Chapter 159: Unstable state

Chapter 161 An Unstable State

Luton's big victory at home allowed them to get their first victory in the league, which relieved the fans and silenced the media.

Since Luton won the FA Cup, the mainstream media always like to focus on this first division team-they are the most special first division team, because where is the first division ball The team is going to play the Europa League.

Compared to last season, Luton's media pressure is much greater, but Gao Bo has no time to consider these things now.

The schedule for this season is too dense.

The League, the Europa League, the League Cup, the FA Cup, and a cup of the British Championship. Such an intensive schedule made Gao Bo have to consider the team's physical fitness.

After the home win over Hartlip on August 22, and on August 25, just three days later, the second round of the League Cup began immediately.

This time Luton's lottery was unlucky, they were drawn away to the Premier League team Blackburn!

The most recent games are basically a three-day rhythm, which makes Gao Bo make up for the physical condition of the team, and with so many cups, Gao Bo must have a choice.

The focus of this season is still the league and the Europa League. Luton is not a big team. Gao Bo knows very well that the result of wanting everything is likely to be nothing in the end. So Gao Bo considered it again and again and decided to rotate the main players in this game-Gao Bo was ready to give up the League Cup.

Gao Bo is a very simple person. Since he wants to give up, he must give up completely.

In this game, Gao Bo sent substitute players, and he even transferred a few players from the reserve team.

Facing Blackburn with such a lineup, the opponent is a Premier League team anyway, so Luton's away loss is also expected.

The game was full of twists and turns, and Luton took the lead early by counterattack.

Before the game started, Gao Bo assured the starting players that as long as they win the game, they will play in the future League Cup games.

But Blackburn was still superior in the end. They counterattacked in the second half, scoring two consecutive goals to reverse the game, which also led to Luton's exit in the League Cup.

Gao Bo did not feel regretful that he was out of the League Cup, but such a result is still very cruel to the players who have played the whole game.

Gao Bo comforted the players on the field one by one, and he was very satisfied with the fighting spirit of the benches.

After this match, on August 28, the day after the UEFA Champions League draw, the 200910 UEFA Europa League group stage draw was held in Monaco.

This is something Luton really pays more attention to.

In fact, the players introduced this season are largely valued on the Europa League stage.

Needless to say, Sandro's labor certificate is stuck. Although Mendes has exerted his influence in Portugal, his Portuguese passport is still going through the process, and the special genius clause in England seems to be stuck. No news from there for a long time.

In case he can't catch up to get the labor certification before the deadline of the transfer window, Sandro can only play in the Europa League in the first half of the season without a labor certification, and he can't play any games under the FA.

Griezmann is also paying attention to the draw of the Europa League. In these few games, Gao Bo has established him as the core of the frontcourt attack. This role makes Griezmann very grateful to Gao Bo. One of them played in the Real Sociedad b team. The young players who play the ball will take on the big responsibility immediately after coming to the team. This is something that Griezmann did not expect.

However, under Gao Bo's encouragement, Griezmann really did not doubt his own strength, especially the previous league victory that completely gave Griezmann full of confidence. He can adapt here, he can adapt to the English league.

The Europa League is undoubtedly a bigger stage than the English Premier League, and Griezmann is eager to play his strength here.

There are two English teams participating in the Europa League draw this time-Everton and Luton.

There were originally three Europa League places in England, but Aston Villa was eliminated by the Vienna Rapids in the qualifying round.

In the end, Luton was drawn to group e. They will be divided into a group with Rome from Serie A, Basle Basel from the Swiss Super League, and CSKA Sofia from the Bulgarian League.

After the results of this group came out, the English media thought that Luton could possibly win the second place in the group.

Roma is undoubtedly the strongest team in this group, they are basically no problem qualifying, CSKA Sophia is the weakest team in the group, and the English media believe that Luton's biggest competitor is Basel.

But for the other three opponents in the group, they probably regard Luton as the weakest team in the group. After all, Luton is only the third-level team in England.

"We need to study the situation of the group carefully. None of the three opponents of this group are underdogs. We will take it seriously!"

In front of the reporter's microphone, Gao Bo did not say much. Because the team's game tasks are still very heavy.

On August 29th, the team played against Walsall at home. This was the fifth round of the league. Griezmann continued his excellent form in this game. He first assisted Vardy to score and then After one pass in the penalty area, he succeeded in shooting!

Luton eventually defeated Walsall by 2-0, and Griezmann was very comfortable in the new position that Gao Bo arranged for him, and he became more and more comfortable with the core position.

Three days after this round of the league, on September 1, the team will soon go to an away game to play a British Championship. Gao Bo is now unable to complain about the FA's schedule.

The rhythm of a match for three consecutive days gave Gao Bo the urge to use the blue coupons on the physical fitness of the team, but in the end he resisted it. After all, good steel must be used on the blade. The British Championship is completely tasteless for Luton now, and the opponent of this game is Colchester who also comes from the First Division, so Gao Bo does not intend to invest too much resources in the British Championship.

The young players of the echelon got the opportunity to play and exercise, but they lost zero to one away in the face of Colchester, who was the main force.

Eliminated from the League Cup, followed by the British Championship. The bad news of Luton has been one after another recently.

But Gao Bo doesn't think this is bad news. It's not a big deal to get out of the two tasteless cups. Gao Bo is even in a very good mood recently-because Sandro received a Portuguese passport.

Mendes really had great powers in Portugal. Before the Premier League transfer window closed, he finally got Sandro's Portuguese passport.

In this way, Sandro can finally complete the registration in the league.

And the next thing is to usher in a league match, the first round of the league make-up, Luton away from Trampir!

The final result of this game was a one-to-one Luton one-to-zero lead and maintained it until the 90th minute As a result, in stoppage time, Trumbier equalized the score with a corner kick.

Luton suffered a perfect match!

This made Gao Bo, who was ready to win gold and retreat, became extremely angry on the sidelines. In the dressing room after the game, Gao Bo was very dissatisfied with the team's last-minute relaxation. The players endured 20 minutes of hair dryers in the room.

After Gao Bo announced to continue training the next day, the holiday was cancelled!

After this round of the league, Luton played a total of five league games. Although they have not lost, they scored nine points in three draws and two victories. This score can only make them seventh in the league.

Compared with the same sweep as last season in the second division, Luton, who has been promoted to the first division, does not seem to be as crazy as last season.

"Compared to the crazy state of last season, Luton this season seems to be back to normal." Lineker said on the bbc program.

"The level of the First Division and the Second Division is different. Perhaps Luton needs to change his mentality. It is not that good to play in the First Division. The three draws are proof." A guest said.

"They still have to play in the Europa League. Luton has a lot of tasks this season. Gao Bo may have to make a decision early. Luton is just a small club after all. They can only choose one front. They don't have multiple lines. Combat strength." Another guest added.

Not only TV shows, many media have expressed pessimism about Luton's prospects.

Many teams have such precedents, multi-line combat eventually dragged down the team, and in the end, the four major players were empty and nothing was obtained.

Will Luton follow in these teams?

Judging from the ups and downs of Luton from the beginning of the league to the present, the media has reason to believe this.