The match saw Aston Villa hosting the
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Villa lined up in 4231 with Langlet, Carlos, Cash, Moreno at the back, Douglas Luiz, Kamara at the back, McGinn at attacking midfielder, Bailey, Ramsey on the wings and Watkins up front.
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It's the same old story, playing 4231 with Maguire, Varane, Dalot, Luke Shaw at the back, Mainoo, Casemiro at the back, Beefy at attacking midfielder, Rashford, Garnacho on the wings, and Højlund up front.
Both teams have suffered injuries to their starting center backs, with Villa's Konsa recently injured and the
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LB Lisandro Martinez was re-injured only three games into his comeback, this time on eight weeks' rest, and both defenses were bad
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Villa initially tried to play on the power play, and the
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Originally waiting for a counter-attacking opportunity, the attacking patterns of the two teams didn't really clash, and at the start Villa had the attack over the
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A couple times, though.
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The defense was kind of careful, and the next thing you know, by the 10-minute mark.
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Gradually the number of counter-attacks began to increase, mainly looking for Garnacho on the right, and Villa, due to the need to press up the attack, the backfield is quite open, Garnacho and Rashford and others sprinting more and more chances.
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After the offense started to get stronger, it created a number of corner kicks, when the
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Starting to show their dominance with Maguire at 194, Varane at 191, Casemiro at 185 and Højlund also at 191.
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In the box there are four pillars can head the ball, and three of them are over 190, in this case Villa's defenders are not short, but their entire back line, I should say the whole team except the goalkeeper no one more than 190, obviously in the header at a disadvantage
even though
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The headers and corners were not high scoring, but when Maguire and Varane were able to play, there was a clear advantage, Villa could not get the ball away from corners to start a counter-attack, and as a result, the ball stayed in the air in Villa's penalty area on a few occasions, and the ball was not able to go away, and finally in the 17th minute.
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On a corner kick from the right side, Maguire was almost one on two in the box, jumping higher than the defenders and barely managed to get the ball to the 6-yard line, at which point Watkins dragged the ball back, and Højlund had the chance to kick the ball into the goal without being offsides, which was still given to the goalkeeper, Martinez, for a breakaway.
After falling behind, Villa started to counter-attack, when the
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Weaknesses in the poor defense also surfaced as Villa kept hitting the ground and penetrating all the way into the
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Waist.
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Neither Casemiro or Mainoo protected their positions very well, and with Villa penetrating quickly, the result was that they were always able to get unguarded space at the top of the box, which resulted in Ramsey, Watkins, and McGinn all getting good shots on goal, with Onana at one point making two great saves to keep from conceding a point.
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The defense still doesn't work, and
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Having been under pressure from Villa's rapid attacks, the number of counterattacks dropped off later, and Villa was clear
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The weakness of the defense is that the defenders are not quick enough to get behind and move, so they try to speed up both the ground ball in and the ball in the air, causing Villa, even if he doesn't get on top.
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This side couldn't clear to it either, making for a very dangerous scene, but
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The back four hadn't yet leaked one-two chances to Villa and were all barely able to restrict the Villa attackers, but at the time the situation continued Villa were likely to score
Villa continued to maintain their attack at the start of the second half, as they began to reduce the number of attacks from the wings and instead both Bailey and Ramsey began to rotate in towards the center of the pitch.
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The weakness of the defense dropping out of position at the waist has been too obvious and Casemiro was crossed many times in the first half and the fact that Villa have started to concentrate on delivering ground balls and no longer playing aerial ball crosses has allowed the
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The back end of the field was so close that within 15 minutes of the start of the second half there had already been at least two near one-twos and more than four free-footed shots from the penalty area.
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In fact, the points should have been dropped in the meantime
Kamara was withdrawn with an injury for Moussa Diaby at the 64 mark, and Villa were intent on reinforcing their attack, and just as intent on attacking hard.
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Villa were next to unleash another onslaught, and after a corner was cleared it was given to Bailey on the right hand side of the box to try and get a direct shot on goal, which hit
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The defender produced a high-speed refraction that bounced right to Douglas Luiz on the six-yard line, who was ready to flick the ball straight at him without stopping to make it a high-speed goal, and Villa tied the game at 1-1!
