Chapter 70 Trying a New Formation

Chapter 70: Try a New Formation

The team's wave of injuries has caused fans to worry about the team's overall state. Fortunately, the first game in February is a British Championship game. This cup game has always been played by all substitute players. , even the regular main substitutes like Matt and Adam Gao Bo did not play.

In this British Championship game, Luton's opponent is Brighton in the First Division. In the away game, Luton, who came off the bench, played very difficult against Brighton, a team that is also quite strong in the First Division. , Only two minutes into the game, Luton fell behind by one goal, which made Gao Bo's idea of ​​​​attacking the away defense failed.

In order to tie the score, Gao Bo had to make offensive adjustments in the second half, but in this way, the game seemed to fall into the rhythm of the offensive battle. In the 62nd minute of the game, Luton equalized the score, and just scored in Luton Two minutes later, Brighton scored again to overtake the score.

The scores of the following games began to rise alternately, and when the final game was over, the score of the game was 4-3!

Luton, whose defense has always been quite solid, conceded four goals in this game. Gao Bo really doesn't have much confidence in the strength of the team's bench lineup. Despite the bonus of cards, Luton's bench strength is after all. Much weaker than Brighton.

Gao Bo didn't have too many regrets when he was out of the British Championship. He didn't put too much energy into this event.

Now the team is 12 points behind the top team in the league, and there are more than a dozen games left in the league. With more than 10 points behind, if the team wants to win the second league championship, it will lose Can't afford any points...

On February 10, in the 30th round of the Second Division, Luton played against Greensby at home.

Although Drinkwater has recovered from injury, Gao Bo did not let him start, but put him on the bench to be on the safe side, and team captain Kevin Keane's muscle injury has basically recovered, but the muscle The injury is easy to repeat, so Gao Bo simply did not let Kevin Keane in on the roster.

Another injured player on the team is Charlie Austin, who also did not enter the roster for this game and is still in a state of recuperation.

In this game, Gao Bo simply sent a single striker formation, with Vardy at the top alone.

In terms of midfield, Gao Bo sent five midfielders. The 18-year-old defensive midfielder Rodpu, who was promoted from the youth academy, was given the opportunity to start the game. Rewards for outstanding young players, Gao Bo hopes to inspire more youth academy players.

In addition to this teenager, there are two regular midfield substitutes who also got the chance to start. The seventeen-year-old backcourt master Hassan Ali can play more and more positions. Gao Bo let him try the central defender, the midfielder, the left and right defenders, and even the left and right midfielders. Gao Bo is very optimistic about this player. This is a defensive player with a big heart and good physical fitness. It is a good exercise to let him play more positions at his age. The midfielder Joseph Ander also got the chance to start for the first time this season.

In addition to these starting faces, Kante is undoubtedly the pinnacle of the Luton midfielder, and another midfielder on the left, Lewis Emmanuel, is still the starting lineup in this game.

Gao Bo sent five midfielders with considerable defensive interception ability with a very obvious intention, that is, to compete with the opponent in midfield!

This is actually meant to be a rehearsal for Luton's next game.

In the next game against Manchester City, Charlie Austin may not be able to recover from injury in time, and Adam White only has half-time physical fitness. This kid runs very fast, but he is not an endurance player, physical fitness coach The training that Mayer had arranged for him had progressed very slowly,

Even with bonuses from training cards. The team's high center, Matt Schmidt, has poor mobility. If it is a positional battle where Luton can press the opponent to attack, it is fine. If he plays a team with certain strength like Manchester City, his mobility is too poor. I am afraid that Matt will not be able to do what he can do - because this must make this 198 cm big man drag a 100 kg body to run non-stop, I am afraid it will be difficult for a strong man.

Therefore, in this kind of game, Gao Bo simply used a single striker, and let's try Vardy's effect of playing a single striker first.

Greensby is now ranked last in the league standings, weaker than Luton, so Gao Bo has absolute confidence to use this game to test his lineup.

In fact, the same is true, not to mention that Gao Bo is also equipped with a card that increases the team's interception success rate by 15%. Even without the equipment, the strength gap between the two sides is quite obvious.

It was almost difficult for Greensby to get the ball off. Luton's five midfielders easily completed the strangulation in midfield. They frequently hit the ball behind Greensby's defense to give full play to Vardy's impact. !

Vardy scored a goal in this game.

At the end of the first half, Vardy had already scored a hat-trick. In the 60th minute of the second half, Vardy scored another goal and staged a big four. Luton led the opponent by four goals at home.

Then Gao Bo began to change people. Vardy's effect as a lone striker was good, and now he wants to try the power of Adam when he played as a lone striker.

Although Gao Bo has equipped all the cards that can exert Adam's greatest strength, when Adam is in front of him alone, he still seems a little uncomfortable, and always habitually pulls to the side... This way As a result, sometimes good offensive opportunities are also dragged into positional battles, and Luton also lacks a strong point in the middle that can directly impact the opponent's defense. As a result, Luton's offensive has been delayed.

Although Adam dribbled from the flank and cut into the penalty area at the end of the game and scored a goal, in Gao Bo's opinion, after Adam was replaced, Luton's single-forward formation did not play well.

Gao Bo sighed, God opened a window for you, and often closed another door for you. Where can there be a perfect genius in this world. Adam is fast and dribbling well, but his ability to read the game is a bit poor....

However, Gao Bo is not in a hurry. In addition to the natural football IQ, game experience can be accumulated by playing more games.

"Collect Jamie's running video and Adam's running video of this game." Gao Bo said to Lin Sen.

For these young players, it's not time to stop learning.

When the whistle of the game ended, Gao Bo and his players gave each other a high five to celebrate.

After winning this game, Luton can prepare for the fifth round of the FA Cup with Manchester City in the next few days!