Fengba Greenery

Chapter 590 Vera's Elegy of Relegation

Chapter 171 Vera's Relegation Elegy
In central England, in the center of Birmingham, at the gate of the Aston Villa Club Bodymoor Health training base, a large number of Aston Villa fans wearing Aston Villa's traditional red and blue sleeve jerseys gathered here.

"We don't need players like Jordan Ayew!!!"

"You don't know shame at all!! You have no desire to fight, you have no self-esteem!! You don't deserve Aston Villa!!!"

"You guys are going to be a disgrace to the history of the franchise!! You all are!!!"

Fans protested the team's performance with banners, or leaned on the outer wall of the training base and shouted slogans to the Aston Villa players who were training, or some fans simply sat quietly at the entrance of the training base.

Aston Villa's next game is going to Old Trafford to challenge Manchester United. Before the big game, the relationship between the team and the fans seemed so tense.

Why is this?
This is of course because this powerful team that England has penetrated, Aston Villa, which has never been relegated since the establishment of the Premier League, is almost certain to leave the Premier League this season.

For Aston Villa, a veteran team in England, relegation this season is only theoretically possible-when "Black Cat" Sunderland defeated "Canary" Norwich, the deputy squad leader Aston Villa got a glimmer of hope.As long as they win Manchester United at Old Trafford, they can postpone the relegation time.

But this is only in theory. Aston Villa lost 1 to 2 at home to Bournemouth in the last round. They have suffered a losing streak in the last 8 rounds. They currently rank bottom with only 16 points, and they are far from Norwich, who is fourth from the bottom. The point difference reached 16 points.With six rounds left in the league, as long as they lose this game, Aston Villa will be relegated five rounds ahead of schedule!
Relegation is undoubtedly a cruel experience for both the club Aston Villa and the fans of the team.

For Aston Villa, relegation is definitely the darkest moment in the club's history. Although the team is not as successful as Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal, it is a force that cannot be ignored in British football: Premier League 1992 Since its inception in 24, only seven teams have participated in all 100 seasons, including Aston Villa, and the remaining six teams are Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham and Everton. The number of teams holding that record for the season will become six.In the history of English football, only three teams have participated in the top league for more than 105 years. In addition to Aston Villa for 113 years, there are Everton for 101 years and Liverpool for [-] years.

Therefore, compared with upstarts like Chelsea and Manchester City, Aston Villa is more like a traditional giant. In addition to participating in the top leagues and being the best in British football, the honors it has won are also the envy of countless clubs: Aston Villa Since the establishment of the team, Dunville has won 7 top league championships in England, second only to Manchester United (20 times), Liverpool (18 times), Arsenal (13 times) and Everton (9 times). Ranked fifth; won the FA Cup 7 times, second only to Arsenal (12 times), Manchester United (11 times) and Tottenham (8 times), tied for fourth place with Liverpool and Chelsea; in addition , Aston Villa also won 1 Community Shield.

Aston Villa has also achieved brilliance in the European arena. In the 1982 Champions League final, the team defeated Bayern Munich 1-0 and won the Big Ears Cup. It is unmatched by Arsenal and Manchester City; Aston Villa has also won 5 European Super Cup and 1 European Toto Cups.

And this season's Aston Villa, there is basically no possibility of relegation-even if they can beat the thriving Manchester United in the next round of the league.

Of course, not many people expected that a team with no fighting spirit like Aston Villa could beat the Red Devils in the Theater of Dreams. They don't even have a head coach now.

At the beginning of the season, last season's relegation hero Sherwood was fired because the team suffered a losing streak, and the replacement for Sherwood was Gard, the former assistant of Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger, but this guy was not too lucky. He didn't even last one-seventh of the contract period (a three-and-a-half-year contract), and he was dismissed after the team's six-game losing streak.

说起来，这位温格门徒下课也一点不冤枉——加尔德执教仅4个多月，球队仅仅打入12粒英超进球，但却狂丢38球——同期全联赛最差数据。期间维拉联赛2胜6平12负，目前积16分排名英超倒数第一。加尔德率队10%的胜率则是英超历史第3差，仅仅略好于前南安普敦教头威格利（6.2%）和前博尔顿主帅麦克法兰（9.1%）。

But since Gard's dismissal of get out of class, the chaotic Aston Villa has still not been able to find a new coach to take charge of the wrecked ship of Villa, and now the acting head coach of the team is the team's youth team coach Carl.

Carl has clearly lost control of the team now. The players in the first team don't pay attention to this youth team coach at all, but Carl doesn't seem to care much—he was temporarily put in charge of the first team His youth coach had never managed an adult team before, and he didn't know how to manage Aston Villa's chaotic dressing room.

Even in training, the words of the interim head coach were not very effective. Many players were doing their own things. The entire training ground was divided into two groups. The first wave was captain Richards and Ah The English-speaking gang headed by Banglaho, Guzan, and Clark, and the other group are French-speaking players such as Jordan Ayew, Weiletou, and Guye who joined from Ligue [-] last summer.

If the team's performance is stable, perhaps the factional struggles in the locker room will not make the situation worse, but now that Aston Villa has fallen into such a situation, both factions believe that the other party should be responsible for the team's poor record .

Jordan Ayew's face was gloomy at the moment.

He thinks that his performance this season is no worse than that of the team's other striker, Abang Laho. Why do the fans outside only scold him and not blame Abang Laho? It's not because of Abang Laho. It is Aston Villa's "own man" who came out of the Villa youth academy.And he, Ayu, is an "outsider", so the fans outside will treat themselves with double standards.

It seems that my decision to join Villa was wrong. This is not a team that can realize my ambitions at all.But fortunately, Villa will be relegated next season. With his own strength, it is not difficult to find a position in other teams in the Premier League.

On the other side, Abanglahuo's face is not good-looking. As the main star of the first team from Aston Villa's youth training camp all the way since he was a child, Abanglahuo certainly does not want Villa to be relegated, but now It seems that Villa's relegation is basically a foregone conclusion, and it seems that I should have made a plan early-is it really possible to play in the English Championship with Aston Villa?
Abanglahuo looked at the fans outside the training base, and felt even more guilty in his heart—that is, he felt guilty for the team's performance this season, and at the same time, he was still thinking about his own future under such circumstances. .

Even a well-established Villa product like Abang Lahor is thinking about where to go next season, and this is especially true for other Villa players.

Carl looked at the Aston Villa first-team players who had different thoughts on the training ground, and shook his head slightly.

If possible, he even hopes to bring up the players from his youth team to play the last few league matches. It is estimated that the effect will be better than the current team composed of this group of players.

But this is obviously impossible. The team needs to keep most of the first-team players next season as capital to re-enter the Premier League.You must know that this group of players was also brought in by the team at a high price. The boss would not allow a youth team coach with no foundation like him to mess around-even if he wants to sell, he must sell it for a good price, right?

Carl raised his hand to check the time, then blew the whistle for the end of practice.

"Okay guys, now go back and tidy up, we'll drive to Manchester at one o'clock!"

Not many players responded to him, Karl didn't care, he was just doing his job.

This team is basically hopeless.

Karl looked at the fans outside the training base.

Just feel sorry for the fans.
Compared with the chaotic Aston Villa, Manchester United's minds are all focused on winning the league at the moment.

Just need to score another nine points, and the league champion will be out of the running! !
For the players and fans, of course, the sooner they win this championship, the better, and then they face the vice-president Aston Villa, although Manchester United played a very exhausting Champions League game in Madrid three days ago , but Ancelotti still sent the main lineup in this game, trying to avoid any surprises.

Manchester United coach Ancelotti was all smiles at the pre-match press conference, but the Italian coach has always been known as a good guy. Although he already regarded this three-pointer as a three-pointer already in his pocket, he What he said didn't offend people: "We are happy to eliminate Real Madrid and reach the semi-finals of the Champions League in the middle of the week, but this game against Aston Villa is also a fierce battle, even though they have not been in a good state recently , but they will definitely go all out, and we must be more vigilant."

Ancelotti's words are cautious, but Aston Villa's performance at Old Trafford is really not flattering.

Aston Villa, which is about to be relegated, seems to have lost its soul. Aston Villa, which formed a five-back formation, still failed to keep their goal. In the 6th minute of the game, they conceded a goal.

Through a corner kick, Smalling headed in and put the ball into the goal held by American goalkeeper Guzan. Manchester United led [-]-[-] early.

Then the situation on the field was completely controlled by Manchester United, and Aston Villa basically didn't get any good opportunities.

In the No.30 minute of the first half, Rooney, who got the chance to start the game, took a shot from the front of the penalty area. Aston Villa goalkeeper Guzan dropped the ball and was shot by Di Maria in the penalty area. Zero lead.

Perhaps it was the early fall behind that inspired the Aston Villa players' sense of honor and shame as professional players. They tried to counterattack in the second half of the second half and created many opportunities.

In the 404th minute, Abanglaho broke into the penalty area and swayed Smalling to shoot. Herrera, who chased back in time, made a key block.

Then the first half of the game ended quickly, and the two sides entered the intermission.

In the locker room, the atmosphere in Aston Villa was naturally very bad. Acting head coach Karl didn't know what to say, and most of the players lowered their heads.

There are only the last 45 minutes before Aston Villa's relegation. The players are thinking about where they will play next season. It is estimated that their minds have already flown away from the game.

Jordan Ayew stood up and walked in front of Abang Raho.

"Why didn't you pass the ball to me just now, my position is better!"

In the face of Jordan Ayew's accusation, Abanglaho became angry instantly.

These sons of bitches french whores have acted like shit this season and have the guts to accuse me.

"Did it pass to you and you kicked away?"

Abang Raho stood up and mocked.

Jordan - Ayew face also gloomy down.

"Who are you talking about, son of a bitch!"

Abanglaho responded with a fist.
The two fought together, and the other players at most just looked up. No one tried to persuade the fight, but many people took the opportunity to make a fuss.

Chaos in the Aston Villa dressing room.
At the beginning of the second half, both Abanglaho and Jordan Ayew were replaced-although Karl couldn't say much in the locker room, the power to make substitutions in the game was still in his hands.

Of course, these two people are both bruised and swollen at the moment, and they didn't even appear on the bench—it is estimated that they went to the team doctor to report their injuries, and I don't know if the two of them will fight again in the medical room.

The outside world actually knows very little about the situation in the locker room. The players have a tacit understanding that what happened in the locker room will never be revealed to the outside world. Otherwise, all the players will isolate this and reveal the secret of the locker room The "inner ghost".

No one wants to be the ghost, so the fans don't know about the fight between Abanglaho and Jordan Ayew.

Before the start of the second half, the Aston Villa fans who came to the away game unrolled a large white cloth, which read:
"NO FIGHT"

"NO PRIDE"

"NO EFFORT"

Fans used this method to protest the performance of the players.

However, even so, Aston Villa still conceded a goal in the second half. In the 80th minute, Rashford, who came on as a substitute for Li Qingshan, scored another goal, turning the score on the field into [-]-[-].

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, Aston Villa decided to be relegated five rounds ahead of schedule!
Amidst the cheers of Manchester United fans at Old Trafford, Aston Villa fans began to cry.

The Aston Villa players stood blankly on the field.

The taste of relegation is so unbearable for players and fans.

The Villa song began to be sung in the away area.

Perhaps for Aston Villa, this relegation is the beginning of another rebirth from the ashes.

(End of this chapter)