Villa continued to make a big purchase, and under the leadership of Glalis, once reached the top five in the table, and even gave the defending champion Liverpool a 7-2 defeat, in which Villa eventually ranked 11th.
It can be seen that Villa is a team with pursuits, fans who are familiar with the history of English football, should know that this is a team that is highly respected by the British royal family, and Villa returns to the Premier League and definitely wants to make a big difference.
It's just that the core of the 2021-2022 season, Glalish, was sent to Manchester City by Villa because of his personal ideals and pursuits, Villa was still crazy to buy and buy in the transfer market despite the money from the sale of Gloria, and the tactical system that head coach Dean Smith worked on for many years in Villa suddenly failed, no way, Villa's past tactical system was too dependent on Gralis, and he really couldn't play without him.
When Dean Smith was unable to lead Villa out of the predicament, Gerrard, who had already made his debut in the Soviet Premier League, ushered in a great opportunity in his coaching career and was able to return to the Premier League as Villa's head coach, thus opening up a new copy and starting a real monster training journey.
Under Gerrard's leadership, Villa has a new look, the team has entered a team-based model of building a team based on me, Gerrard has perfectly transplanted the 4-3-3 attacking formation that he used to hear about when he worked in Liverpool's youth training, and this is also the formation that Gerrard has successfully achieved at Glasgow Rangers.
With this proactive style of play, Villa successfully got out of the early season dilemma, and once climbed to the 9th place in the Premier League table, even with the top teams such as Manchester City and Liverpool, Villa still played unconservatively, dared to invest troops in the attack, but unfortunately, Villa did not achieve better results, even with West Ham United, Arsenal and other quasi-first-class teams, still did not achieve half a point cheap.
The reason is that we may wish to take the first half of Villa and Arsenal as an example, when Arsenal are pressed, Villa's backcourt is not smooth, this is the status quo of Villa, is the team although the style of play can imitate Liverpool, the actual effect is far from the important reason, Liverpool's midfield ability, can withstand the oppression of the vast majority of teams, Villa is difficult to do.
In addition, Villa used the trident combination of Coutinho, Watkins and Buendia in this game, but in fact, Gerrard has recently been hesitant to whether it is Onys or Buendia, Ins is more suitable as a center forward, but it is not compatible with the overall playing style of the team; on Buendia, pushing Watkins to the center position, the overall play will appear smoother, but the pressure in the penalty area is not enough, Villa's wing is not so strong single-point blasting ability, the team will sometimes fall into the strange circle of weak edges.
In a sense, Gerrard has come to a small bottleneck period in Villa, Villa relegation is basically no problem, Gerrard is also fully capable of leading the team to achieve a certain winning rate, maintaining the team's position in the middle, but how to further break through has become a big problem in front of Villa, but also in front of Gerrard.
As we said earlier, Villa is definitely a team with a pursuit, so why is Gerrard not a coach with a pursuit? Villa wants to be a veritable strong team, and Gerrard wants to be the man who single-handedly took Villa to the throne, otherwise, why would Gerald return to Liverpool to take over Klopp in the future? Liverpool, which Klopp took over, was a bad card, and Gerald did not say that he had the magic to turn decay into magic, but at least he had to have the elegance of lifting weights lightly.
It seems that Gerald's path to monster training is still very long...