Chapter 16 The Footsteps of the New Season

Chapter 16 The Footsteps of the New Season

Gao Bo was not surprised to win a fifth-level team. What excited Gao Bo was that he saw the potential of this team in the future from this game!

This set of tactics in 2008 can be said to be quite advanced football tactics. With the players at hand, Gao Bo is confident that all English teams will be surprised by Luton.

The team's second warm-up match is a week later, the team came to Brighton, a coastal city in southern England, where they will challenge the League One team Brighton!

It is not easy to be able to contact a team in the first division as a warm-up opponent. After all, Luton is the least optimistic team in the second division, and the seagulls Brighton are considered to be the most promising team this season. One of the first division teams of the British Championship.

This is a team that is also at the top of the league!

Although this game was not a closed game, it did not attract the attention of the media. Now the focus of the English media is on the Premier League. Cristiano Ronaldo, who just won a Champions League trophy for Manchester United, and Real Madrid are rumored After the scandal, Chelsea ushered in the world champion coach Scolari.

And this warm-up match in Brighton will obviously not let those big media notice. In the stands, there were sparsely seated Brighton fans who came to watch the game. In the media booth, there were also several reporters-this was a local reporter from Brighton. The news about this warm-up match may only be the two sides. Fans will be interested in it.

In fact, Brighton chose to warm up with Luton. Before the start of the season, they would find a weak team to warm up and use a big win to welcome the idea of ​​​​the new season.

However, Brighton obviously underestimated Luton's strength in this game. At their home, Luton's frontcourt pressure made Brighton very uncomfortable.

In the second minute of the game, Luton scored.

This time, it was the team's midfield interception expert Kante who scored the goal. At that time, Brighton pressed heavily on the offense, but Kante succeeded in stealing it in the middle. After stealing the ball in midfield, Kante took the ball all the way to the front of the penalty area. , After seeing the opponent's defense being pulled apart by Luton's two forwards, Kante simply took a kick.

A powerful long-range shot broke through the goalkeeper's fingers and helped Luton take the lead.

Gao Bo, who saw the goal on the sidelines, was lit up. In fact, Kante's long-range shooting attribute reached 63. Although this attribute is not too high, in the second league, the ability of this long-range shooting is already relatively high. Excellent, and more importantly, Kanter is only seventeen years old this year. Maybe he should let Kanter strengthen his long-range shooting practice?

Gao Bo rubbed his chin and thought.

Kante, who scored the goal, ran to the sidelines and jumped into Gao Bo's arms.

For this black boy, Gao Bo is a gift to him. He excavated him from the French amateur team, took him to England across the strait, and almost unconditionally trusted his ability, from training to Judging from the arrangement of the warm-up match, Gao Bo used Kante as the absolute main force.

"Thank you, coach!!"

Kanter's English is not yet proficient, but this sentence does come from the heart.

Gao Bo laughed and touched the back of Kante's head.

"This is what you deserve, boy, you have such strength!!"

"Also, remember to call me the boss in the future!!"

Gao Bo touched the top of his head and said.

"Yes! Boss!!"

Kanter grinned, revealing a row of big white teeth.

Before the sparse Brighton fans in the stands were getting hot ass, their team conceded the goal. Brighton's players were also a little confused. The opponent scored a goal at the beginning of the game, which really made them feel a little depressed.

Originally, Brighton wanted to pick a soft persimmon and give themselves a little more confidence. Of course, they were not willing to lose this warm-up match easily.

So in the next game, Brighton pressed heavily.

Luton's side is shrinking the defense line, and the airtight middle defense makes Brighton's side only find opportunities through the wing.

And Luton's defense is not a pure bus defense. They put so much pressure on every ball-handler that even on the wing, Brighton is difficult to organize an attack.

The second goal came quickly.

After Drinkwater teamed up with Mitchell Piran to steal the ball on the wing, Drinkwater looked at Vardy's position in the frontcourt, and then he launched a long pass directly.

A quick pass to hit the opponent behind, this is the routine Luton has been emphasizing all this time.

Vardy's cheetah-like speed made him quickly throw off the Brighton central defender, and then his handling was even more nerve-wracking. Facing the incoming ball behind him, Vardy adjusted his pace, and then hung his right foot directly on the ball. In the middle of the ball, an elevator ball hung in the air!

In the face of such a shot, Brighton's goalkeeper seemed helpless!

Two to zero! !

For this goal, Gao Bo was not too excited. He knew that Vardy has such ability. When he is full of confidence, he can always score such a world wave.

However, John Aston next to him was stunned by Vardy's shot...

"At that moment I seemed to see Van Basten..." This is what John Aston wrote in his autobiography years later.

At this time, John was only shocked by this goal, his mouth was so open that he could put an egg, and he even drooled out. He didn't even know it... Of course, such a shameful thing John did not write in. in his autobiography.

Brighton at home are behind by two goals, but they still have no good way to defend Luton. Kante is quite active in midfield. For Brighton, Kante in midfield is almost insurmountable. of a moat.

And Luton's third goal didn't take too long. In the 38th minute of the first half, captain Kevin Keane got a shot from the right side of the penalty area. .

In the second half, Gao Bo did not make large-scale substitutions. He just replaced Charlie Austin with high center Matt Schmidt. Gao Bo needs to form a tacit understanding between the three forwards. This season Gao Bo can use These are the three forwards. Although it looks a little thin, Gao Bo doesn't have many resources on hand, so he barely uses it.

Matt Schmidt's characteristic is very obvious, that is, his height, there are not many strikers with a height of 198 cm on the football field. But his shortcomings are also obvious, his mobility, his speed, his mobility are far less than Charlie Austin.

However, Gao Bo believes that Matt is the team's weapon when facing the opponent's intensive defense. Many teams like to put a high center on the bench, which is not unreasonable. Luton's fourth goal came from Matt's header assist. Luton's counterattack directly found the top of Matt's head, and then Matt's header rubbed the ball to the feet of Vardy, who was successful against offside. .

In the face of a single-handed opportunity, Vardy easily pushed a dead corner and turned the score into four to zero!

The good performance in the warm-up game boosted the morale of Luton, and then Luton also played several warm-up games one after another. Gao Bo also tried different formations and personnel in this series of warm-up games. Therefore, this series of warm-up teams The results have fluctuated.

However, the warm-up has always been used for the team to run in the lineup and identify problems, so Gao Bo does not value the results of the warm-up match.

What he really needs is a victory in the official game!

With the passage of time, the footsteps of the new season have also come.