Chapter 70: Trying a New Formation

The injury spree has caused fans to worry about the team's overall form, but the first game in February was a British Championship game, and this cup tournament has always fielded all the substitutes, even Matt and Adam, the regular main substitutes, have not been on the field.

In this English Championship game, Luton's opponent is Brighton in the First Division, playing away, Luton, who came on as a full substitute, played very hard against Brighton, a team that is also quite strong in the First Division, and only two minutes into the game, Luton fell behind by one goal, which made Gao Bo's idea of wanting to defend and counterattack away from home failed.

Gobo had to make an attacking adjustment in the second half in order to equalise, but the game seemed to sink into the rhythm of the attack, with Luton equalising in the 62nd minute, and just two minutes after Luton's goal, Brighton also scored again.

The score of the next game began to rise alternately, and when the final game ended, the score of the game was 4-3!

Luton, who have always been quite solid defensively, conceded four goals in this game, and Gao Bo really doesn't have much confidence in the strength of the team's substitute lineup now, despite the addition of cards, but the strength of Luton's substitute is much weaker than Brighton's after all.

The British Championship is out, Gao Bo does not have too many regrets, he has not invested too much energy in this event.

Now that the team is 12 points behind the top team in the league and there are a dozen games left in the league, the team can't afford to drop any points if they want to win the second division...

On February 10, in the thirtieth round of the second division, Luton Town hosted Grimsby.

Although Drinkwater has recovered from injury, to be on the safe side, Gao Bo did not let him start, but put him on the bench, and the team captain Kevin Keane's muscle injury has basically healed, but the muscle injury is easy to repeat, so Gao Bo simply did not even let Kevin Keane in the squad.

The team's other injured player is Charlie Austin, who is also not in the squad for this game and is still recovering from injury.

In this game, Gao Bo simply sent a single striker formation, with Vardy alone at the front.

In midfield, Gao Bo sent five midfielders, and the 18-year-old defensive midfielder Rodp, who was promoted from the academy, got the chance to start, and his start was Gao Bo as a reward for the outstanding performance of the young players in the academy, Gao Bo hopes to inspire more academy players.

In addition to the youngster, two regular midfield substitutes have also been given a chance to start, and there is a growing trend in the positions that 17-year-old Harsan Ali can play. He has tried his hand at centre-back, midfielder, defender on the left and right, and even a midfielder on the left and right. Gao Bo is very optimistic about this player, a defensive player with a big heart and quite good physical fitness, and it is a good exercise to play more different positions at his age, while another midfielder, Josef Ander, has also been given his first start of the season.

In addition to these fresh starters, N'Golo Kante was undoubtedly the anchor of Luton Town's midfield, while another player on the left side of midfield, Lewis Emmanuel, continued to start this game.

Gao Bo's intention of sending five midfielders with considerable defensive interception ability is very obvious, that is, to fight with the opponent in the midfield!

It's actually a rehearsal for Luton's next game.

In the next game against Manchester City, Charlie Austin may not be able to return from injury in time, and Adam White only has half the physical fitness, this kid is a fast runner, but he is not an endurance player, and the training effect arranged for him by the fitness coach Mel is very slow, even with the bonus of training cards. And the team's high school striker Matt Schmidt's mobility is too poor, if it is a positional battle that Luton can press the opponent to attack, it is fine, if you play a team with a certain strength like Manchester City, Matt, who is too poor, may not be able to do it - because this must make this 198-centimeter-tall man drag a 100-kilogram body to run non-stop, which is probably a bit difficult for a strong man.

Therefore, in this kind of game, Gao Bo simply used a single striker, and first tried how effective Vardy was playing as a single striker.

Grimsby are now at the bottom of the league table and weaker than Luton, so Gao Bo has the absolute confidence to test his squad with this game.

In fact, it is also the same, not to mention that Gao Bo is also equipped with the card that increases the success rate of the whole team by 15%, even if there is no equipment, the difference in strength between the two sides is quite obvious.

Grimsby almost struggled to get the ball down, and Luton's five midfielders were able to finish the midfield with ease, hitting the ball behind the Grimsby defence and making the most of Vardy's impact!

Jamie Vardy was on the scoresheet in this game.

Jamie Vardy had already scored a hat-trick at the end of the first half, and by the 60th minute of the second half, Jamie Vardy had scored another goal to give Luton a four-goal lead at home.

Then Gobo started to make substitutions, Vardy worked well as a lone striker, and now he wants to try the power of Adam as a lone striker.

Although Gao Bo has equipped all the cards that can bring out Adam's greatest strength, when Adam is in front of him alone, he still seems a little uncomfortable, and he always habitually pulls to the side... As a result, sometimes good attacking opportunities are dragged into positional battles, and Luton lack a strong point in the middle that can directly attack the opposition defence, so Luton's attack has been delayed.

Although Adam scored a goal from the end of the game by dribbling inside the box from the wing, in Gao Bo's opinion, Luton's one-man striker formation did not play well after replacing Adam.

Gao Bo sighed, God has opened a window for you, often to close another door, where in this world is there a perfect genius. Adam is fast and good at dribbling, but his ability to read the game is a little worse....

However, Gao Bo is not in a hurry, in addition to his natural football IQ, game experience can be accumulated by playing more games.

"Sort out Jamie's running video and Adam's running video from this game." Gao Bo said to Lin Sen.

For these young players, it's not time for them to stop learning.

When the full-time whistle ended, Gao Bo and his players high-fived each other in celebration.

With this victory, Luton Town can prepare for the FA Cup fifth round against Manchester City in the next few days!