Chapter 40 Jump Out of the Relegation Zone
Chapter 40 Jump out of the relegation zone
Lin Sen knows that this is Gao Bo's test for him, which will determine whether he can stay in Gao Bo's coaching staff. Luton's game continued while Linson was confident enough to do his job.
After getting rid of the haze of penalty points, Luton has galvanized up and down. There is no such absolutely dominant team in the second division this season. Luton's 11-game winning streak is the most impressive in the second division. A side-scrolling miracle.
So in England and the twelfth round of the league, Luton's opponent is Greensby who has been in the second league for many years. This is an established team in the second division, they are not rising or falling in the second league, and they seem to be satisfied with the status quo.
However, at the beginning of this season, before the tenth round of the league, they lost eight games in the league, drew two games, and only scored two points. They were the favorites for promotion at the time, but in the ninth round of the league, Greensby played away. After a four-to-four loss to Rotherham, the team fired the original head coach and replaced the Liverpool-born coach Mike Newell.
The coaching change is like a knife change. In the next three games, including two rounds of the league and a League Cup game, Greensby won all of them, and it is worth mentioning that they have won in these three games. No goals were conceded.
"This is a team that is very good at defending and counterattacking!! Their defense is very good, and we need to be mentally prepared at this point." Before the game, Gao Bo emphasized to the players in the visiting team's locker room.
By the time the players walked out of the tunnel and Gao Bo was still on the bench, Luton conceded the ball first.
In the opening two minutes, Greensby made a quick counterattack. The extremely fast winger Chris Jones took the ball all the way to the front of the penalty area and then shot with his right foot, making a world wave and helping Greensby lead by one goal.
Gao Bo rushed to the sidelines angrily!
"Cheer up!!! Are you still awake!!!!"
The roaring Gao Bo made the players on the court nervous, and Gao Bo looks really scary now.
Falling behind at the start made Luton's next game difficult. All Greensby players shrunk within the penalty area and had no intention of attacking.
After 11 consecutive victories, Luton is recognized as the strongest team in the Second Division. Of course, Greensby is in the weak position. They shrink in the penalty area and rely on the accumulation of numbers to compress the space and block Luton. Dayton's offensive.
Breaking through a dense defence is a world-class problem, and it's no different for Luton.
Gao Bo knows that what Luton is best at is definitely not attacking tough battles. With Luton's current player configuration, they are better at defensive counterattacks. In the middle of the midfield, Kante and Drinkwater's defensive ability is enough to make all B. The teams in the second division are insurmountable, but now Luton is not a small team that was looked down upon at the beginning of the season, and now Luton is a super team in the league in the eyes of other teams in the second division , Therefore, scenes like today will be encountered very often in the next schedule.
Gao Bo must find a way to improve the team's ability to break through dense defenses, otherwise a situation like today will be something Luton will often encounter in the next league schedule.
Luton tried to go wide and then made a cross. Anyway, Luton is now a double center tactic, and Matt Schmidt's height is placed there. In order to improve Matt's header ability, Gao Bo also improved a card. The yellow card with 8% header ability is equipped.
However, Luton placed a high center forward. Of course, Greensby also strengthened his defense on the wing. It was difficult for Luton to pass the ball to form a space for the cross. too much.
Matt Smith's foot skills are not very good, and it is not realistic to expect him to be a fulcrum to support the attack in the frontcourt. Vardy is not the kind of center with excellent ball ability. Vardy's threat is more reflected in his speed, his movement, and his goal.
The opening counterattack gave Greensby the lead, and then Greensby naturally tried his best to keep his victory.
Luton went back to half-time with a 0-1 deficit in the first half, the first time this season that Luton have fallen behind at the end of the first half.
At halftime, Gao Bo asked the team to strengthen long-range shots. Both Kante and Drinkwater’s long-range shots are good. Even if the opponent is densely populated, a few more shots may cause confusion in the opponent’s penalty area. , to give Vardy a chance.
Relying on these people on hand, Gao Bo did not have a good way to attack. Luton's formation is still somewhat flawed, if there is a player who is good at breaking through, maybe the team has opened up now.
Gao Bo thought of Adam White, who was signed by the youth academy a few days ago. This seventeen-year-old boy has been in the youth academy for a while, and he doesn't know how he fits in.
Knowing that in the 87th minute of the game, Drinkwater's long-range shot from the outside finally opened the situation and Luton equalized the score.
However, in the end, Luton failed to achieve a go-ahead. Luton, who played away, suffered their first draw of the season, and their 11-game winning streak came to an abrupt end.
Greensby managed to stop Luton's winning streak, much to the relief of most of the Second Division teams.
"Gao Bo's team suffered a draw in the twelfth round of the league, and after 11 consecutive league victories, almost all the second division teams have been quite vigilant about Luton. Greens Beginning in the 60th minute of the second half, he slowly replaced the attacking players and replaced three purely defensive players. Greensby was almost playing Luton as a Premier League team. But anyway, Luton are also not a Premier League team, they are not that strong when facing a dense defense. For Gao Bo, he has suffered his first crisis of the season, although they have yet to lose. , but the draw was enough to raise alarm - if it weren't for Vardy's 87th-minute lore, they would probably have suffered their first defeat of the season." Letkinson is now against the Luton team. Still very concerned, he wrote a paragraph for Luton in his column.
On October 22, in the thirteenth round of the league, Luton away challenged Burleigh, who was ranked eighth in the standings. Burleigh was on the defensive from the start of the game.
As in the last game, Luton didn't have much to do when faced with a dense defense. Because they didn't have a very sure one-on-one ability on the wing, whether it was Kevin Keane or Lewis Emanuel, both of them would have a hard time. Not the kind of player who is fast and good at breaking through, and the attacking ability of Luton's two full-backs is not very good. Luton's central players are much better than the wings. But when the opponents put nine or even ten players in the penalty area to defend, almost all the space for mid-lane breakthroughs is blocked.
Luton frequently tried long-range shots from the outside, or directly passed the ball into the penalty area forty-five degrees. This kind of play was not efficient. Gao Bo shook his head from the coach's bench.
However, Luton had good luck in this game. In the 81st minute of the game, fullback Solo Davis passed the ball into the penalty area, and the football was pushed out of the penalty area by the defender.
Drinkwater volleyed a shot near the arc of the penalty area, and the football hit the ball with a strange line of leaves and flew into the goal.
In the end, with such a lucky world wave, Luton finally scored three points away.
At this time, Luton’s points had reached seven points. After this game, Luton overtook Chasfield and Glen Forest Rovers, who scored eight points behind Port Vale, and ranked third from the bottom in the league ( 22nd) and successfully jumped out of the relegation zone.