At the start, Mane and Salah flew on both wings

In the post-match interview, Zhou Xu and Vardy, the best player in the game, faced the reporters' sniping shots.

The Daily Mirror reporter first asked,"Coach Zhou Xu, your team defeated Bolton and successfully advanced to the fifth round of the FA Cup. What is your goal this season?""

"Victory, our goal is victory."

After that, Zhou Xu gestured to the next question.

The latter question has little to do with Notts County. As a Chinese head coach, Zhou Xu actually did not participate in many post-match interviews. If it were not for the fourth round of the FA Cup There is a lot of attention in China, and Zhou Xu will not participate either.

"After Notts County's magical defeat of Chelsea, Chelsea, who returned to the league, lost 1:2 to Newcastle United, giving up the initiative to compete for the championship this season. What does coach Zhou Xu think of this matter?"

What do you think? Look at it with a smile. Let Boas do all the work on me, and something will go wrong in the next scene. Of course, Zhou Xu can't answer like this

"I won't comment on things that have nothing to do with the team."

Reporters who want to make some news are a little helpless. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that Chelsea's loss to Newcastle has something to do with Villas-Boas's defeat to Notts County in the League Cup. Unfortunately, Zhou Xu didn't say anything.

Win against Bolton Finally, there is one game left in Notts County's January schedule. On

January 31, the day when the winter transfer window ends, Notts County will play Portsmouth in the second leg of the League Cup semi-finals at Farton Park.

After looking at the follow-up schedule, Zhou Xu had to lament the screwed-up English League One schedule. In the 12 days from January 31st to February 11th, Notts County had 4 games, an average of one every 3 days. The solution is that Notts County's training is now focused on restoring physical strength. After all, the schedule is too intensive.

Due to the intensive schedule, Zhou Xu also tried his best to rotate players, some of whom cannot be named. The U18 players were also brought into the starting lineup by him. In this game, the only players in the first team were Alisson, Fred, Wang Chu, Ali and B Fei. The other players were the children brought up by Zhou Xu from the U18 team.

With a high pass and Wang Chu's long-range shot, Notts County defeated Portsmouth 1:2 in the away game with a total score of 7:2 and advanced to the semi-finals of the League Cup on the other side. Everton 3:2 in two rounds. 2 defeated Newcastle, Notts County and Everton will meet at Wembley to determine the winner of this season's League Cup.

Before the winter window closed, Zhou Xu noticed a transfer news, Charlton's Pope. With a transfer fee of 1.6 million euros and a floating clause of 400,000 euros, he joined West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League.

After all, he went the same way. Pope can only be the third goalkeeper at West Bromwich Albion, but Zhou Xu is not the same. I feel that Pope made the wrong choice. After all, it is the Premier League, and the appeal is still very strong.

In the subsequent three League One games, Notts County won all easily. Notts County won 33 and drew 1 in 34 games, which was just right. The achievement of 100 points in the English League One.

Unfortunately, the intensive games eventually caused problems for the players. Wang Chu strained his calf muscle during training and he missed one month of competition, which meant that he would not be able to make it to February 26. Cancelo was also injured during the game against Everton at Wembley.

He strained his abdominal muscles due to an emergency stop during the game. His injury was more serious than Wang Chu's and he will be out for at least 6 weeks. time.

On February 18, Notts County visited Portland Stadium and played against Rochdale, currently ranked 15th in League One.

Zhou Xu thought it was an easy game before the game, but in Rochdale. Under the fierce defense, it was not until the 62nd minute of the game that B Fee assisted Vardy to score with a free kick.

After losing the ball, Rochdale still defended tenaciously. They paid the price of 8 yellow cards and allowed Notts County to score. Scored 1 goal.

This game made Zhou Xu realize the shortcomings of his team. In a situation where Rochdale was not worried about receiving yellow cards, the game was fragmented by Rochdale's foul. If Cijun can't get into its own rhythm, it's easy to get lost and find no scoring opportunities.

Although their previous opponents were also defensive, they would try to attack. Rochdale didn't do that at all. They would only look for opportunities through free kicks or corner kicks. Other times it’s just a tough press.

On February 22, Notts County welcomed 11th-ranked Walsall. Zhou Xu led the players to Bescot Stadium, and Notts County challenged 11th-ranked Walsall.

For the League Cup final at Wembley four days later, Zhou Xu sent most of his substitute players for this game.

Relying on Mahrez's inward goal and B Fee's magical kick, Notts County won 2:0 and continued their undefeated journey in English League One.

With this victory, Notts County were promoted to the Championship 10 rounds ahead of schedule.

Notts County did not have time to celebrate promotion, they are fully preparing for the game against Everton.

In the office, Zhou Xu and Laura carefully studied and analyzed Everton.

Everton currently ranks 12th in the Premier League, with 8 wins, 6 draws and 12 losses in 26 games.

Everton has the highest header success rate in the entire Premier League because Everton has former Shandong Taishan player Fellaini, former Shanghai Shenhua and Zhejiang player Cahill, Phil Jagauca, Johnny Heitinga and others. Heading masters.

Everton, under the coaching of Moyes, mainly plays a 433 tactical formation. The tactics are the same as Zhou Xu's. They organize the offense through high-pressure pressing and require an immediate counterattack after losing the ball. However, compared to Zhou Xu, Moyes is on the wing. There is not much investment, mainly through the advancement of the center and the header from the set piece to score.

The point Zhou Xu can target is the 32-year-old Tim Howard. Although the 32-year-old goalkeeper still reacts quickly, the decline in his jumping ability has reduced his ability to dominate the air. He often reacts to long-range shots but fails to pounce. Zhou Xu decided to focus on this situation and let Pogba take more long-range shots to test the situation.���Look at this Howard.

On February 26, nearly 100,000 seats at Wembley Stadium were packed, and about 20,000 Notts County fans came to Wembley to support the team.

At the pre-match press conference, when asked how to deal with Everton's heading tactics, Zhou Xu confidently said that we have the excellent Maguire.

When the Everton coach was asked what he thought of Notts County entering the final, he showed considerable respect. He said that no matter what the result, Notts County's ability to enter the final deserves everyone's respect, but the final winner will It's them Everton.

Since Notts County won the FA Cup in 1894, this is the first time in 118 years that they have entered the cup final involving England's top league teams. This is also the first time in Notts County's 161-year history. , they reached the League Cup final for the first time.

On the other hand, this is also their first possible League Cup title in the 145-year history of their team, although they have won 9 English top league titles, 1 European Cup Winners' Cup, 5 English FA Cups and as many as 9 The English Community Shield was held twice, but they never won the English League Cup.