Chapter 11 Team Building

Chapter 11 Team Building

But obviously not now, because this is only the first time Gao Bo has seen his players.

During this period of time, he has turned over the information of the players he can try out several times, and now he needs to combine training and his discerning skills, which can only be used once a day, to select players who are suitable for his tactics and make the team better. The main framework of the first come out and then talk about it.

Gao Bo was also a die-hard fan in the previous life. He was extremely impressed by the Leicester City that created the myth in the 2015-2016 season.

Ranieri's team almost stole the Premier League championship on the basis of the relegation last season, and staged a good show of grassroots counterattack!

A team may be able to defeat a strong enemy with its temporary performance, but it is obviously not enough to win the championship in the long league competition.

In this life, Gao Bo is a professional coach. After combining the memory of that Leicester City team in his mind, he summed up a few key points: rapid transfer, creating space through movement in attack, and compact defense in defense. Positioning, piling up players in the penalty area prevents the opponent from forming a shot on the flanks, and constantly presses the opponent with the ball.

Leicester City's formation is a classic 4-4-2. Ranieri requires the team to be compact and it is difficult for opponents to control them. Vardy is on the front line, Okazaki Shinji is behind him, and he will drop back to assist the midfielder when necessary.

Leicester's aim is to keep the distance between each other as small as possible, forcing their opponents to attack from the flanks and only get the ball into the box from both sides, which is why they pile up players in the box where it's almost impossible Or it is difficult to complete the goal through this method.

Once Leicester City steals the ball, they turn from defense to attack very fast. The player will directly pass a long pass to Vardy and quickly form a counterattack. Vardy and Okazaki Shinji go straight into the middle of the opponent's defense line, attracting the defense of the opponent's central defender respectively. Create space for teammates in the second tier behind.

If the counter-attack doesn't work, Leicester will turn into a positional fight, with the forwards and second-tier players behind the strikers making vertical thrusts into the opposition's penalty area.

Once the ball is conceded, Leicester City will immediately press and defend the opponent to prevent the opponent from forming an attack, which will make it difficult for the opponent to deal with. When changing from offense to defense, Vardy is the first line of defense. He will press the opponent's ball-handler. Kante and Drinkwater will support him in the midfield. If such a robbery fails to steal the ball, Leicester City players will return to the front line to defend.

Several key players who created miracles for Leicester City were called up by Gao Bo, so this set of tactics can also be transplanted to Luton.

According to the plan, the players will take a week to return to the state of the game stage of last season - many players have gained a lot of weight after a holiday.

After that, there is a ten-day physical fitness training. No matter what tactics are performed on the field, physical fitness is the foundation of the team.

After the training started, Gao Bo turned on the football card test system.

When a light curtain appeared again, Gao Bo always looked at the unresponsive crowd around him with a guilty conscience.

Only one person can see this light curtain.

Equip cards!

Card equipment successfully!

On the hollow Kacha, a card emitting blue light just fit on the edge of the card and was embedded in it, and at the same time, several lines of blue fonts on the card also radiated light.

Training effect increased by 15%!

When the card was equipped, Gao Bo looked around and found that there was nothing unusual.

It wasn't until a week later, when the fitness coach and team doctor Haruko came to report on the players' status, that Gao Bo discovered the awesomeness of this skill.

"Gao, it seems that the players are quite engaged in training, it's less than a week,

Almost all the players have lost weight..." Mel Donald said excitedly.

Gao Bo pinched his chin, where is the player's high level of investment, it is clearly the role of this training card. It seems that the effect of this card is really good.

"In that case, let's start the next stage of training as soon as possible!"

Pre-season training is the most crucial stage of preparation for a whole season.

"Uh.... just one player's training situation is not ideal..." Mel Donald said with a sullen face.

"who is it?"

"Sam Parker..."

Mel Donald said with some distress, in Donald's view, the team can only rely on this 27-year-old experienced striker on the front line, and the striker seems to be lacking in competitive mentality. The degree can only be described by three days of fishing and two days of drying nets.

Gao Bo has an impression of this striker, but his positioning of Sam Parker is not a main striker, but as a substitute. With such strikers as Vardy and Charlie Austin, Sam Parker has never heard of him in his previous life. The strikers I have heard of are naturally not competitive at all.

But this Sam Parker is so lazy, it seems that he is not qualified to be a substitute...

"Then leave him alone. When will his weight return to normal, and when will he join the team for training, otherwise let him train alone all the time." Gao Bo didn't care, he was just a backup striker and had nothing to do with the overall situation.

Mel Donald was taken aback: "This...Sam Parker is a very good striker in the Second Division..."

Gao Bo waved his hand with his signature confident smile on his face: "Mel, Vardy and Charlie Austin are not just B-level strikers!!"

Mel Donald obviously didn't believe it, but Gao Bo didn't explain anything. Instead, he asked with interest: "That means that if this Sam Parker is put on the transfer market, some teams still need it?"

Mel Donald nodded: "In the Second Division, a striker of Sam Parker's level has also played in the First Division. There will be many teams in the Second Division that are interested."

"If we trade him out, I want a tall central defender with strong frontal defense and air defense!" Gao Bo leaned forward. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case.

These days he has been observing a lot of Luton players one after another.

First of all, in the forward and midfield, with the four players of Vardy, Charlie Austin, Drinkwater and Kante, the main players in these four positions must be these players, and the team captain Kai Wen Keane also has to occupy a position on the left or right of midfield, and with the addition of central defender George Parker, the central defender who has played in the Championship can also get a main position.

In this way, a starting lineup needs at least two defenders on the left and right, a full-back, a midfielder, and a strong goalkeeper.

There are quite a lot of candidates for the defender Luton on the left and right. After Gao Bo's observation over the past few days, there are at least a few qualified players at the level of the B-League, and the same is true for the midfielder. In terms of position, there are currently two players who have the opportunity to compete for the main goalkeeper, 19-year-old Dean Polly and 22-year-old Claude Rondo!

At the technical level, the attributes of the two are similar. Gao Bo is more concerned about the 22-year-old Claude, because the goalkeeper is much more dedicated and hard-working than Dean Polly. .

What troubles Gao Bo is that Luton lacks a central defender with sufficient air defense ability. Except for George Parker, the remaining central defenders in Luton are all players under the age of 20. Most of them are physically fit. Thin, it is difficult to withstand the impact of those tall centers in the league, so in the position of central defender, there must be a player who can provide hardness in frontal defense!

"Let the scouting department look for it first, our training can't stop!"

Gao Bo made a decision. He still has 100,000 pounds of transfer funds on hand. If Sam Parker is added to the transaction, he should be able to buy a qualified central defender.