Chapter 148: Where did you get this guy?

No one dares to underestimate Manchester United, and Gao Bo is no exception.

After all, this is the most successful team since entering the Premier League era, and their manager is also the best manager in the Premier League.

Their lineup can be described as star-studded, and just looking at their starting list, Gao Bo felt a headache.

At present, Manchester United's weakest link is probably the goalkeeper, due to Van der Sar's injury, so the current Manchester United No. 1 goalkeeper is England goalkeeper Ben Foster, and now Manchester United fans are still quite expecting this goalkeeper, because in the pre-season warm-up game, Ben Foster's performance was not bad. However, in Gao Bo's impression, this goalkeeper is not a little low-level mistake, not to mention that as the No. 1 goalkeeper of a team like Manchester United, even if it is the No. 2 goalkeeper, Ben Foster is not qualified....... Gao Bo remembers that the goalkeeper was once ridiculed by Chinese fans as "Stupid Foster.......

In addition to the goalkeeper, Manchester United's centre-back combination is probably the strongest centre-back combination in the Premier League, Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic! The pairing of the two centre-backs has made United's defence solid, while at full-back, Alex Ferguson opted for the panacea O'Shea at right-back, with Patrice Evra at left wing-back, of course.

The combination of this back line is not bad, and in the midfield, Manchester United's starting four players are Valencia, Fletcher, Carrick, and Nani lined up, looking at the configuration of this midfield, Gao Bo knows what Ferguson wants to do - Valencia and Nanico on both sides are quite sharp players in attack, they are fast and can provide a steady stream of impact on the wings.

On the forward line, it is Rooney partnering Berbatov.

With such a lineup laid out, Gao Bo knew that his team would be uncomfortable.

Valencia and Nani will be two important points of impact, with the ability to attack opposition defences on the flanks has always been United's forte.

However, Gao Bo did not explain the tactics in detail before the game, because in the past two months, the team has been running in tactical training, and this game will be a game that will test the team's training results in the past month.

Mostly defensively, of course. Manchester United are certainly on the attacking side.

Can I get Community Shield? Of course, Gao Bo doesn't want to lose, but the focus of this game is to look at the players first and see how the players perform.

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Players from both sides quickly walked into the field from the tunnel and then both sides stood on the field. All the fans stood up.

Ahead of the game, both sides paid tribute to the legendary former England manager, who died of cancer a week ago.

Alex Ferguson is also watching Luton's players.

There have been a couple of changes to Luton's starting XI compared to last season.

First of all, of course, in the forward line, Antoine Griezmann, who spent half a million euros from Luton Town this season from Real Sociedad B, is certainly the focus of Ferguson.

In fact, in England, people still admire Gao Bo's vision. After all, there are several successful examples ahead.

However, Ferguson also had a hard time finding information about Griezmann.

And Manchester United's scouts only gave him a very general generalization: flexible, good technique!

Ferguson wanted to scold his mother when he saw this information. How the hell can you see a ghost?

And Gao Bo is willing to spend 500,000 yuan to bring in this player, which is enough to show that Gao Bo is very optimistic about Griezmann. In the case of precedents, no one dares to underestimate the players introduced by Gao Bo.

The other new player is Kasper Schmeichel. This is very familiar to Ferguson, because this is the son of former Manchester United goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, but the son of a Manchester United legend has chosen to join Manchester City's academy....

Schmeichel had a few games for Manchester City last season, with his reflexes and speed of getting down very fast, and his fundamentals were solid. However, the game in the Premier League exposed a lot of shortcomings, first of all, the height, Schmeichel's height is only one hundred and eighty-four centimeters, this height is too much to suffer in the goalkeeper position, first of all, of course, the control of high-altitude balls, Schmeichel has a natural defect, so although Schmeichel's skills are good, but Manchester City still let him go - even many Premier League teams have given up on the plan to introduce Schmeichel after seeing his height.

And Saul Campbell Ferguson knows it very well, after all, this is the main central defender of Arsenal in the past, and Ferguson certainly knows everything about the players of his old rivals. But Ferguson is actually skeptical about how much more role Campbell can play at such an advanced age.

The other two new signings brought in by Luton Town, Karl Jenkinson, were on the bench, while Alex Sandro was unavailable due to labour certification issues, possibly sitting somewhere in the stands.

As a result, Luton's starting XI has not changed much from last season, with goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, a centre-back combination of Jeffrey and Saul Campbell at the back, left-back Soro Davies, right-back Mitchell Piran, a combination of Drinkwater and N'Golo Kante in the middle of the midfield, Kevin Keane and Hassan Ali on either flank, and a combination of Jamie Vardy and Antoine Griezmann up front.

Because there was a lot of defensive pressure in this game, Gao Bo chose Hassan, who was more defensive, in the midfield, while Adam was sitting on the bench, and the central defenders chose Jeffrey to start, mainly because Jeffrey's header ability was stronger, after all, Manchester United's impact on both sides can create a lot of cross opportunities, and Luton Town needs to strengthen the defense of high-altitude balls.

On the forward line, the positioning of the two strikers is a little different from last season.

Compared to Charlie Osdie, Gobo gives Griezmann a much greater tactical weight!

Gobo put Antoine Griezmann behind Vardy as a number nine and a half. And Griezmann isn't just a nine-and-a-half either, and Gobo never used Griezmann as a pure goalscorer – because Griezmann's abilities go far beyond that. When he moved forward, he was a striker, he was a goalscorer, but when he stepped down from a no.9 and a half to a no.10, Antoine Griezmann played like a fish in the midfield position.

Although Antoine Griezmann can play in many positions, Gao Bo believes that it is in the middle that can make the most of his role.

The reason why Luton Town struggled so much against a dense defence last season had a lot to do with the lack of an attacking playmaker. Drinkwater isn't a playmaker, he's more of a midfielder, and he's defensive, and Kevin Keane is actually about the same as Drinkwater. So Griezmann can undoubtedly fill the gap in this regard.

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Wembley was buzzing with voices, and Ferguson was taken aback by Griezmann's performance shortly after the game began.

After Manchester United kicked off first, Valencia's side was the main direction of United's attack, and he burst all the way down the flanks to the bottom line and then swept vigorously through the middle, but the Luton players were already on guard against his move.

Saul Campbell was in a very good position, he didn't clear the ball with his big feet, but pushed the ball towards the touchline and pushed it to Hassan Ali!

This is where the experience of the veteran comes in. Saul Campbell knows that any opportunity to counter-attack is precious for the team.

Hassan is also just a character who connects to get the ball, he quickly passed the ball to Drinkwater, and the drinking brother did not stop, because Griezmann also came back to get the ball!

Antoine Griezmann had his back to Fletcher, but he shook it past him with a few feints before dribbling forward and firing from the edge of the box, but it went just wide of the post, but it still scared the United fans.

Where did this guy get such a one-day player?!

Ferguson glanced at Gao Bo not far away, and thought silently.