Chapter 120: The Leader of the Locker Room

May 20th, morning.

Gao Bo, who woke up from his sleep, opened the curtains of the hotel and looked out the window at the raindrops.

The weather in England is always so rainy.

The FA Cup final will take place at 5pm today. So this morning, there will be no training sessions, the players can relax for the day, and there will be another meeting at noon, the main purpose is to motivate and motivate the players. However, in this meeting, Gao Bo will not make tactical arrangements.

The tactics that should be said, the details that should be emphasized, in this closed training that lasted for ten days, Gao Bo has basically instilled his own ideas into the players, and the rest is the players' performance on the field.

At the noon meeting, Gao Bo announced the starting list.

Although everyone has basically known who will start during the week's training, it is up to the manager to say it himself.

The meeting was very short, and after basically announcing the first release, Gao Bo left the conference room after a few simple words.

Adam is mentally prepared to start, and Gao Bo has put him on the side of the main lineup in the past ten days of training, and the players in the team basically know this, but when Adam really heard this starting list come out of Gao Bo's mouth, Adam's heart was suspended.

But he was soon overshadowed by a new blanket, and in a way, it was Adam's first start.

One by one, the players left the conference room, some of them would take a lunch break to try to get a little more sleep, and some might go to a few teammates to play cards and chat.

Noon is at the discretion of the players, and before the lunch break, as long as they don't get out of the hotel, basically no one cares about them.

"Come on Adam, your strength is long enough to start." Captain Kevin Keane came over and rubbed Adam's head before walking out.

"Hey, Adam." Vardy came over and said, "What did I say, get ready to make a big deal at Wembley!!" ”

N'Golo Kante was behind Jamie Vardy, grinning at Adam before walking out on his own.

Adam also stood up, and he took a deep breath.

Appearing on a big scene like Wembley, no matter who you are, will be a little nervous.

But as a professional, he has to overcome that nervousness.

"There's really a fine line between a star and a normal player. That is, those big people can always show their strength at critical times, and they are fearless. ”

Adam remembered Gobo's words of encouragement.

He turned and walked out of the conference room.

Me too... Fearless!!

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"Starting in a situation like this, Adam is under a lot of pressure..."

In the room, John said to Gao Bo with some concern.

"Stress is everywhere, John." Gao Bo stood by the window and looked back.

'If he can get through this pressure, it's a great thing for him and for the team.'

Gao Bo always looks optimistic.

"Don't talk about that, after this game, the team will go on vacation, where will you go then?" John asked.

As for Gao Bo's origins, John and others only know that he is a Chinese who has been a coach at Chelsea for a while. As for his family, his network or something, John and others have never heard Gao Bo mention it.

"I need to go back home."

Since he came out to study, Gao Bo has not returned to China for more than five years.

Now it's also time to go back and take a look.

Gao Bo picked up his mobile phone and looked at the phone number on his phone that he always dialed almost every once in a while, but he never answered...

.....

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the players began to gather in the hotel lobby one after another.

Outside the hotel, many of the Luton fans had already gathered and cheered when they saw the players in the lobby.

With two hours to go, Gao Bo also came down from the room, and when the players and coaching staff had arrived, everyone boarded the bus and headed to Wembley Stadium.

The team drove slowly through the city of London for almost forty minutes to reach Wembley.

This time the team drew the home team's dressing room, which is much larger than the away team's dressing room, but the equipment is the same, and the players have been to Wembley once, and now they are familiar with it.

At John's urging, the players quickly changed their gear and went out on the pitch for a pre-match warm-up.

While the players from both sides were warming up on the pitch, both managers had already secured each other's starting line-ups.

Rafa Benitez frowned in the visiting dressing room as he watched Luton's starting line-up.

I really didn't expect Luton's starting XI to change so much on the left.

There is no formation in the starting lineup, but Benitez still thinks that Gao Bo is still a 442.

Both players on the left were substituted, with Adam and Hassan Ali starting instead of Lewis and Soro Davies.

Benitez thought for a moment, but didn't understand the purpose of this adjustment.

Adam White is already a regular substitute for Luton Town, he is usually substituted when the team needs to attack, and he is also very flexible, he will sometimes play as a right winger or left winger, and sometimes he will play on the left and right wingers, even shadow strikers, central strikers, and Adam has played in Luton games.

But all of these are substitutes without exception.

Benitez thought for a moment, a little unconvinced.

Adam White is starting for the first time in a game at Luton?!

Rafael Benitez has also been specifically aware of why Adam White, a player known as England's new talent, has basically only been given the opportunity to play as a substitute at Luton, and a large part of this is due to the physical limitations of this young player, seventeen-year-old Adam White is a player from Luton Town from street football, although Adam is a talent in terms of skill due to his outstanding talent, but in terms of fitness, the young player is obviously not able to adapt to the intense 90 minutes of play.

Another change was the replacement of Hassan Ali for Solo Davies, with Rafael Benitez feeling that Luton Town would most likely not play in a back three – because their right-back is not the kind of player who can play at centre-back!

There's a good chance Hassan Ali is going to play at left wing-back!

Having a defender with some defensive ability play as a full-back is really nothing, and it may still be a move to strengthen the defence.

Benitez looked at the starting line-up in his hand, and it seemed that Luton's left side was the direction in which their focus was changing!

By this time, the players had already warmed up, and Benitez put down the list and looked at his players.

The starters were busy taking off their training uniforms and changing into their game shirts, Gerrard put on his match socks and shoes, inserted the shin guards with the Liverpool crest into the socks, then took off his long-sleeved training jacket on his upper body, put on his number eight shirt and then put on the captain's armband in earnest.

"We've stressed a lot of details in the two days of training, and before the game starts, I need to stress that everyone has to be mentally prepared, it's going to be a tough battle!" Benitez spoke as the players were busy changing their gear. 'The opposition will be very dense defensively, we need a little patience, even if we can't score for a long time, don't worry! The game was 90 minutes and we only needed one goal to win! ”

As soon as Benitez's words fell, Gerrard had already changed his equipment, and he stood up suddenly: "The boss is right, this game is a ninety minute game!" ”

"Solve their !! in ninety minutes"

Gerald clenched his fists and said vigorously.

The Liverpool dressing room was quick to respond.

Compared to the tepid crowd when Benitez spoke, Gerrard is the real leader of this dressing room!