Aston Villa defeated Etihad Stadium.

In the English media, some people who have long been worried about the situation where Aston Villa's hegemony shrouded the Premier League (envious, jealous and hated) cheered and celebrated.

Fang Jue's old friend Tony Parker posted a photo of himself raising his glass to celebrate on his social account, and wrote: Cheers to Manchester City.

Fang Jue mocked this without any mercy. In some people's words, his mouth was spraying venom:

Yes, Aston Villa finally lost again after more than a year. Oh my god, it's too difficult. If you don't celebrate this time, I don't know when the next time will be.

The Birmingham Evening News used photos of their handsome head coaches throughout the front page, accompanied by the words Fang Jue said.

Originally, losing should be a morale and frustrating thing.

However, this issue of the Birmingham Evening News was almost sold out quickly.

Aston Villa's players also posted photos of them holding the newspaper on their personal social accounts.

This even caused a wave of trends in Birmingham, and many fans posted photos of them holding newspapers on their personal social accounts.

In response to this, The Times columnist Duncan Castour commented in his column:

If Manchester City and other Premier League teams think the defeat will have a blow and negative emotional impact on Aston Villa, look at this scene in Birmingham and they know they are wrong.

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Three days later, the fifth round of the UEFA Champions League group stage.

Aston Villa has only won one draw in the four-round group stage at home, and the defending Ligue 1 champion Montpellier, ranked last in the group.

"We are still alive, and we still have a chance to create miracles."

Before the game, Montpellier coach René Girard said so.

Yes, he was right, Montpellier still had a chance to qualify in the group.

Currently, Montpellier is 5 points behind second place Olympiacos, and there are two rounds in the group stage. They really have a chance to turn the tables. In the four-round group stage, they only scored one point and were still alive. This is indeed quite magical.

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Although Giral still has confidence in leading the team to create miracles.

However, the French media don't think so, and they think Giral's idea is too crazy.

"He should thank Aston Villa for his unique talent, which gave Gilaral the opportunity to daydream." - "Team News".

René Girard did not think he was dreaming in the daytime. He admitted that it was difficult to recover from the dead if he wanted to bottom out and rebound, but it was not without a chance.

"Aston Villa has already locked in the first place in the group ahead of schedule, and their focus is not on the Champions League."

"There is a high probability that Villa won't play too many main players today, this is our opportunity." Giral was encouraging the morale of the team. "Winning Aston Villa, we will face Schalke 04 directly in the last round."

Some players were moved by the head coach's words and boosted morale, while some players felt that the coach was too wishful thinking.

Montpellier is going to perform an absolute reversal, and the only way to calculate the score is:

Today Aston Villa 'released' and Montpellier won; Schalke won 04 over there.

Then in the last round, Montpellier defeated Schalke at home, and at the same time he hoped that Aston Villa would not let go and defeat Olympiacos away.

If the outside world guides Gilal what he thinks, he will probably be in an uproar. The most important thing about this idea is not whether Montpellier can win, but "Why should Villa listen to you? If you make me soft, I will be soft, and if you make me hard?"

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In this game with Montpellier, Fang Jue did rotate a lot of main players.

Aston Villa will face another tough battle because of the 13th round of the Premier League over the weekend:

They will play against their good friend Arsenal at home St Andrews Stadium.

Ibrahimovic and Lewandowski both sat on the bench.

Vardy and Shinji Kagawa start.

Pogba also won the starter.

Danny Ross and Thornton also replaced Milner and Kyle Walker.

Greek defender Papastasopoulos also won the first start of the Champions League this season, partnering with Italian veteran Nesta.

Gilar was very happy to see that Aston Villa had almost rotated more than half of the main players.

He felt that his prediction was correct, and Montpellier's chance came.

However, at the end of the first half, Montpellier was depressed.

Although it was a rotation and was on the bench, Aston Villa still firmly controlled the game.

Not long after the first half started, Pogba scored a long shot to help Aston Villa take the lead in the score.

Then, Aston Villa seized the opportunity of Montpellier's heavy pressure and made a beautiful counterattack. Pogba assisted Valdi to score a goal.

Two to zero.

The French commentator who commented on this game even had no choice but to announce Montpellier's exit in advance.

Then, this made the French commentator start to praise Pogba hard. No matter what, Pogba is a Frenchman, and this black French guy performed quite well, so he could still praise him.

In the second half, Thornton made a cross from the wing and inserted Papastasopoulos, who participated in the offense, headed the ball and changed the score to three-to-zero.

Papastasopoulos seemed very excited, clenched his fists and roared to celebrate the goal.

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Fang Jue applauded on the sidelines.

But in his mind was thinking about Papastasopoulos.

Aston Villa's main central defender combination this season are Sendros and Thiago Silva.

Last season, the team's main central defender Papastasopoulos became a substitute, and his appearance pick was even behind experienced veteran Nesta.

Considering that Sendros is 27 years old and Thiago Silva is 28 years old, this is exactly the golden age of the centre-back.

At least in the next few years, Aston Villa's main central defender configuration will be Sendros and Thiago Silva.

This made Papastasopoulos worry about his future in Aston Villa.

Papastasopoulos's agent has contacted Fang Jue. He wants to confirm whether his client has a future in Aston Villa. If he cannot get more opportunities to play, he hopes that the club can let Papastasopoulos leave.

Fang Jue was not angry about Papastasopoulos's intention to transfer, and he said he would consider it carefully.

The Greek defender is very diligent, and his attitude is worthy of recognition in both training and competition.

Papastasopoulos played for a season of main central defender. Even after Sendros was injured last season, the Greeks led Silenclark, Nathan Baker and Stroman, who played a guest center back, to survive a difficult period.

Papastasopoulos was not troubled, he was honest and obedient, and had sweated and made contributions to Aston Villa.

Even if such a player wants to transfer and leave, Fang Jue's attitude will be much better.

Fang Jue is now considering whether to let Papastasopoulos go?

If the Greeks don't let go, they will not be able to play the main player. They will inevitably be resentful after a long time. Even if they don't cause trouble, it is not a good thing to have such a depressed and emotional player in the locker room.

If Papastasopoulos leaves, how to adjust the position of the central defender? Should Nesta and Clark, the old and one and one young, be on standby on the bench, or should he introduce a substitute defender in the winter transfer market?

Logically speaking, there are two main central defenders, Sendros and Thiago Silva, the experienced veteran Nesta on the bench, and the young defender produced by youth training. This configuration is OK.

However, after experiencing the difficulty of using people in the central defender position last season, Fang Jue now has the fear of using people in the central defender.

The position of the central defender is too special, and there are gaps in other positions. Some panacea players can make up for the position, but the position of the central defender is not suitable.

It is not easy to find a suitable replacement in the winter transfer market.

He needs to think carefully.

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In the end, the score of this game was three to zero.

Aston Villa, who is mainly substitute players, beat Montpellier 3-0 at home.

French media lamented that it is really embarrassing that the defending Ligue 1 champion was easily beaten by Aston Villa's "Second Team".

The English media, who were clamoring for Aston Villa's loss to Manchester City, also shut up.

Aston Villa is too strong, and the substitute lineup can easily win in the Champions League without sweating.

Those who are preparing to watch Aston Villa's jokes and think that Aston Villa, who has just experienced the first defeat in the league, will experience turmoil, are disappointed.

The representative of it is Tony Parker. There are rumors that the gentleman saw Aston Villa lead Montpellier 2-0 in the first half and smashed his TV in anger.

In another game in Group B, Schalke 04 narrowly defeated Olympiacos 1-0 at home with the goal of Austrian left-back Fuchs.

This victory also saved Schalke 04.

After the fifth round of the Champions League group stage, in Group B:

Aston Villa won all five games and ranked first with 12 points;

Schalke 04 wins and draws 7 points, ranking second;

Olympiacos has 7 points with two wins and three losses, ranking third;

Montpellier draws and four losses and has 1 point, ranking last in points.
To be continued...