The English club is looking for a candidate to replace Steven Gerrard as manager, after his sudden dismissal following Aston Villa’s 3-0 loss to Fulham
The Birmingham team occupies seventeenth place in the Premier League with nine points, tied with Wolverhampton, a team that marks the beginning of relegation positions
The Aston-Villa seems not to raise his head since the beginning of the season and already sees the relegation places as a reality only saved by goal difference, which allows Birmingham to move one place above Wolves, who occupy 18tha position in the league and the first place in the red zone of the classification.
The club announced last Monday, after the resounding defeat against Fulham by 3-0, the dismissal of Steven Gerrard as coach of the team.
The English coach has only achieved two victories in the 11 Premier League games played, and has accumulated 6 defeatssome of them leaving a very poor image on the pitch, and he has taken a point in two other games.
The end of the 21/22 campaign was already an ordeal for Gerrard as team coach. Despite the great start to the season, he was boosted by the incorporation of Coutinho In the winter market, Aston Villa ended last season with many doubts on the pitch.
The order and discipline that characterized “the villains“in the early stages it faded away, giving way to a gray team and without ideas in attack.
The Aston-Villa now faces an uncertain period, with the urgency of finding a new coach to take the team out of relegation towards the ‘quiet’ zone of the table. Mauricio Pochettino is one of the favorites to take over from Gerrard, with a long career in elite clubs such as PSG either Tottenhamwhere he reached a Champions League final in 2019. The Argentine’s competitive nature and his more than proven practical game in England would be of interest to the club’s board.
Last-minute rumors in the British country also point to Thomas Frank, coach who took Brentford to the Premier League and maintains it with a showy attacking game, as another of the candidates to take over the position of Villa coach. Despite the interest, Frank’s departure from his team seems highly unlikely, with a project in hand. full effervescence.Ruben Amorim, coach of Sporting de Portugal, could be covered according to the latest reports from “The Athletic”. The Portuguese coach would be winning integers in the last few hours to take over the position.
Aston Villa Football Club can confirm that Head Coach Steven Gerrard has left the club with immediate effect.
— Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) October 20, 2022
The club’s position in the table does not reflect the quality of the squad, with great players in all its lines of play. Carving Names Douglas Luiz, Ollie Watkins, Josh McGinn, Buendia either Philippe Coutinho These are just some of the personalities that make up the team, many of them with a status worthy of a “Top Six” of the Premier League.
What used to be a cocktail of attacking players who offered fun and purposeful play is now a team with Many difficulties to build offensive plays and with serious problems converting their chances into goals, despite the presence of strikers like Danny Ings on point. Aston Villa has only found a target seven timesvery poor records against such a range of attackers.
In the defensive section the team has fit 16 goals, records that are not so alarming compared to the league average, but their fragility to receive threats from the rival with a lot of danger towards their goal is. One of the determining factors that explain this weakness is the drop in Diego Charles, defender who arrived last summer from Sevilla for an amount of 31 million euros.
The Brazilian center-back landed in Birmingham with the aim of strengthening the axis of the defense with players like mings either Konsahand players like the ex-blaugrana worthy either Ashley Young by the bands. His absence for the entire season will be a headache for Aston Villa with a list of defenses heavily affected by injuries.
Aston Villa needs to find solutions for what is one of the clubs that has invested the most money in recent transfer markets, with an expense of more than 460 million euros in registrations.
The coach who takes charge of the team must make decisions to keep the villains from the relegation zone and make permanence possible to a historic Premier League, in which it is his fourth consecutive season in the top competition after promotion from the Championship in 2019.