Chapter 33: Winning streaks and rotations

In fact, for journalists who have been doing news about the second division for a long time, they would prefer Gao Bo to bring Vardy, Charlie Austin, or Kante to the press conference, after all, these players are worth the news. Moreover, these stunned young people have no media experience, so it is easy for these reporters to make news.

And after these games, some experienced reporters already know that several new stars have risen, and if they continue to play so well this season, it is estimated that many Premier League teams will be interested in them, especially Charlie Austin and Kante, who are 19 years old and 17 years old, and there will be many teams who will see their potential.

In fact, even Gao Bo, reporters are very interested, regardless of whether Luton can be relegated this season, judging from Luton's performance in these games, Gao Bo is definitely a capable coach, and his vision is very good, several players he brought are Luton's main players, Vardy and Charlie Austin are now the first and second in the league scorer list.

But Gao Bo just didn't give these tabloids a chance, and he always brought the steady team captain Kevin Keane to the press conference, which made the reporters helpless.

With the win against Gillingham, Luton Town are now at minus 24 points and are still bottom of the league.

A week later, on August 23, in the third round of the English Second Division, Luton Town hosted the Magpies Notts County.

Although Notts County has not won any major honours in the club's history, Notts County are still the most famous minor club in England scouting – they are now the oldest surviving professional club in the world, having been founded in 1862 – and at that time China was still under the Qing Dynasty, just two decades after the First Opium War, two years after the Opium War, and two years before the Taiping Rebellion was wiped out.

Although Notts County was founded early, they really don't have any honors in history, and they have been fighting in the lower leagues for a long time.

Luton Town have been in a good start to the season and Notts County have been cautious at first, not pressing heavily on the road.

However, the Notts County defense did not survive the first half, and in the 42nd minute of the game, under Luton's continuous attack, the Notts County goal was lost, and Solo Davies' cross from the side created chaos in the Notts County penalty area, and Charlie Austin seized the opportunity to stab the ball smartly to give Luton the lead.

In the 87th minute of the second half, Drinkwater helped the team seal a 2-0 victory through a long-range shot from outside the penalty area, and Lue finally beat Notts County 2-0 at home, winning three consecutive league games and four consecutive wins in all competitions!

"Since the start of the season, Luton have scored a crazy eighteen goals! Fifteen goals have been scored in the league! And no goals conceded! Compared to other teams in the second division, this number of goals is more than Shetsbury and Rotherham combined, and if they are not deducted 30 points, Luton Town will now be at the top of the second division! The next day's Hat Seller said.

It is true, now there are five teams in the second division that have won three consecutive league games, in addition to Luton, there are Shetbury, Rotherham, Bradford, Boehly, but these teams have scored six goals, and the goal difference is Shetsbury, they have not conceded a goal in three rounds since the start of the game, so their goal difference is six, and Luton's goal difference is fifteen!

Had not been deducted points, Luton Town would now be in top of the league.

Despite this, the Luton fans are still very happy, and Uncle Magis, the caretaker at the gate of the team's training base, has a smile on his face almost every day, and if this development continues, the team's relegation this season may not be a big problem.

After the game against Notts County, owner David Morton texted Gobo: "Gobble, you're the best coach I've ever met!!" I feel like you're the next Mourinho!! ”

Gao Bo pursed his lips, and his mouth was really good. It's better to give Lao Tzu a salary increase than to say so much. However, Gao Bo is now the role of the team's "general manager", he is not just the head coach, but the actual manager of the whole team, in fact, the owner David Morton is not deeply involved in the team, although Morton claims to be a Luton native, but in fact, this guy is still an American in his bones. According to the American thinking, professional things should be handed over to professional people to manage, so David Morton's approach is to hire Gao Bo, which is equivalent to hiring a professional manager for the company, and Gao Bo's authority in the club is very large.

It's a loss... Receiving the manager's salary, doing all the work. Are capitalists so calculating?

Gao Bo turned off his mobile phone and sighed.

After this victory, Gao Bo did not give the team a holiday, because three days later, Luton Town travelled to Reading in the second round of the Carabao Cup.

It's a Championship team again.

Reading were relegated from the Premier League last season and are also very strong in the Championship.

As this Carabao Cup is quite close to the third round and the fourth round of the league, three days before this League Cup, the team played Notts County in the third round of the league, and on the third day of the away game against Reading, the team had less than two days of rest, and Luton Town had to go away in the fourth round of the league against Exeter City. Gao Bo thought twice and finally decided to send a substitute to play this Carabao Cup game.

There are 24 teams in the second division, and the league alone is 46 rounds in a season, and if a few key players are injured, it is really difficult for Gao Bo to win some key games. Therefore, in the cup, Gao Bo must have a trade-off.

Even if the League Cup is eliminated, there are still cup competitions to play in the FA Cup. Compared to the FA Cup, the League Cup has a much more pressing place in the hearts of fans.

In fact, if Gao Bo hadn't brought Vardy and others, the remaining youngsters would have been the main framework for Luton, and perhaps this game would have been a time for people to see the gap in the game.

It also proved that Luton's bench was really difficult to competitive, although Luton were also very good in this game, they did not concede a goal until the 90th minute of the game, and the score on the field was still 0-0.

However, Reading also appeared to be lucky at Reading's home stadium, as they won a corner in the 91st minute, and it was through that corner that Reading knocked on the goal of Luton.

Gao Bo regretted shaking off the field, if the away game is drawn, the team may not be able to beat the opponent in the second round of home play-off and reach the third round.

This game allowed Gao Bo to see the strength of his substitute lineup, although his personal ability is indeed limited, but under the tactics designed by Gao Bo, the overall operation of the team is still good, and he can also play back and forth in the face of Championship-level teams, and in the end it was just a one-goal defeat.

Maybe some cup competitions, let these substitutes play?

Gao Bo pondered in his heart, after all, he couldn't rely on eleven players to play a whole season, the players were all living people, they would also be tired and injured.

Rotation is also a key test of coaching.