Chapter 197 The Opponents of the Europa League 32 (51/15514)

Chapter 197: The Europa League Top 32 Rivals

The doping incident has caused a lot of media discussion.

On the England side, many media are speaking for Luton. After all, Luton is also a team on England's side. What's more, the UEFA Disciplinary Committee decided to punish the Luton players just because of the Roma's report. Carrying out a full urine test shows that the UEFA Disciplinary Committee is also suspicious of Luton, a third-tier team.

"This is a big deal. If it was Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, or any other team in the Premier League that beat Roma, the Disciplinary Committee would never make such a fuss even if it received a report. This only shows that, In the psychology of many people, Luton from the English League One is not worthy of beating Roma. It is a pity that Gao Bo's team slapped them a few times with their performance on the pitch. Even if there are many small actions off the pitch , In the end, they still lost!" "Sky Sports" said in the report.

On the Italian side, the news about whether Luton used doping has been reported by many media.

After all, after the intervention of the Disciplinary Committee, whether Luton used doping or not, this matter will be more and more dark after the media renders it.

But in the end, when the results of the Disciplinary Committee came out, Luton was finally exchanged for his innocence.

The Luton players did not use any illicit drugs.

Later, the Italian media broke the news that Luton used ammonia gas to refresh the players before the game.

However, the media in England quickly retorted: This only shows that Luton is good at chemistry. Ammonia is not a prohibited drug, but a physical method to improve players' attention.

The media were clamoring, but for Luton, the next schedule is still very dense, at least Gao Bo has no time to fight in the media.

The Europa League game is over, and the next thing to focus on is the domestic competition.

Back in England, November was packed with fixtures as the FA Cup games started to come.

There are a total of six games in the next November, and Luton's form has seen some ups and downs, maintaining a record of four wins and one loss in six games! The FA Cup has reached the third round, and the league ranking has surpassed Leeds United and ranked second in the league.

On November 9, the first round of the FA Cup, Luton played against South Allianz away, Luton won 1-0!

On November 14th, in the 16th round of the league, the team suffered a draw away from home. Luton challenged Oldham away from home. The team was besieged for 90 minutes without scoring a goal, zero to zero! The game also allowed the team to be opened up in points by the top two rivals.

On November 18, the 17th round of the league saw a 3-0 home game against Bristol Rovers; on November 21, a 1-0 home league match against Yeoville.

On November 24th, the team suffered their second defeat of the season on the road. In the nineteenth round of the league, Luton lost 1-2 away to Leyton Orient. So far the team has played 19 rounds of the league with 13 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses, with 46 points, one point behind Charlton and the same point as Leeds, ranking second in the league with a goal difference advantage. .

On November 28th, in the second round of the FA Cup, Luton beat Bolton Albion 1-0 at home and reached the third round. In the third round of the draw that night, Luton drew his sworn enemy, Watford.

The match against arch-rivals is of course an important game, but the third round of the FA Cup is still a month away, so the team basically doesn't have to think about the FA Cup game now.

After this FA Cup, the fifth round of the Europa League group stage comes one after another, with Luton facing CSKA Sofia at home. Although the team has qualified now, in order to ensure the first place in the group, the team cannot relax in the group stage game.

However, CSKA Sofia also failed to threaten Luton. Luton, who played at home, performed very well.

In the Europa League, the players seem to be working extra hard.

In the first half of the game, Griezmann and Vardy made contributions to the team respectively. In the second half, Matt Schmidt, who came off the bench, scored twice with two headers. In the end, Luton scored 4-0 at home. Win CSKA Sofia.

At this time, in another arena, Roma defeated Basel 2-0 at home, retaining a glimmer of hope of qualifying, and because Basel lost, Luton locked the first place in the group one round ahead of schedule.

Next is the domestic league. Since there are 46 rounds in the first division, Luton, who wants to participate in the Europa League, has been compressed very closely. They have to play two games almost every week. Contest.

Fortunately, Gao Bo is getting more and more handy in rotation. On December 5th, in the 20th round of the league, Luton, who played as a semi-main force, beat Carlisle United 1-0 at home. In the 20th round, Luton, who was also half-main and half-substitute, defeated Huddersfield 2-1 away and continued to remain in the first group in the standings.

On December 16, the last game of the Europa League group stage, the team played away to Basel.

Before the start of this game, the Roman media, who had taken over a lot of beams with Luton before, praised Luton a lot at this time. They hoped that Luton could defeat Basel on the road, so that Roma could have a chance to turn over.

However, Gao Bo will not change the plan of this game because of this.

In this game, Gao Bo did not even bring a main force to the away game. The substitute players started the game, and the players on the bench were promoted by the youth team.

In fact, for Basel, they can't take the first place in the group even if they win, so they only need to ensure a draw and get a point.

Basel also did not press hard at home, because they were also afraid that if they angered Luton, if they lost to their opponents, then Basel's second place in the group was likely to be robbed by Roma. So both sides played tacitly.

At the end of the game, the score was zero to zero! The two teams had a goalless draw and went out hand in hand, while Roma could only be out of the game.

After the game, the Italian media criticized Luton and Basel as a tacit understanding of the game.

But not many people pay attention to them. In this situation, any sane person knows what choices their team should make.

Soccer games don't have to be life and death...

After returning from Switzerland, on December 18, the draw for the Europa League round of 32 was held in Nyon, Switzerland.

Luton fans are very concerned about this draw, they hope to be able to draw an underdog, so that the team can go further in the Europa League. For Luton fans, now they don't think about winning the Europa League.

Gao Bo is also very concerned about the Europa League draw. If possible, he certainly hopes that the team's road to promotion will not be so difficult, but even if he draws some big teams, Gao Bo will not be discouraged by it - after all, his goal is to win the championship.

After training on the 18th, the players gathered in the team's conference room to watch the draw together.

The players cheered when Luton was drawn.

The opponent they drew is the Eredivisie giants: Ajax! !

Thanks to Baikowski for the reward, and Jiagen remembers it! ! At the same time, I would like to thank all the brothers who rewarded today, thank you.