The battle for the top spot in the Premier League has only just begun.

The time has entered the end of November, and the fifteenth round of the Premier League is in full swing.

Of the top three teams, Manchester United host Everton, Chelsea take on Bolton Wanderers away, while Manchester City face Aston Villa in an away game.

Aston Villa aren't a strong team, but they are not to be underestimated.

Aston Villa have made headlines in the British press several times this summer, which is not good news for a team that was on the verge of relegation last season.

In the summer of July, Aston Villa's players staged a mutiny and club president Ellis fired manager O'Reilly in a rage.

However, Ellis continues to scapegoat coaches and players and can no longer pass on the crisis, and fans know better that he is the root cause of Villa's sluggish results in recent years, and the 82-year-old chairman has long lost his passion and ambition for the development of the team, and has been trying to sell the club - Aston Villa has been in the London Stock Exchange since October last year.

The player's 'mutiny' sparked a 'reverse Ellis movement'.

In July and August, the slogan "Ellis is gone" can be seen everywhere in Birmingham, and the Villa fan group has publicly issued a declaration asking Ellis to leave with dignity and let the more capable young people inject fresh blood into the team's management, and former Villa player Gibson has also publicly stated that it is time for Ellis to step down.

However, in mid-August, after spending up to 15 months caring for his ailing wife, Irishman Martin O'Neill stepped out last weekend to officially become Aston Villa's new manager.

This is also the 14th head coach appointed by Chairman Ellis.

The 54-year-old has also been a favourite to become the new manager of England, Newcastle and Middlesbrough. The British media then also commented on O'Neill's entry into the house to "awaken the sleeping giant of Vera again".

Soon the news of the Aston Villa deal also came to the news, with American sports mogul and professional baseball browns owner Randy Lerner "eating" a 57% stake in Aston Villa for 547 pence per share, thus becoming the club's largest shareholder, with the entire acquisition valued at £62.6 million ($119 million).

Lerner is the former chairman of the board of directors of MBNA, a U.S. credit card company, and the acquisition was successful. It also makes him the second owner of an American sports tycoon to enter the Premier League.

After being bought by the Americans, Aston Villa are in no hurry to make a big transfer.

It is clear to everyone that Lerner is a rich American and very good at investing in sports, but he has not made a big change to Aston Villa, two newcomers Yago and D-Veron have moved freely from the lower leagues, and only De La Cruz has left after the termination of the first team, and the only transfer worth talking about is the signing of Petrov for 10 million euros. Neither too much nor too little, Petrov who plays for Celtic is still worth the price.

The deal was also hailed by the media as "the most valuable transfer of the year in the Premier League".

Sadly, the Bulgarian striker doesn't seem to be well suited to the Premier League and has lived up to the media's expectations, playing as a defender at Aston Villa and often as a striker, but he has only scored one goal in 13 league appearances so far.

Aston Villa's overall performance wasn't too bad. So far, they are in tenth place in the league, which is not bad at all compared to the previous and summer investment, which is a headache. This team has been a bit like Everton and McLaren's Middlesbrough this season, with their performances being inconsistent, with the possibility of losing directly at home to the smaller clubs or beating the big clubs on the road.

Such an opponent is not easy to deal with.

Around the time of Christmas. It's the best time to fight for the top spot, so everyone in Manchester City, including Wan Sheng, takes every round of the league very seriously. The same is true for Aston Villa, before the game, the coaching staff carefully studied Aston Villa's recent games, and then specified some defensive strategies in order to counterattack Aston Villa, and at the same time, Wan Sheng also carefully paid attention to the state of each player, and tried to make the best players play when they played.

However, it has been proven that even relying on the Soccer Trainer system cannot produce the best line-up, because the form of the players can change due to external influences.

For example, a player is in very good condition before the game, but affected by the opponent's defense, there will be some changes in his body and mentality, which will directly affect the state, from very good to very poor state, the two extremes may just be a small change in mentality.

In the game against Aston Villa, Manchester City faced that situation.

In Villa Park, Aston Villa began to do solid defense and fierce scrambling in the first minute of the score, Manchester City has long been accustomed to the opponent's defensive action, but even if it is used to it, there will be fire, especially in several fierce scrambles, after the referee showed yellow cards in a row, the anger of the players on both sides was provoked.

The next game was about to turn into hand-to-hand combat, and it was difficult for both sides to play any coordinated tactics.

This kind of game continued until the end of the half-time.

At halftime, Wan Sheng carefully told everyone not to be affected by the opponent's performance and to show a normal heart, but in the first three minutes, a big tackle by Kopelle Ferreira completely turned his statement into empty talk, and the referee Kohler directly showed a yellow card to Ferreira, plus the yellow card in the first half, Ferreira accumulated two yellow cards and was sent off.

A red card is still very intimidating, and the next moves of both sides have been reined in, but Manchester City have already had to deal with ten men.

Aston Villa felt it was a good opportunity because they had one more man than Manchester City, but after a few waves of attacking and almost disrupted by Manchester City's quick counter-attack, Aston Villa were also much more calm in attack, and they paid more attention to their defense, and as a result, both sides behaved amiably in the second half of the second half, as if they were playing a 'friendly match'.

This is the end of the game.

In the end, the two sides drew 0-0, and Manchester City only took a point away at Villa Park......

Manchester City didn't win, and the media reporters thought it was something to watch.

Normally, whenever City do well, their young manager will smile and say a lot of things, and many hostile Manchester City media will feel very uncomfortable about this. Now that Manchester City have drawn, they have reason to gloat, in their imagination, Manchester City failed to get three points, the Chinese must be very unhappy, and they were disappointed again.

Wan Sheng was not in a good mood, but he was still calm.

He was a little unhappy with Aston Villa's 'savagery', but he also knew that this could not be changed, and the style of each team was like this, and Aston Villa would not change his style because he was dissatisfied. In addition, the game is over, and there is no point in talking about it, so Wan Sheng just said very calmly, "One point, for us, is also acceptable, I don't think one point equals defeat, because we didn't lose!" ”

This view surprised many media outlets. In the period of fierce competition for the championship, only one point against the mid-table team is equivalent to defeat, so what does this Chinese mean?

It didn't take long for the media to react. Ten thousand wins refer to Manchester City's overall results - so far in 15 league games, Manchester City are unbeaten in 15 consecutive games!

Even if it's a draw, only one point is obtained. Manchester City didn't lose either, and a 15-game unbeaten run is definitely not easy to get, but City did it.

A 15-game unbeaten run in the league is enough to satisfy Manchester City fans!

As last season's league champion. This season's defending champions, Manchester City, have not fallen behind so far, which is a success in itself, but what is a draw compared to?

In this game, Manchester City's overall performance was not very good, but you can't ask a team to perform well every game!

In short, as Manchester City's manager, the young Chinese has many reasons to be satisfied with taking a point, but there is no reason to be disappointed by a draw, but the media reporters who were expecting to see Wan Sheng unhappy because of the draw were all disappointed.

Wansheng really didn't disappoint.

It's just a draw, there are so many games in the league that it is impossible to ask the team to win them all, not to mention, there is also a factor of bad luck in this draw, the team had good chances in both halves, and there were three shots off the post, and even one of them would have won the eventual victory.

It's just a pity that no.

Play and luck together decided that the team could only take one point.

It's as if the God who governs everything decides something, and no matter how hard a mortal tries to do it, it has no effect...... After watching the game, Wan Sheng thought a little so.

He has always wanted his team to win in a row, and this is also related to the football trainer's winning streak this season, and as a result, the team has always been on a winless streak of 12 league games so far, with a maximum of five wins in a row.

It's really frustrating!

Wan Sheng smiled bitterly......

At the same time, the other matches of the 15th round of the Premier League have also come to an end.

In the focus of the battle, Manchester United won Everton 3:0 at Old Trafford, perhaps affected by the last draw with Chelsea, the anger of Manchester United players was all vented on Everton, as a result, all the players of Manchester United did not perform much, C-Ronaldo scored the first goal, Evra scored the first goal after joining Manchester United to expand the score, and finally O'Shea added the icing on the cake.

It was United's eighth win in their last nine league games!

Ferguson's happy look after the game also fully illustrates Manchester United's performance, of course, the opposite is David Moyes's gloomy expression, Everton can almost be described as 'slaughtered' in the game, although they are not the Premier League's 'first-team team', but Everton is also a strong team, and it is still very unpleasant to be beaten 3:0 by Manchester United.

Chelsea, meanwhile, also took all three points away with a controversial goal at the Reebok Stadium.

1-0, another typical Mourinho-style victory.

Chelsea are still three points clear of Manchester United, but the Portuguese sees a bright future ahead of them: 'I don't think it will be long before we are the leaders of the league. ”

The Bolton players were reluctant to accept the defeat as they thought Ballack's goal was problematic. In the second and a half minutes of first-half stoppage time, Frank Lampard whipped in a corner from the left and Ballack got ahead of Davies and headed into the far corner.

The controversy over the goal was not about the way Balague scored the goal, but about the timing of the goal. The fourth official showed two minutes of stoppage time before the end of the first half, but referee Bennett blew the whistle to end the first half and delayed it by half a minute.

However, Bolton Wanderers boss Sam Allardyce was calm enough to accept the fact that the referee's decision to allow Chelsea to take a corner was fair.

'The referees never blow the whistle to finish a game when a team is about to take a corner and it costs us, but Chelsea should have taken the lead in the first half, although we had plenty of chances in the second half. Allardyce points to the point.

It was Ballack's third league goal, and without exception, those goals were headers.

Since the arrival of the German, he has replaced captain John Terry as the player with the most headers in the Chelsea squad. Ballack also received the highest score in recent media after the game, the German may still be a long way from becoming the core of the team, or in Mourinho's tactical system, such a day has never been arranged for him, but it cannot be ignored that he has gone from being a redundant man on the verge of the edge to becoming the one who decides the fate of the team more and more often.

Jose Mourinho had said before the game that his side would never repeat Arsenal's mistake of capsizing at the Reebok Stadium.

The win clearly gave him a double boost of confidence, so much so that the Portuguese shouted the slogan "on the verge of being number one in the league" after the game.

'At Old Trafford and Reebok, we had two tough games. We could have dropped eight points after those two games, but luckily things stayed the same. Going forward, it will be the turn of Manchester United and Manchester City to fight fiercely. Mourinho spoke with a palpable schadenfreude.

The media knew what he was referring to.

Chelsea have already gone through a number of big battles, and both Manchester United and Manchester United have one game yet to play, and that is a direct clash between the two teams in 17 rounds of the league.

After this round, Manchester United continued to lead the league and remained at the top of the league, Manchester City fell two points to second place, Chelsea are one point lower than Manchester City in third place, and in the seventeenth round, Manchester United and Manchester City play each other, no matter who wins or loses, Chelsea can almost move forward one place.

Mourinho must be happy when he thinks about it, he doesn't have to do anything, he just watches. (To be continued.) )