Chapter 69 The Inevitable Wave of Injuries

Chapter 69 The inevitable wave of injuries

The draw to Manchester City made Gao Bo think more.

The state of Manchester City this season is very unstable. Manchester City is not yet the division of the Premier League champion in a few years. They bought a few stars, but this team is very messy and cannot form a whole. The reason why some first-class players are struggling so much in the Premier League!

In fact, like Manchester City, a small team suddenly received investment from a big sponsor, and then frantically introduced strong aid, and the subsequent results were often not as good as expected. A team can definitely not become a strong team by piling up stars. It is not enough to have a group of stars. They also need to integrate these stars to form an overall synergy in order to bring out the abilities of these stars.

If they beat Manchester City in the fifth round, Luton would have reached the quarter-finals. If the quarter-finals are lucky enough to draw a slightly less powerful team, and after entering the semi-finals, there are still two games left to win the championship... Maybe it's really worth fighting for!

FA Cup winner? And he still led a team in the second division to win the championship. It is estimated that this will become the biggest dark horse counterattack in the history of the FA Cup, right?

Gao Bo is looking forward to such a challenging achievement!

Gao Bo opened the calendar and checked the team's schedule.

The fifth round of the FA Cup will be played on February 14, and there are still more than 20 days left. However, there are not many tasks for Luton during this time. There are only three rounds in January. League, as well as a British Championship and a League in early February.

He played five games in more than 20 days, and one of them was a small cup game that was irrelevant. Such a schedule gave Gao Bo a lot of leeway. He didn't even need to make any rotations in the league. Let the main force of the team go out to deal with Manchester City without worrying about physical problems.

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When Gao Bo made a decision, the team's coaching staff began to revolve around the task of defeating Manchester City.

Lin Sen was sent out by Gao Bo. Although there are a lot of news about Manchester City in the media, Gao Bo still needs more accurate and detailed things. Lin Sen is responsible for observing Manchester City's games and their training conditions. A report from a Manchester City player who is likely to play in the FA Cup.

This is a tedious job.

But the plans never keep up with the changes.

On January 24, Luton will host Bradford at home.

Bradford are now on the same points as Luton, but because of goal difference, they are behind Luton in the league.

The Bradford game away from home had a stubborn posture at the beginning. Faced with this situation, Luton is actually used to it. Most League Two teams will now take this approach when facing Luton. Weak strategy, they stick to the penalty area, and then put one or two fast forwards in front, steal one if they have a chance, and try to defend a draw if they have no chance.

The first half of the game was uneventful. At the end of the first half, Luton finally knocked on the opponent's tortoise shell.

Taking advantage of a corner kick, Luton drove the ball into the box.

Centre-back Geoffrey jumped high and steered the ball towards the goal with a header from the opposing centre-backs. Bradford's goalkeeper made a brilliant save, he reached out and blocked the ball, but Charlie - Austin's astute movement in the penalty area allowed him to get a chance for a shot. When Charlie got the ball to the goal after the defender interfered, the goalkeeper had nothing to do.

In this game, Gao Bo used the card that boosted his header by 7% on Jeffrey, which made the central defender who was good at header and jumping even more powerful in his overhead.

Moreover, Jeffrey, who is now 18 years old, has become a lot more mature after tempering in the league, and his comprehensive ability in all aspects has been improved a lot compared to half a year ago.

"This kid can be used as a center!"

Gao Bo clapped his hands, applauding the disciple's outstanding performance, and said to the assistant coach John next to him.

Fans at Worth Field cheered, too, a scene that has become commonplace at Worth Field this season. Charlie Austin was the team's second-leading scorer, and the entire stadium was chanting the names of those who scored the goals.

Soon the fans felt that something was wrong, because the goal hero Charlie Austin was still lying on the ground and did not get up to celebrate, but covered his ankles with his hands...

Sakuragi Haruko quickly ran into the arena with her two assistants.

After a brief inspection, Haruko shook her head off the court and made a substitution gesture.

Charlie Austin couldn't hold on anymore, he was injured and had to be substituted.

Gao Bo scolded secretly, fortunately at this time, the first half of the game was almost over, Gao Bo simply asked the team to challenge ten people, and survived the last few dozen seconds of the first half.

"Charlie's ankle is swollen, we're going to go back and take a film now, hope his ligaments aren't hurt..."

Haruko walked over to Gao Bo and said in a low voice, judging from her expression, Charlie's injury was not easy...

In the second half of the game, Blatter didn't pose any threat to Luton's defense either. Substitute high center Matt Schmidt made a header to seal the score at 2-0.

As Exeter City, ranked sixth in the league, lost this round of the league, Luton scored 43 points after winning and squeezed into seventh in the league.

However, Gao Bo, who had injured a general, was not happy with the result.

After the game, Charlie's injury report was also submitted. Fortunately, there was no ligament injury, and Charlie just missed the team's game for two weeks.

Gao Bo breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it was not a serious injury. In his impression, Charlie Austin in his previous life was ultimately limited by his frequently injured ankle and failed to progress further in his career...

Charlie's injury seems to have opened a Pandora's box of injuries.

On January 28th, Luton played away to Bournemouth. Although Luton defeated the opponent with two headers from high-center Matt Schmidt, in the 83rd minute of the game, the ball The team's midfielder, Drinkwater, fell to the ground after colliding with his opponent and suffered a slight concussion on his head. At this time, Luton had no place for substitutions. At the last moment, Luton was forced to fight with ten men. Fortunately, Luton's defense was solid enough to withstand the opponent's last-minute onslaught.

The last league game of the month, on January 31st, is Luton host Burleigh.

In the first half of this game, Luton sealed the victory. After two "goal drought" striker Vardy scored twice in the first half of the game, and Matt Schmidt, who got the start because of Charlie's injury Also helped the team to score a goal, the state of both strikers is very good.

However, at the beginning of the second half, team captain Kevin Keane suddenly sat on the ground clutching his hamstrings without confrontation.

The thirty-two-year-old veteran suffered a muscle strain in his hind leg….

This is the third player on Luton's injured list during this period.

In December, when the schedule was the tightest, Luton did not have any injuries. In January, when the game was a little less so, Luton suffered consecutive injuries to the main players, which made Gao Bo quite helpless.

However, injuries are something that every team needs to face, and Luton is no exception.