If some media and fans like to divide the factions for coaches, Aston Villa head coach Fang Jue and his opponent in today's game, Roberto Martinez, head coach of Wigan Athletics, can barely be considered a faction.

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

Roberto Martinez is an Espanyol and his football philosophy also advocates smooth offense.

Of course, the biggest Spanish faction in the Premier League is Liverpool coach Rafa Benitez. Benitez, who once led Liverpool to the European Champions League championship, is at a higher level. Moreover, Benitez obviously has no intention of forming cliques, and he has never expressed any opinions on these two juniors.

England has high expectations for this game. This is the Premier League debut of the young coach Fang Jue, who is currently famous in European football. In addition, this is also the debut of Martinez coaching Wigan Athletics.

Of course, the main expectation is in the former. Everyone stared at the big eyes to see how the Chinese coach who led Ibiza to create miracles performed after coming to the Premier League, and whether his magic would lose his magic power because of the unacceptable environment.

Aston Villa's lineup surprised everyone, Fang Jue lined up a lineup mainly composed of Aston Villa's players last season.

Deisler sat on the bench, Sendros was on the bench, Robert Enke sat on the bench, and Gareth Bale and Van Nistruy were in the stands.

Only Clement got it.

Aston Villa's goalkeeper is veteran Friedel, right back is Luke Young, left back is Dutch veteran Wilfred Boma, center back partner is Curtis Davis and Quillier; midfielder is Ashley Young, Clement, Simon Wright, Petrov and Milner, and the fast forward Abonrajo on the front line.

On the side of the Wigan Athletic, the goalkeeper is Cockland, the defense line is Melchiott, Bramble, Schalner and Figueroa, the midfield is Thomas, Michael Brown, Enzobia and Gomez, and the forward line is Kumas and Rodrega's partner.

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

Moreover, Fang Jue actually made a move to join forces in his own Premier League debut. In his home debut, the midfield arranged for Clement and Sidwell, two fierce midfielders who intercepted fiercely, which caught Martinez off guard.

As we all know, Petrov is not a real frontcourt organizer. Ashley Young and Milner are more importantly on the wing. In this case, if Fang Jue deviates from such a midfield configuration, how could Aston Villa play beautifully?

Is Aston Villa going to play conservatively at home?

Although this idea is a bit ridiculous, Martinez has an intuition, that's what that guy planned?

What kind of brain circuit is this?

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

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

Martinez couldn't understand. Anyway, if it were him, if he had such good cards in his hand, he would definitely play offensively at home.

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

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"Wigan Athletics encountered Aston Villa's extremely tenacious resistance from the beginning of the game." 5's commentator John Motson said sarcastically.

Yes, it's just sarcasm.

The strength is stronger than the opponent. Aston Villa, who plays at home, actually turns away from home. He plays so conservatively at home and even gives up the offensive dominance, which makes the gold medal commentator very confused and looks down on the guy who formulates this tactical style.

"This may be out of caution," Leinker said cautiously.

The fans of Aston Villa in the stands were also very confused, but the fans still had a certain degree of patience and did not rebel from the beginning.

No matter what the fans and commentators think, this is how the game goes.

Aston Villa performed a tough defensive attitude in the game, actively fought and used their excellent physical fitness to run all over the field, starting from the frontcourt to intercept the football under the feet of the Wigan Athletics players.

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

"Clemente is indeed very capable." Although he questioned Aston Villa's conservative tactics, Motson said fairly, "Clemente has strong interception ability and large sweep area. Sidwell is by his side to help him fill in the gaps and the cooperation between the two midfielders is very coordinating."

"If it's just about the performance of defense, the partners of these two people and their performance on the interception end are indeed impressive." Leinker also said.

"And Milner, compared to Ashley Young on the left, he is more forward, and Milner takes into account defense more. Facing Enzobia, who has strong attack ability, Milner is very strong on one end of the defense."

Enzobiya has a strong ability to go straight up and down. His assists and breakthroughs on the left are a landscape that Wigan Athletics fans like, but in today's game, Enzobiya was strongly curbed.

Not only Enzobia, but also the entire Wigan Athletics team was a little uncomfortable with Aston Villa's crazy fight, and the technical statistics of proactive mistakes rose sharply.

This does not mean that Wigan Athletics is not good at confrontation. After all, in the Premier League, the Premier League is originally a competition with fierce competition.

However, the problem lies in the tactical preparations made in the game of Athletico Wigan. Martinez judged that Fang Jue would "desire to win" and "desire to win" in his Premier League debut. He judged that Aston Villa would play very positively. Therefore, the tactics Martinez formulated for Athletico Wigan was to attack Aston Villa in this game.

Of course, Martinez is not without defensive preparations. He arranged Michael Brown, who has strong fighting skills in the middle of the midfield, who is a former Leeds United strongman with good ability to fight.

However, he didn't expect Fang Jue to do even more. Two strong men, Clement and Sidwell, were so fucked Michael Brown.

Petrov is also able to attack and defend, and is very consistent with this set of pressing tactics.

The Wigan Athletics players were obviously not prepared for the Villars' desperate style of playing, and were so swept by Wigan Athletics that they performed significantly below their benchmark level.

The fight between the players on both sides is getting bigger and bigger.

The whistle of referee Clattenberg sounded frequently.

Nearly forty minutes in the first half, Clattenberg had already presented six yellow cards, including two on Aston Villa and four on Vigan Athletics.

Yes, you read that right. The fierce battle against Aston Villa only received two yellow cards, while the Wigan Athletics side actually had four yellow cards.

This is not because the referee favors the home team.

Aston Villa's foul was very good, and the fouls from behind were very good, and the movements were not very big, but the intensity was enough. For example, this time, Enzobia just got the ball, Milner pressed up, while Clement suddenly robbed and successfully intercepted the ball from the side. At the same time, because he did not close his feet in time, he brought Enzobia down.

Enzobia sat on the ground, raised her hands to protest, signaling 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 really a treasure." Motson was unhappy with Aston Villa's conservative tactics, but he seemed to really like Clement. In the first half, he not only criticized Fang Jue's tactical choices, but praised Clement.

"Yes, it's hard to imagine that a player from the Spanish league adapted to the Premier League so quickly." Leinker also praised, "Watching him playing football, I remembered Marklele."

As for why Wigan Athletics has taken more cards, it was because they were angry by Aston Villa's fight. When they were excited, they inevitably had a bigger move. Some players roared at the referee and received a fearless yellow card.

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

He admitted that he underestimated Fang Jue. In his Premier League debut, the name of the coach of the double championship in the previous season was so cautious and his posture was so low. It was really unimaginable that Martinez felt that if he was Fang Jue, he would not be able to do so.

At the end of the first half, the score was zero to zero, and neither side scored a goal. The whole first half was a scene of people falling behind. Wigan Athletics had been trying to find a goal opportunity, but soon fell into a hand-to-hand battle with Aston Villa.

As for Aston Villa, they didn't seem to have thought about scoring in the first half, and the sudden forward Abanglaho did not get any decent offensive opportunities.

"Conservative tactics, bad first half," said John Mortson. "But I didn't feel that time passed so quickly."

This is true. The first half of the game was very fierce, and time passed without realizing it.

"From the intensity of the fight, Coach Fang Jue has achieved the standard of a qualified Premier League coach." Leinker said, but it is obvious that this is not exactly a good thing.

In the camera, Fang Jue stood up from the coach's seat, smiled, applauded, and high-high with the players leaving the field, patting their shoulders.
Chapter completed!