Chapter 197: The opponent of the round of 32 of the Europa League

The doping scandal has caused a lot of discussion in the media.

On the England side, many media are speaking for Luton, after all, Luton is also a team on the English side, not to mention that the UEFA Disciplinary Committee decided to conduct all urine tests on Luton players just because of the Roma's report, which shows that the UEFA Disciplinary Committee is also suspicious of Luton, a team that is only in the third tier.

"This is a fuss-making incident. If it is Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, or other Premier League teams that beat Roma, the disciplinary committee will never make such a fuss even if it receives a report, which can only show that in the psychology of many people, Luton from the English First Division is not worthy of beating Roma. It's a pity that Gao Bo's team slapped them a few times with their performance on the court. No matter how many small actions there are off the field, they still lose in the end! Sky Sports said in the report.

On the Italian side, the news about whether Luton has used doping or not has been reported by many media outlets.

After all, after the disciplinary committee intervened, regardless of whether Luton used doping or not, the matter would become darker and darker after the media exaggerated.

However, in the end, when the results of the disciplinary committee came out, Luton was finally cleared.

Luton's players did not use any illegal drugs.

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

However, the media in England soon retorted: this only shows that Luton have good chemistry, and ammonia is not a banned drug, but just a physical means to improve the attention of the players.

The media is noisy, but for Luton, the next fixtures are still very dense, at least Gao Bo has no time to engage in a war of words in the media.

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

Back in England, the fixtures in November are very busy as the FA Cup starts to come.

With six games to play in November, Luton's form has seen some ups and downs, with four wins and one defeat in six games! The FA Cup reached the third round and the league finished second ahead of Leeds United.

On November 9, in the first round of the FA Cup, Luton played away against Southend United and won 1-0!

On November 14, in the 16th round of the league, the team suffered a draw away from home, Luton Town challenged Oldham United, and the team besieged for 90 minutes without scoring a goal, 0-0! The match also saw the team open up in points by the top two rivals.

November 18, the 17th round of the league, 3-0 at home to Bristol Rover; On November 21, the league was 1-0 at home to Yeoville.

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

On November 28, in the second round of the FA Cup, Luton Town beat Burton Albion 1-0 at home to reach the third round. In the third round of the draw that evening, Luton Town drew their sworn rivals, Watford.

The game against bitter rivals is of course an important game, but the third round of the FA Cup is not played until a month away, so the team basically does not have to think about the FA Cup competition now.

This FA Cup is followed by the fifth round of the Europa League group stage, with Luton Town hosting CSKA Sofia. Although the team has now qualified, the team cannot relax in the group stage to secure the top spot in the group.

However, CSKA Sofia did not threaten Luton Town either, who were excellent at home and seemed to be working hard in the Europa League.

Antoine Griezmann and Vardy were the winners of the first half, before substitute Matt Schmidt scored twice with two headers as Luton Town beat CSKA Sofia 4-0 at home.

At the other level, Roma secured their hopes of qualifying with a 2-0 home win over Basel, while Luton Town secured top spot in the group one round ahead of schedule due to Basel's defeat.

This is followed by the domestic league, with a 46-game schedule in the First Division, so the schedule of Luton Town to play in the Europa League is very tight, and they play two games almost every week.

Fortunately, Gao Bo is becoming more and more handy in rotation, on December 5, the twentieth round of the league, Luton, which played semi-mainly, defeated Calisle United 1-0 at home, and on December 11, in the twenty-first round of the league, Luton, which is also a semi-main and semi-substitute pairing, defeated Huddersfield Town 2-1 away and continued to remain in the first group in the standings.

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

Before the start of this game, the Roma media, who had previously taken over a lot of ties with Luton, praised Luton at this time, and they hoped that Luton could beat Basel away so that Roma could have a chance to turn around.

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 player away, the substitutes started the game, and the players who were promoted by the youth team sat on the bench.

In fact, for Basel, even if they win, they can't steal the top spot in the group, so they just need to secure a draw and get a point.

Basel did not press too hard at home because they were also afraid that if they provoked Luton Town, if they lost to their opponents, then Basel would probably be robbed of second place in the group. So the two sides also played tacitly.

At the end of the game, the score was 0-0! The two teams played to a goalless draw and qualified hand in hand, while Roma could only be eliminated with hatred.

After the game, the Italian media criticized the match between Luton and Basel as a tacit goal.

But not many people pay attention to them. In this case, any sane person knows what choice their team has to make.

Soccer doesn't have to be a life-or-death game...

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

Luton fans are very concerned about the draw and will be hoping to draw an underdog team that will allow them to go a little further in the Europa League. For Luton fans, they are not thinking about winning the Europa League right now.

Gao Bo is actually also very concerned about the draw for the Europa League. If he could, of course, he would also like the team's road to promotion not to be so difficult, but even if some big teams are drawn, Gao Bo will not be discouraged by this - after all, his goal is to win the championship.

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

When Luton Town was pulled out, the players cheered.

They were drawn against a Dutch giant: Ajax!!

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