Chapter 197: Opponents in the top 32 of the Europa League

Chapter 197: The top 32 opponents of the UEFA Cup

The doping incident has aroused many media discussions.

In England, many media are speaking for Luton. After all, Luton is also the England team. What's more, the UEFA Disciplinary Committee decided against Luton players just because of the Roma's report. All urine tests are performed, which shows that in the hearts of UEFA Disciplinary Committee personnel, they are also suspicious of Luton, a third-level team.

"This is a big fuss. If it is Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, or other Premier League teams that beat Roma, even if the disciplinary committee receives a report, it will never make such a fuss. This can only explain. In many people's minds, Luton from the English Premier League is not worthy to beat Roma. Unfortunately, Gao Bo's team slapped them with their performance on the court. Even if there are more small moves off the court , They still lost in the end!" Sky Sports said in the report.

On the Italian side, news about whether Luton actually used stimulants has been reported by many media.

After all, after the disciplinary committee intervened, regardless of whether Luton used stimulants or not, this matter will become more and more dark after media rendering.

But in the end, when the results of the disciplinary committee came out, Luton was finally innocent.

Luton's players did not use any illegal drugs.

Then the Italian media broke the news that Luton used ammonia to refresh the players before the game.

However, the English media soon retorted: This only shows that Luton's chemistry is good. Ammonia is not a banned drug, it is just a physical means to improve the players' attention.

The media are noisy, but for Luton, the next schedule is still very dense, at least Gao Bo has no time to fight in the media.

The Europa League matches are over, the next thing to focus on is the domestic competition.

After returning to England, the schedule in November was very intensive, because the FA Cup games also began.

There were a total of six games in November. Luton's state has seen some ups and downs. Six games have maintained a record of four wins and one loss! The FA Cup reached the third round, and the league ranking surpassed Leeds United to rank second in the league.

On November 9th, in the first round of the FA Cup, Luton played away against the South Allianz, and Luton won one to zero!

On November 14, the sixteenth round of the league, the team suffered an away draw. Luton challenged Oldham on the away game. The team sieged for 90 minutes without scoring, zero to zero! This game also allowed the team to be opened by the top two competitors.

On November 18, the 17th round of the league, the Bristol Rangers 3-0 at home; on November 21, Yeovil 1-0 at home.

On November 24, the team suffered their second defeat of the season in the away game. In the 19th round of the league, Luton lost to Leiden Orient with a 1-2 away game. So far, the team has played 13 wins, four draws and two losses after playing 19 league rounds. They scored 46 points, one point behind Charlton, and Leeds with the same point, ranking second in the league with a goal difference. .

On November 28th, in the second round of the FA Cup, Luton defeated Paulton Albin 1-0 at home to enter the third round. In the third round of the draw that night, Luton drew his mortal enemy-Watford.

The match against rivals is of course an important match, but the third round of the FA Cup will not take place until a month later, so now the team basically does not have to consider the FA Cup matches.

After this FA Cup, the fifth round of the Europa League group stage followed one after another. Luton will play CSKA Sofia at home. Although the team has now qualified, but in order to ensure that the group first, the team can not relax the group game.

But CSKA Sofia also failed to threaten Luton. Luton played very well at home. In the Europa League, the players seemed to be working hard.

In the first half of the game, Griezmann and Vardy made contributions to the team. In the second half, Matt Schmidt, who came off the bench, scored twice with two headers. In the end, Luton was 4-0 at home. Victory over CSKA Sophia.

At this time in another arena, Roma defeated Basel 2-0 at home, retaining a glimmer of hope of qualifying, and because of Basel's loss, Luton secured the group's first place in advance.

Then came the domestic league. Because the first division has a full forty-six rounds, Luton's schedule for the Europa League is compressed very tightly. They almost play two games every week. game.

Fortunately, Gao Bo has become more and more comfortable in rotation. On December 5th, the 20th round of the league, Luton, the semi-main player, defeated Carlisle United 1-0 at home. On December 11th, the league ranked first. In the 21st round, Luton, who was also a semi-main and semi-substitute match, defeated Huddersfield 2-1 and continued to remain in the top group in the standings.

On December 16, the last match of the Europa League group stage, the team challenged Basel away.

Before the start of this game, the Roman media, who had taken over a lot of Liangzi with Luton before this time, praised Luton. They hope Luton can beat Basel in the away game so that Roma can have a chance to turn over.

But Gao Bo will not change the game plan for this.

In this game, Gao Bo didn't even bring a main player away. The bench players started, and the players on the bench were promoted by the youth team.

In fact, for the Basel two, even if they win, they can't take the first place in the group so they only need to ensure a draw and get one point.

Basel did not press on at home, because they are also afraid that if Luton is angered, if they lose to their opponents, then Basel's group second is likely to be robbed by Roma. So the two sides also played tacitly.

At the end of the game, the score was zero to zero! The two teams drew a goalless draw and joined hands to qualify, but Roma could only get out of the game.

After the game, the Italian media severely criticized Luton and Basel's match as a tacit match.

But not many people care about them. In this case, any sane person knows what choice his team should make.

Football matches don't have to be dead or alive...

After returning from Switzerland, on the 18th of December, the draw for the 32nd Europa League was held in Nyon, Switzerland.

Luton fans are very concerned about this draw. They hope to draw a weaker team so that the team can go further in the Europa League. For Luton fans, now they have not thought about winning the Europa League.

Gao Bo is actually very concerned about the Europa League draw. If he can, he certainly hopes that the team's promotion path will not be so difficult, but even if some big teams are drawn, Gao Bo will not be discouraged because of it-after all, his goal is to win the championship.

After the training on the 18th, the players gathered in the team's conference room to watch the drawing ceremony together.

When Luton was drawn out, the players cheered.

The opponent they drew is-Eredivisie giants: Ajax! !

Thanks to Baikowski for his great reward, and I remember it more! ! At the same time, thank you brothers who rewarded today, thank you.