At the start, Mane and Salah flew on both wings

The midfield partnership is team captain Stilian Petrov and Jermaine Jenas.

Petrov, who hails from Bulgaria, is Aston Villa's on-field captain and captain of the Bulgarian national team. At the age of 32, his body has declined severely and he has very obvious captaincy and leadership qualities. In addition, his passing ability is very strong, and he often makes wonderful passes. Zhou Xu’s memory of Petrov is that he suddenly had fever symptoms and was diagnosed with acute leukemia during a Premier League game in March of this season, and then retired.

Jenas, an England international, was a talented British midfielder when he was young and won the British Professional Footballers Association's Best Rookie. It's a pity that he failed to fully unleash his potential and even gradually became mediocre. Now only 29 years old, his body has declined. Although he can still gain a foothold in the Premier League, he can only be regarded as an ordinary player.

The left winger position is Gabriel Agbonlahor.

Agbonlahor has very good speed, and he can hit all over the place with one move.

His amazing starting speed allows him to easily throw away defenders.

However, after being guarded by Shuai Kou, his shooting was somewhat lacking, and he was always unable to seize the fleeting opportunities.

His physical fitness is good, but his skills are rough.

He has a good football intelligence and can often move forward at the right time.

He has scored 16 goals in all competitions this season and is the team's leading scorer.

The right winger is Charles N'Zogbia, a French player of Congolese origin. N'Zogbia is also very fast, but unlike Agbonlahor, he mainly plays crosses from the wing as a winger, rather than cutting in himself like Agbonlahor. His dribbling is very good, averaging more than 4 dribbles per 90 minutes in the Premier League. However, like most African or African-American players, he has no other characteristics except explosiveness. His skills are too rough.

The starting forward is Darren Bent, who has played 13 times for the England national team and scored 4 goals. Like his two winger teammates, Bente is also very fast, but in addition to speed, Bente also has a very good ability to predict the placement. He can always receive passes from teammates and convert them into goals. Unlike Agbonlahor, he was always able to seize the fleeting opportunities.

Visiting team locker room.

Zhou Xu looked at Mane and Salah who were ready to move, and began to talk about his pre-match arrangements.

"Aston Villa's troika, Agbonlahor, N'Zogbia and Carter, should not have any reservations about the defense of these three people. The fierce pressing must not allow him to easily complete the pass, at least let him After he passes you, he can't comfortably dribble and mark you closely. If he passes you, I don't advocate violent fouls, but you can use tactical fouls such as pulling to stop his attack.

Aston Villa's entire team's biggest weakness at left-back, Salah, breaks through him. It doesn't mean to get rid of him, but to break through him and explode him. Aston Villa has no full-backs. My request is that you turn Aston Villa's left wing into your corridor. At least Aston Villa's left center back Pedro Enrique also To defend you.

Kante, your focus in midfield is Petrov. The Bulgarian captain has a very good pass. Maguire must also pay attention to his long pass and make sure not to be hit behind. But Kanter, don't press Petrov too hard.

In short, today's game is purely head-to-head, and I want to vaccinate you in advance. Losing is normal, even Bayern in the Bundesliga can lose to Saarbrücken in the Bundesliga 3, let alone a low-level team like us.

But we are not without a chance of winning. Needless to say, we were upset in the League Cup. In the FA Cup, Bury of the English League Two also defeated Everton 2:1. In the 1990-91 season, we were in fifth place. Woking in the Premier League eliminated West Bromwich Albion in the top league. In short, what we need to do is try our best and leave the rest to God. come on!"

After Zhou Xu cheered up his players, he led the players onto the Villa Park stadium, and the fifth round of the FA Cup began. In the 11th minute of the game, Notts County took the lead in scoring.

Notts County once In the attack from the backcourt, Shane Lawrie, who had been trained twice by the military, did not dare to grab Salah for fear of being passed by the Egyptian boy again. Salah received the ball without interference and then passed it. There was no interference from a long pass, and the ball flew to the feet of Mane on the other side.

Hutton was brave and faced the young Mane who underestimated the opponent. He chose to grab it and stretched his foot towards the ball. He hooked it, but Mane dunked the ball, changed direction and accelerated past Hutton. He had no choice but to reach out and grab Mane, but he didn't expect that Mane would also pass the ball while he was being dragged. The two central defenders were staring at

Vardy, and it was already too late when they found Pogba advancing. However, Pogba also made a mistake after receiving the ball. He hesitated between passing the ball and shooting. Dunn blocked Pogba's position and could not pass or shoot. He could only pass back.

Mane took control of the ball first. He faked a shot and passed the ball to seat B next to him. Dunn, Hutton and even Markoun and goalkeeper Guzan on the back line were all guarding against Mane's long shot, so Seat B easily scored exactly the same goal in the same position as Rodri's Champions League goal.

"The ball went in, and the giant killer Notts County's FA Cup journey continued. They scored in the 11th minute of the game and led Aston Villa from the Premier League 1:0."

After scoring the goal, B席 excitedly slid on his knees to celebrate, and waved his arms after standing up. This was his fourth goal in the FA Cup this season. The midfielder had not scored a goal for a while before. Especially in English League One, he only had one goal, which made him receive some criticism. Now this goal can be said to have slapped the faces of those who were pessimistic about B席.

Zhou Xu was excited on the sidelines, jumping around like a little kid.

Unfortunately, he didn't stay happy for too long. In the 31st minute of the game, Aston Villa scored.

The ball came from Hutton's long pass. Bent carried Kante to catch the ball, and then a wonderful Cruyff turned around to pass Kante. He immediately pulled to the side and accelerated to prepare to go to the bottom. Stones and Robertson were defending him. He hasn't come back yet after getting in.

Stones wanted to steal the ball before Bent, so he kicked. But Bent also knew that Stones didn't want him to break into the penalty area, so he pulled the ball back when Stones kicked it, and then lobbed the ball into the penalty area.

In front of the goal, Jenas took the ball with his right foot and immediately passed it out, because Kante was already sticking to him. Zhou

Xu on the sidelines secretly thought that it was not good, no one was watching Agbonlahor. He received the ball safely, cut inside and was about to shoot. Alisson predicted and chose to save the far corner, but Agbonlahor also gave Notts County a fake shot and a real pass, and he passed the ball horizontally to Petrov in the heart of the penalty area. Petrov accepted the gift with a smile and pushed the ball into the empty goal.

After scoring, Petrov rushed to the sidelines to accept the cheers of the fans.

"Cheer up, the game is just back to the same starting line, focus. Robertson, reducing the number of insertions, helps the defense on the left side."Zhou Xu encouraged the players and asked Robertson not to penetrate too deep, which would result in him being scored before he could return to his defensive position.

"Aston Villa's goal came. Just 4 minutes after the last goal, Aston Villa scored again."

Enrique advanced with the ball in the backcourt, and he advanced directly to near the midfield.

""Defend! Vardy, grab him, what are you doing!" At this time, Zhou Xu could only shout, and Vardy suddenly realized what was happening and immediately went to restrict Enrique.

But Enrique had already advanced to a sufficient position, and he made a long pass before Vardy got close, and N'Zobbia and Niemann on the wing immediately started a 100-meter race. Enrique's pass was just right, and it just landed at N'Zobbia's feet, and it was another one-on-one defense on the wing.

Although Niemann made a tackle, he failed to intercept the ball. N'Zobbia successfully made a cross from the bottom, and Abang Laho in front of the goal directly dribbled past Robertson and headed the ball into the goal. The

Nottingham Forest players who were overtaken by the score were a little disappointed, especially after being scored two goals in 5 minutes.

"Be on defense!"Zhou Xu was a little anxious. There were still more than ten minutes left in the game. It would be a bit difficult to make a comeback if he was defeated.

"The first half of the game is over. Aston Villa scored two goals in a row and reversed the score. Now it depends on coach Zhou Xu's adjustments during the halftime break."