Chapter Ninety-Four: Opponent Arsenal!

As it was away from home, he and his team didn't go too far in the celebrations after the game, after which the players celebrated in the dressing room for a while, then packed up their things and boarded the bus, returned to the hotel for a night's rest, and then returned to Luton the next morning.

When the team's vehicles entered the city, the fans were almost boiling, and the fans gathered around the bus that was slowly moving through the city road, as if there was a championship parade.

In fact, reaching the semi-finals of the FA Cup is indeed no less than winning the title for Luton fans. Because Luton is only a fourth-tier team, with such a league level to achieve such results in the cup, even if Luton are eliminated in the semi-finals, I am afraid that in the next ten or twenty years, when fans mention Luton this season, they will have to talk about it.

Luton's historic run into the semi-finals has the whole of Luton going crazy, and the pub owners from last night must have made a lot of money anyway.

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In all the sports media pages published the next day, the game was put on the front page of the top news.

The other three knockout games feature Premier League-level teams, including giants such as Arsenal and Liverpool, but the most notable is Coventry's host of Luton Town in a clash between Championship and Second Division sides.

"Luton Town – FA Cup semi-finals!" That's the headline of a lot of media.

The mere association of Luton's name with the FA Cup semi-finals is shocking enough.

"Luton Town, led by the Chinese coach, are doing miracles, or rather, they have done miracles. In the second division, Luton Town, who have been deducted 30 points, are now second in the league and they are almost locked in a promotion place to League One, and even after the end of the season, it will not be a surprise that Luton Town won the second division! In the FA Cup, Luton Town are also a super dark horse in the FA Cup this season, and their path to promotion is not due to good luck in the draw, they met Chelsea and Manchester City on the way to the last four. But in the end Luton knocked them out!! Now, the Second Division side will travel to Wembley to compete for a place in the FA Cup final!! Sky Sports wrote in the report.

And the photo they accompanied is Gao Bo when he jumped up to celebrate the goal.

Generally speaking, the media prefer to use the players as the accompanying pictures, after all, on the football field, fans prefer to chase after football stars with full personality. However, the English media unanimously chose to put a picture of Gao Bo, which speaks volumes about how successful the manager's job at Luton Town has been.

"The first half was quite dull, with both sides playing defensive counter-attacks, but in the end, under pressure from the home fans, Coventry tried to attack, but if the Coventry fans knew the consequences of pressing, they might not have put pressure on the team, and Luton took advantage of the opportunity for some of the Coventry players to try to press and cause the midfield to disconnect, and completed a quick counterattack!! A goal was scored. ”

'In the second half, Coventry City equalised from a corner, and the highlight of the game came in the final minute of stoppage time, when Luton Town also scored from a corner and was headed home by centre-back Geoffrey to complete the winner!!!

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Three of the four FA Cup quarter-finals have been completed, with no draws in all three, while the other three teams that have reached the last four include Everton and Arsenal, while Liverpool's home game against Fulham will be played tonight, regardless of the outcome, with the team that will qualify at Premier League level. Luton Town will not have an easy time next drawing any of these teams.

However, the FA Cup semi-finals are already a month away, so Gao Bo is not thinking about the FA Cup for the time being. In addition to keeping an eye on the draw tonight, Gao Bo has begun to focus on the league again.

On the day he returned to Luton, Gao Bo gave the team a day off, and Gao Bo casually let himself rest for a day.

With 46 rounds of league fixtures in the second division, Luton have an even more crowded schedule than some Premier League teams when they need to juggle cup ties. Therefore, the strings of the team have been very tight during this period.

Gao Bo understands the truth of over-the-top.

Gao Bo didn't go anywhere for a day's vacation, and when he got back to the apartment, he made up for a nap, then got up in the afternoon to read the newspaper, he wanted to go out in the afternoon, wait for a drink at the bar, and go along with the final game of the FA Cup quarter-finals and the draw after the game.

But when Gao Bo opened the curtains, he looked at the dripping rain outside the window and knew that his plan had come to naught. It looks like I'm not going anywhere today.

Gao Bo made himself a pot of tea and turned on the TV.

Just when Gao Bo was a little impatient with waiting, BBC Sports finally started live broadcasting.

The match was played at Anfield, Liverpool's home stadium, with both sides fielding their strongest squads.

Liverpool are once again away from winning the Premier League this season and will have to win the FA Cup to account for their fans in order not to leave themselves empty-handed at the end of the season.

Fulham, on the other hand, are in the middle of the league and qualification for Europe is largely unlikely, but there are no relegation concerns. In the league, Fulham are basically in a state of accompaniment.

In terms of strength, Liverpool is far more robbed than Fulham, but in such a single-game knockout format, with both sides extremely committed, it is not easy for Liverpool to easily eat Fulham.

It was a tough game for both sides. However, in the 73rd minute of the second half, Steven Gerrard broke the deadlock with a long-range shot past Fulham.

Liverpool then managed to hold on to a 1-0 score until the final whistle blew to win the game and secure their final FA Cup semi-final ticket.

The draw for the FA Cup semi-finals was immediately after the match.

The first to be drawn was Everton, and then Liverpool were also drawn.

In this way, the result is determined.

The Merseyside derby was played out in the FA Cup semi-finals, while Luton Town were drawn against Arsenal...

Gao Bo turned off the TV when he saw the results, and he walked to the balcony to look at the two- or three-story apartment not far away.

Drawn to Arsenal....

Gao Bo frowned, Wenger's team is not easy to deal with.

He leaned on the railing of the balcony, and the lights of the distant floors shone through the rain curtain, dappled and reflected on the white walls and red tiles.

It's a new challenge...

Fighting with people is endless fun! Gao Bo charged himself again.