Chapter XXXVIII Exposed Problems

Little did Gao Bo know that thousands of miles away in Shanghai, a young man was preparing to embark on a journey to England to pursue his dream.

After the 10th round of the league, midweek is a match of the English FA Championship. The Football League Trophy is a tournament in which two lower divisions of the English Football League compete for different sponsors, and is now known as the "Johnstone's Paint Trophy" and is also commonly referred to as the "Associate Members' Cup". However, there is no distinction between full members and associate members in the league.

Gao Bo didn't attach too much importance to this game, he sent a lineup of all the youth team members, and he didn't put forward any requirements for victory or defeat, purely as a training for young players.

Luton's focus is still on the league.

Luton Town faced Brentford from the First Division in the Championship away from home, and Luton suffered their second defeat of the season on the road, where they were beaten 2-1 by Brentford and knocked out of the Championship.

Gao Bo does not plan to focus too much on the cup competition, the second division alone has 46 league games, and Luton's squad is actually relatively thin, although Gao Bo brought several players, but the gap between Luton's main force and the substitute is still very large.

Gao Bo does not expect that there will be no injuries in the main squad for a season, so Gao Bo is still very cautious about the use of main players.

Injuries are a nightmare for professional footballers, and on October 17, during training, Charlie Austin sat on the ground with his ankle on his face, his expression pained.

Gao Bo frowned, and the team doctor Haruko Sakuragi immediately entered the venue to check.

After a preliminary diagnosis, the situation is not promising.

"Charlie has a sprained ankle and it will take at least two weeks to recover."

Gao Bo frowned, injuries are indeed what no one wants to see, but on the football field, injuries are inevitable.

Gao Bo hugged the frustrated little Austin and comforted him.

Charlie Austin is really frustrated and excited to play in the professional league, but injuries have forced Austin to stay off the field.

Matt Schmidt's eyes lit up after seeing Charlie Austin injured.

At first, Matt thought he could play in the main team at Luton, but Jamie Vardy and Charlie Austin firmly occupied the main position, and it was difficult for Matt to get a start, although he was the first substitute in the attack, and he has made regular appearances in the league and has four league goals so far.

However, the team has won all the way, and the opportunities for the substitutes are naturally fewer. The winning team is not going to change.

Matt and Charlie Austin don't have any personal vendettas, but objectively, after Charlie's injury, Matt Schmidt's chance came!

On 18 October, Luton Town host Accrington at home.

The most interesting thing about this game was the combination of the forward line that changed to a partnership between high school forwards Matt Smith and Jamie Vardy.

Before the match starts, Gao Bo has to choose the card combination.

After ten rounds of league play, Gao Bo has now been successfully upgraded to level 2, and the number of card slots has increased from three to four.

Now his form is:

Name: Gao Bo

Level: 2 (1500/10000)

Nationality: Chinese

Date of birth: 30 August 1981

Profession: Football coach

Number of Cards Owned(12)

Special Ability: Eye of Insight (Cooldown for 24 hours)

The highest-level cards that Gao Bo has now are still the two blue cards drawn at the beginning, and the blue match card must be equipped.

In addition to this, Gao Bo also chose three other cards.

After more than ten rounds of continuous card drawing, Gao Bo finally drew a yellow card.

"[Match Card (Yellow): Header ability increased by 8%, designate a player to use it]"

Gao Bo has been using this card for central defenders before, because Luton Town has not been very good at high ball crosses, because whether it is Vardy or Charlie Austin, their advantage is not in the air.

However, now that Matt Smith is playing the starting line-up, it is still necessary for him to strengthen the practice of the cross routine, which is after all a high school striker with a height of 198 cm.

In addition to this card, Gao Bo also chose two other cards.

[Match Card (Yellow): Speed increased by 7%, designate a player to use.] 】

This card was used on Vardy,

The last four white cards that increased the ability to cross by 3% were used on Kevin Keane.

Although there are a lot of cards in Gao Bo now, there are only a few that can be used.

Gao Bo is now eagerly looking forward to the rewards he will be able to get at the end of the season!

In this game, Accrington saw that Charlie Austin was injured, they actually had the idea of wanting to score points at Wardway Stadium, they shrunk the formation, and did not give Vardy the opportunity to intersperse as much as possible. For Accrington, a point away from home is also a victory.

In fact, after Luton's winning streak became more and more, the opponents in the second division began to pay attention to Luton, especially some teams in the middle and lower reaches, who began to shrink their defense and play defensive counterattacks when facing Luton.

Despite being at the bottom of the table, Luton are considered by all teams to be one of the best in the second division right now, and they have a chance to compete for the second division title if they are not deducted points.

In the face of the opponent's dense formation, in fact, Luton does not have a very good way, breaking the dense defense is a problem in the world, and the same is true for Luton.

The first half ended 0-0 and Accrington's players were encouraged not to concede in the first half and Luton Town didn't have many chances.

In the second half, Gao Bo decided to change tactics.

Jamie Vardy's power dropped a lot when there was no space to gallop, and the opposition sent a special person to keep an eye on Vardy in the first half, which was why Luton's attack was not smooth in the first half.

In the second half, Gao Bo decided to attack from the wings, and it was not long before Accrington found that Luton had more crosses from the wings.

The 198-centimeter Matt Schmidt put considerable pressure on Ray Ackrington's penalty area, and in the 68th minute of the game, Matt Schmidt finally seized a cross opportunity to beat the opposing defender's head.

After the ball was blocked by the goalkeeper, Jamie Wardie was smart enough to score a goal from the stoppage.

It was also the only goal of the game.

Despite the victory, Gao Bo was not happy. Because this game exposed a lot of problems for the team.

First of all, in the next league, the team will face a lot of similar dense defense, then how will the team break the dense defense?

This question gave Gao Bo a headache.

The players don't have that kind of trouble, anyway, for the players, it's good to win... Why bother thinking about it so much.

Gao Bo announced the disbandment of the team in the locker room, and the next day off for a day, immediately made the locker room boil.

However, Gao Bo did not leave immediately, and Gao Bo needed to find a way to solve the problems exposed by this game.

He decided to go back to the office at the training base first.

As he walked out of the court, Uncle Magis ran over panting.

"Coach Gao Bo, there's a Chinese boy looking for you."