“Rising Lion” from the Midlands, Aston Villa, breaks into the top four

Look back at the results of all 38 previous matches.

2019-20: 17th

2020-21: 11th

2021-22: 14th

2022-23: 7th

2023-24: Top 4?

Is there a possibility of being in the top four or better?

The distance is still long, there are many factors affecting the Villa’s journey. How well will he be able to fight until he can stand his ground? For the team nicknamed “Singha Rising” in the original era of the weekly Star Soccer magazine.

Latest results in the first 16 games of this season Especially winning the former champion and the former runner-up. Considered to be the best start of the past 42 years, from the season in which they won the top league championship or the ancient D.1 (1980-81) before the following season they won the European Cup. big

Football fans from the 1980s who loved both Villa and English football will remember it well.

Chief Petty Officer Ron Saunders

Goal ;Jimmy Rimmer

defender; Kenny Swain

Midfielder; Gordon Cowans, Dennis Mortimer

Striker; Tony Morley, Gary Shaw and former Thai national team coach Peter Withe, a giant striker in the style of an old England goalkeeper.

Moreover, if counting the calendar year January – latest 2023, they won 24 matches, second only to Manchester City with 26 matches, being the only team.

On behalf of the founder of the English professional football league And it is one of the nation’s oldest clubs, founded in 1874, nearly ten years after the English Football Association. They have won the league title 7 times, most recently in 1981 or 42 years ago.

Many older fans remain loyal to the team from the English Midlands. (Birmingham City) They followed until they were relegated and then rose again in the Dean Smith era in the 2019-20 season before changing hands to Steven Gerrard in November 2021. It didn’t take long for him to be thrown off his chair on October 21, 2022.

Unai Emery, former Arsenal coach, took over the job since then….

Only the most recent results in defeating Manchester City, Arsenal with well-laid tactics. It makes the names of Villa and Emery stand out among the leaders.

In fact, they had debuted with this type of strategy before but were beaten 5-1 by Newcastle. After that game, Sir Alex Ferguson praised Emery for trying to create a strategy for Villa even though they lost. That is a tactical mistake. Having that kind of philosophy, he thought, was worth watching.

That day, football fans secretly teased Sir saying……the football team lost 5-1, but they liked Villa so much. Why don’t they like Newcastle? Today, the world of social media Dig up Sir’s wise words. On the day Villa lost to Salika, let’s post.

“The seer”….

It’s easy to think about it. The level of top coaches with a lot of success has been through all the ups and downs. When he looks at football He doesn’t look at the results…he looks at the methods or tactics first.

Okay…Emery’s Villa played like this against Newcastle, getting defeated 5-1, followed by being beaten 3-0 by Liverpool.

Build-up ball from the back and press ball from the second line. Narrow the field, use the offside trap with the back four. At the beginning of the season, it had excellent results against Manchester City and Arsenal.

How did he do it?…..

JACKIE