Chapter 40: Jumping out of the relegation zone

Lin Sen knows that this is a test for Gao Bo, which will determine whether he can stay on Gao Bo's coaching staff. While Linson was confident to do his job, the game continued for Luton.

Shaken off the penalty spots, Luton are on full swing and have not seen the kind of absolute dominance in the second division this season – Luton's 11-game winning streak is the most remarkable miracle in the second division.

Therefore, in England and the twelfth round of the league, Luton's opponent is Grimsby, who have been fighting in the second division for many years. It's a veteran team in the second division, they don't go up or down in the second division, and they seem to be content with the status quo.

However, at the beginning of the season, before the tenth round of the league, they lost eight league games, drew two games and only picked up two points, and were the promotion favorites at the time, but in the ninth round of the league, after Grimsby lost 4-1 away to Rotherham, the team fired the original manager and replaced it with the Liverpool-born old coach Mike Newell.

The change of manager is like a change of knives, and Grimsby have won all three games, including two league games and one Carabao Cup game, and it is worth mentioning that they have not conceded a goal in all three games.

"It's a team that's very good at defending and counter-attacking!! They defended very well and we need to be mentally prepared for that. Before the start of the game, in the away team's dressing room, Gao Bo stressed to the players.

By the time the players walked out of the tunnel, Gao Bo had not yet sat down in the dugout, and Luton conceded first.

In the opening two minutes, Grimsby made a quick counter-attack, and the fast winger Chris Jones dribbled all the way to the edge of the penalty area and fired a right-footed shot to help Grimsby lead by one goal.

Gao Bo rushed to the sidelines in a rage!

"Cheer up!! Didn't you wake up!!! ”

The roaring Gao Bo made the players on the field nervous, and now Gao Bo's appearance is really terrifying.

Falling behind in the opening kick-off made the rest of the game difficult for Luton, with all of Grimsby's players shrinking into the box and no intention of attacking.

After 11 consecutive wins, Luton Town are arguably the toughest team in the second division, and Grimsby are of course the underdogs, shrinking into the box and relying on numbers to compress space and keep Luton at bay.

Breaking down a dense defence is a world-class problem, and it's no different for Luton Town.

Gao Bo knows that Luton's best thing is definitely not a tough battle, with Luton's current player configuration, they are better at defensive counterattacks, in the middle of the midfield, Kante plus Drinkwater's defensive ability is enough to make all the teams in the second division insurmountable, but now Luton is not a small team that was looked down upon at the beginning of the season, and now Luton is a super team in the league in the eyes of other teams in the second division, so today's scene will be very often encountered in the next schedule.

Gao Bo will have to find a way to improve his team's ability to break down dense defences, otherwise a scenario like today's will be a regular occurrence for Luton Town in the upcoming league fixtures.

Luton tried to go wide and then cross, anyway, Luton is now a two-center striker, and Matt Schmidt's height is there, in order to improve Matt's heading ability, Gao Bo also equipped a yellow card that improves his heading ability by 8%.

However, Luton Town have put on a high school striker, and Grimsby has of course strengthened his defense on the wings, and it is difficult for Luton to form space for crosses through passes, after all, there are too many opponents at the back.

Matt Smith doesn't have a lot of skill at his feet, and it's unrealistic to expect him to be a fulcrum to support the offense up front. Vardy is not the kind of centre-forward who is very good at the ball, and Vardy's threat is more reflected in his pace, his movement, and his final shots.

The opening counter-attack gave Grimsby the lead, and Grimsby naturally did everything he could to keep the win.

Luton returned to half-time from 1-0 down in the first half, the first time this season that they had fallen behind at the end of the first half.

At half-time, Gao Bo asked the team to strengthen their long-range shots, and Kante and Drinkwater both had good long-range footwork, even if the opposition was densely packed, but a few more shots might also cause chaos in the opponent's penalty area and create opportunities for Vardy.

Relying on these people at hand, Gao Bo didn't have a very good way to attack. Luton's formation is still a bit flawed, and if there is a player who is good at breaking through, maybe the team will be open up by now.

Gao Bo remembered Adam White, who was signed by the academy a few days ago, this seventeen-year-old boy has also been in the academy for a while, and he doesn't know how to fit in.

Knowing that in the 87th minute of the game, Drinkwater's long-range shot from the edge of the area finally opened up the situation and Luton equalised.

However, in the end, Luton Town failed to achieve a comeback, and Luton suffered their first draw of the season when they played away, and their 11-game winning streak came to an abrupt end.

Grimsby Town managed to halt Luton's winning streak and much of the Second Division side breathed a sigh of relief.

Gobo's side suffered a draw in the twelfth round of the league and after 11 consecutive league wins, almost all of the second division teams are already quite wary of Luton. Starting in the 60th minute of the second half, Grimsby slowly replaced the attacking players with three purely defensive players. Grimsby is playing almost like a Premier League team. However, Luton Town are not a Premier League team either, and they are not very good at attacking when faced with a dense defence. For Gobbo, he suffered his first crisis of the season, and although they have yet to lose, the draw was enough to raise alarm – and if it wasn't for Jamie Vardy's 87th-minute strike, they could well have suffered their first defeat of the season. Lightkinson is still very interested in Luton as a team right now, and he wrote a paragraph for Luton in his column.

On October 22, in the thirteenth round of the league, Luton Town challenged Boehly, who was in eighth place in the standings at this time.

As in the previous game, Luton don't have many options when facing a dense defence, because they don't have too much confidence in one-on-one ability on the wings, neither Kevin Keane nor Lewis Emmanuel are the kind of players who are fast and good at breaking through, and Luton's two full-backs are really not very good at attacking, and Luton's central players are much better than those on the wings. But when the opponent put nine or even ten players in the box to defend, almost all the space to break through in the middle was locked.

Luton often tried to shoot from distance on the perimeter, or directly passed the ball into the box at 45 degrees, which was not very efficient, and Gao Bo looked at it from the dugout and shook his head.

Luton Town were lucky in the 81st minute, though, when full-back Solo Davies played the ball into the box and the ball was pushed out of the box by a defender.

Drinkwater volleyed in from near the arc of the box and the ball hit a ball with a strange path that flew into the back of the net.

In the end, with such a lucky world wave, Luton finally won three points away.

By this time, Luton had reached seven points, and after this game, Luton overtook Chelsfield and Forest Glen Rangers, who were eight points behind Port Vale, and finished third from bottom (22nd) in the league, successfully jumping out of the relegation zone.