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As the new season is getting closer.

Aston Villa's recruitment work is about to end.

During this period, the sports director introduced many powerful stars.

First, the 22-year-old Brazilian striker Wesley was introduced from the Belgian team Bruges, and the team spent 25 million euros on this signing.

It can be said that Aston Villa's highest transfer signing in the summer transfer.

In addition, Aston Villa bought out Mings' contract from Bournemouth, and the transfer cost 22.3 million euros.

At the same time, because Aston Villa midfielder Jedinak chose to retire, the team introduced 21-year-old young midfielder Douglas Luiz from Manchester City, spending 16.8 million euros.

In addition, the team introduced 23-year-old English defender Taggart from Southampton for 15.5 million euros. In addition, the team spent 13.3 million euros to introduce 21-year-old central defender Konsa from the Championship team Brentford, and spent 12 million euros to introduce Zimbabwean international Nakamba from Bruges, etc.

Some people come, and some people leave.

For example, the 34-year-old veteran Jedinak mentioned earlier, the Australian international chose to retire and end his career.

At the same time, 35-year-old Egyptian midfielder Glenn Whelan also left the team. He transferred to Hearts in a free transfer.

And the 34-year-old Scottish defender Hutton also became a free agent after the end of the season.

July 25.

This is the training time for Aston Villa.

Before the training started, coach Dean Smith first asked the newly introduced players to introduce themselves, and then conducted the first training session of the new season.

Since the players have just returned to the team from vacation, their physical condition and competitive state are naturally not ideal.

So.

Coach Dean Smith did not conduct confrontational training at the first time, but rather jogging and strength training.

After two months of rest, many players have already lost their physical shape, and the iconic player is Jack Grealish.

After all, Shaker spent almost every day in the bar during the offseason, and his eight-pack abs are almost invisible.

He seems to have a beer belly.

After about three days of adaptation training, Dean Smith gradually let Aston Villa's players compete in groups.

In this way, the team can adapt to the rhythm of the game as quickly as possible.

Two days later, Aston Villa started their pre-season warm-up match.

The first warm-up match was against Charlton.

The venue of the game was at Aston Villa's training base. The main purpose of this warm-up match was to observe the status of new players and young players.

Therefore, main players such as Xia Yuan, McGinn, and Grealish did not play.

After ninety minutes of fierce confrontation, the score of this game was finally won with 4:1.

The newly introduced 22-year-old striker Wesley completed a hat trick in this warm-up match, and his state was quite hot.

Three days later.

Aston Villa played another warm-up match, which was still mainly to observe young players and new players, and Villa's opponent was Walsall from the English League B.

The final score was 2:1 and won.

For coach Dean Smith, the purpose of these two warm-up matches was just warm-up. Facts have proved that Aston Villa's players are in good competitive condition.

Therefore, in order to hone the skills and tactics of the main players, Aston Villa ushered in the third warm-up match, and this warm-up match was also the last game before the start of the new season.

The team Aston Villa chose was Naples, a team in the Serie A league.

The venue of the game was Aston Villa's home stadium, Villa Park.

Because this warm-up match did not charge fans tickets, there were still quite a lot of fans pouring into the stadium to cheer for Aston Villa.

Dean Smith did not let Xia Yuan start, but Grealish and McGinn, as well as the Brazilian teenager Wesley who performed well in the recent warm-up matches, got the chance to start.

After the start of this warm-up match, Aston Villa played quite passively.

In the first fifteen minutes, they were almost always suppressed by Naples.

Even in the 16th minute of the game.

Naples scored.

This was from the winger Insi

Insigne's breakthrough, although the Italian international is only 163cm tall, his footwork frequency and explosiveness are quite outstanding.

Facing the tall Villa defender, Insigne was able to show his own characteristics.

After continuously cutting in from the left, he shot decisively.

A volley shot penetrated the Aston Villa goal.

The bad news did not stop there.

Five minutes later.

Naples scored the second goal, and the player who scored this time was Callejon.

After receiving a long pass from central defender Maksimovic on the forward line, he used his absolute speed advantage to instantly shake off the defense of Villa central defender Mings and Konsa, and shot with a rub, helping the team lead by two goals.

Although Aston Villa did not send out an absolute starting lineup in this game, their opponent Naples did the same.

Both teams are almost half-main and half-substitute.

However, Aston Villa seemed to have lost its soul after missing Xia Yuan and last season's top scorer, Abraham.

They played quite awkwardly in the game.

Especially Jack Grealish.

His body was still not in the best condition. When he was physically confronted with the players of Naples, Grealish was always the loser...

In the end, at the end of the first half, Aston Villa temporarily fell behind by two goals.

After the start of the second half, Dean Smith immediately replaced Grealish with Xia Yuan.

In an instant, Aston Villa's offense seemed to have found its direction.

In the 67th and 78th minutes, Xia Yuan used two consecutive superb long passes in the midfield and successfully found the 22-year-old new striker Wesley.

The technical characteristics of this young Brazilian striker are actually very similar to Abraham, both of them are tall and have a certain impact.

Wesley is 191cm tall, and he is relatively young, so his explosive power is also good.

In addition, Xia Yuan's long pass had strong penetration, which could be said to have directly torn apart Napoli's defense, giving Wesley a single chance.

Wesley did not waste Xia Yuan's pass.

Both shots were successful.

The score was tied.

In the end, the full-time score of both sides was also fixed at 2:2.

Through this last warm-up match, Dean Smith also understood a truth, that is, Aston Villa is now completely inseparable from Xia Yuan.

After finishing the pre-season warm-up match, Villa began to make final preparations.

On August 11, Aston Villa will usher in the first game of the Premier League, and their opponent is Tottenham Hotspur.