Soccer Card System

Chapter 17 The Footsteps of the New Season
Chapter No.16 The Footsteps of the New Season
Gao Bo was not surprised to win against a fifth-level team. What excited Gao Bo was that he saw the potential of this team in the future from this game!
Putting this set of tactics in 2008, it can be said to be quite advanced football tactics. With the players on hand, Gao Bo is confident that all English teams will be surprised by Luton.

The team's second warm-up match was a week later. The team came to Brighton, a seaside city in southern England. Here, they will challenge the League One team Brighton!
It is not easy to contact a First Division team as a warm-up opponent. After all, Luton is now the least promising Second Division team, and Seagull Brighton is considered to be the most promising one of the First Division teams this season.

This is a team that is also among the best in the First Division!
Although this game was not a closed game, it did not attract the attention of the media. The focus of the English media is now on the Super League. Cristiano Ronaldo, who has just won a Champions League trophy for Manchester United, has a scandal with Real Madrid. Chelsea ushered in the world champion coach Scolari.

And this warm-up match in Brighton will obviously not be noticed by the big media.In the stands, there were some Brighton fans who came to watch the game. In the media seats, there were also a few reporters—this is a local reporter from Brighton. The news about this warm-up match may only be of interest to fans from both sides.

In fact, Brighton chose to warm up with Luton. It might be that before the start of the season, they would find an underdog to warm up and welcome the new season with a big victory.

However, Brighton obviously underestimated Luton's strength in this game. On their home court, Luton's frontcourt pressure made Brighton very uncomfortable.

In the second minute of the game, Luton scored.

This time it was the team's midfield interception expert Kanter who scored the goal. At that time, Brighton aggressively pressed the offense, but Kanter successfully intercepted in the middle. After stealing the ball in midfield, Kanter led the ball all the way to the front of the penalty area.

A powerful long-range shot broke through the goalkeeper's ten fingers and helped Luton take the lead.

Gao Bo, who saw the goal from the sidelines, was stunned. In fact, Kanter's long-range shooting attribute reached 63. Although this attribute is not too high, in the second division, this long-range shooting ability is considered relatively good. More importantly, Kanter is only 17 years old this year. Maybe Kanter should strengthen his long-range shooting practice?

Gao Bo stroked his chin and thought.

Kanter, who scored the goal, rushed to the sidelines and jumped into Gao Bo's arms.

For this black boy, Gao Bo was kind to him. He dug him out of the French amateur team and brought him to England across the strait, and he almost trusted his ability unconditionally. From the perspective of training and warm-up matches, Gao Bo used Kanter as the absolute main force.

"Thank you, coach!!"

Kanter's English is not proficient, but this sentence really comes from the heart.

Gao Bo laughed and touched the back of Kanter's head.

"You deserve it, kid, you have such strength!!"

"Also, remember to call me boss in the future!!"

Gao Bo touched the top of his head and said.

"Yes! Boss!!"

Kantor grinned, showing a row of great white teeth.

The sparse Brighton fans in the stands were barely sitting on their butts before their team conceded a goal.The Brighton players were also a little confused. The opponent scored a goal just after the game started, which really made them feel a little depressed.

Originally, Brighton wanted to pick a soft persimmon to give themselves some confidence. Of course, they were unwilling to lose this warm-up match easily.

So in the next game, Brighton pressed hard.

On Luton's side, the defense line is shrinking, and the impenetrable center defense makes Brighton's side only look for opportunities through the wings.

And Luton's defense is not purely a defense of the bus. They put so much pressure on every ball holder that even if they reach the wing, it is difficult for Brighton to organize an offense.

The second goal also came soon.

After Drinkwater teamed up with Mitchell Piran to steal the ball on the wing, Drinkwater looked at Vardy's position in the frontcourt, and then he directly launched a long pass.

Quickly pass the ball behind the opponent, this is the routine that Luton has been emphasizing during this time.

Vardy's speed like a cheetah allowed him to quickly throw away the Brighton central defender, and then his handling was even more exciting. Facing the ball behind him, Vardy adjusted his pace, then hung his right foot directly in the middle of the ball, and volleyed an elevator ball!

Faced with such a shot, Brighton's goalkeeper seemed helpless!

Two to zero! !

For this goal, Gao Bo was not too excited. He knew that Vardy had such an ability. When he was full of confidence, he could always score such a world wave.

John Aston next to him was stunned by Vardy's shot.
"At that moment I seemed to see Van Basten." This was many years later, the accomplished John Aston wrote in his autobiography.

At this time, John was just so shocked by the goal that his mouth was so open that he could stuff an egg, and he didn't even know that his saliva was about to flow out. Of course, John didn't write such a shameful thing in his autobiography.

Brighton, who played at home, fell behind by two goals, but they still have no good way to defend Luton. Kanter is quite active in the midfield. For Brighton, Kanter in the midfield is almost an insurmountable moat.

Luton's third goal didn't take long. In the 308th minute of the first half, captain Kevin Keane got a chance to shoot from the right side of the penalty area. He shot decisively and the football entered from a dead corner.

In the second half, Gao Bo did not make a large-scale substitution. He just replaced Charlie Austin with high center Matt Schmidt. Gao Bo needed to form a tacit understanding among the three forwards. This season, Gao Bo can use these three forwards. Although it seems a bit thin, Gao Bo does not have many resources on hand, so he reluctantly uses them.

Matt Schmidt's characteristic is very obvious, that is his height. There are not many forwards with a height of 190 cm on the football field.However, his shortcomings are also obvious. His mobility, speed, and mobility are far inferior to Charlie Austin.

However, Gao Bo believes that Matt is the team's sharp weapon when facing the opponent's intensive defense. Many teams like to put a high center forward on the bench, which is not unreasonable.Luton's fourth goal came from Matt's header assist. Luton's counterattack directly found Matt's head, and then Matt headed the ball and sent the ball to Vardy, who succeeded in anti-offside.

Facing a one-handed opportunity, Vardy easily pushed a dead corner and turned the score into four to zero!

The good performance of the warm-up match boosted the morale of Luton, and then Luton also played several warm-up matches one after another. Gao Bo also tried different formations and personnel combinations in this series of warm-up matches, so the results of this series of warm-up teams have fluctuated.

However, warm-ups are always used to run-in the team's lineup and find out problems, so Gao Bo doesn't pay much attention to the results of the warm-up match.

What he really needs is victory in the official competition!
With the passage of time, the footsteps of the new season have come thump-thump-thump.

(End of this chapter)