Soccer Card System

Chapter 28

Chapter 27League Cup
Signing Adam is a logical thing.

Gao Bo did not immediately bring Adam to the first team, because Adam had not received the influence of the youth training system of the professional league before today, and it would be extremely irresponsible for Adam’s growth to let him go directly from street football to professional football.

Adam's ball sense and skills are very good, but he still has a lot to improve, the most important thing is teamwork. Street football is a place to show off skills, but professional football is a palace for the pursuit of victory.Adam's current physical condition is not suitable for appearing in the highly competitive professional arena.

The children in the training camp looked at Adam enviously. Of course they knew that this kid was going to develop. He must have been noticed by the coaches of the first team. It won't be long before his training ground will be the training base of the first team.

Since Adam lives in East London, tens of kilometers away, the Luton Club has to solve the problem of residence for the Adam brothers.Of course, Gao Bo would not ask such questions. He is the head coach of the team, not the nanny of the young players.

Gao Bo spent the whole day in the youth training camp. After the children in the youth training camp finished their day of training, Gao Bo also returned to his residence.

The one-day holiday ended quickly. When the players appeared on the training ground again, the victory in the first round of the league obviously brought them unlimited confidence.

Port Vale is not a strong team, but it was able to win at home, which shows that the team has been training very solidly in the past two months, and the tactics insisted by the head coach are very effective in employing people.

This has strengthened the players' confidence in relegation this season.

But the next game is not a league game, but a League Cup game.

The English League Cup, also known as the English Football League Cup (English Football League Cup), is a competition between 92 teams in the English professional league system regardless of level.

The background of the establishment of this event is that the English Football League was established in [-] to fight against the FA Cup controlled by the English Football Association. The purpose is to allow each club to have a knockout-based competition outside the league.But although the League Cup has a long history so far, its status in the hearts of fans is far inferior to that of the FA Cup.

The League Cup is divided into seven rounds. Except for the semi-finals, the outcome is determined by a single knockout match.

Each team will draw lots to determine the opponent and the home and away games.If the game is tied within 90 minutes, extra time will be required to determine the winner.If there is still no winner after overtime, then the winner will be determined by a penalty kick.

The teams participating in the first round include all the English Championship, League One and League Two teams. Except for the teams participating in European competitions who join in the third round, other Premier League teams start to join in the second round.

Founded in 1886, the Football League was originally in charge of all 92 professional clubs in England at all levels, but in 1992, after 20 teams from the First Division rebelled and established a parallel Super League, there were only 72 clubs under its umbrella.Since the level of the club in charge is not the highest, the weight of words is naturally not as great as before, and if you want the top few clubs in the Premier League to participate in the League Cup, it will naturally depend on other people's faces.

The status of the League Cup is already behind the Premier League (League One before 92) and the FA Cup. For the top clubs in the Premier League, the League Cup is just a game for training substitute players.Of course, for these clubs, ignoring the League Cup is also a helpless move, because in addition to participating in the League, FA Cup, and League Cup, they also have to participate in the lucrative Champions League or Europa League.Therefore, some Premier League giants will send a large number of bench players and even youth troops to participate in the game.

But for Luton, the League Cup is not tasteless.

Small and medium-sized clubs can use the League Cup to gain the opportunity to play against strong teams. With the light of strong teams on TV and newspapers, they can not only obtain tickets and TV broadcast income, but also expand their influence.Especially if there is a big upset by accident, it will be a big happy event for the fans.

Luton's opponent in the first round of the League Cup was Nottingham Forest, a team from the English Championship. Fortunately, Luton was drawn at home, eliminating the need to travel to the away game.

Nottingham Forest last season, like Luton, is a team in the First Division, but after the end of the season, the fate of the two sides is different.

Nottingham Forest won the first division runner-up and was promoted to the British Championship.Luton was unfortunately relegated, and now it has been deducted [-] points and is struggling to avoid relegation in the second division.

Gao Bo is no stranger to the Nottingham Forest team, because this team is already well-known in England.

Although this team has been absent from England's top league for many years, in the late 70s, this team once created a whirlwind in Europe!
In the 1978-1979 season and 1979-1980 season, Nottingham Forest won the Champions League twice!Nottingham Forest is second only to Liverpool and Manchester United in terms of the number of Champions League trophies won by English teams!
Before drawing this opponent, Gao Bo did not intend to put too much energy into the League Cup. After all, for Luton, their lineup is still a bit thin, and they are already stretched to cope with the league. If they are still distracted by the cup, it may have a great drag on the league.

However, the football card system suddenly released a task before this game.

[Task]: Win the game against Nottingham Forest.

[Task reward]: [-] experience points, randomly draw a yellow card!
Yellow card?
Gao Bo hesitated. If it was a lottery, it would be very difficult to draw a colored card—the probability of drawing a white card is too high.

In the end, Gao Bo decided to use the main lineup for this game.Because at the beginning of the season, the league schedule is not intensive. The League Cup match is on August [-], and Luton's next league match is on August [-]. There is a five-day gap between the two games, which is enough for the players to rest and recover.

Gao Bo hoped that after winning this game against Nottingham Forest, he would be able to draw a larger Premier League team in the second round. Compared with the low-level leagues, the attention of top-level league teams is very different. In terms of broadcasting revenue alone, this income is enough to make Luton's finances a little more comfortable.

Of course, if the League Cup schedule will affect the league in the future, Gao Bo will not hesitate to give up the cup.

After all, the league is fundamental.Gao Bo doesn't want to stay in the second division for too long, he hopes to lead the team to upgrade as soon as possible!

However, it is not easy to win a championship-level team, especially Nottingham Forest. Nottingham Forest is not easy to deal with, just like the city of Nottingham. Historically, the city of Nottingham was the place where Robin Hood, the most famous green forest robber in the world, was born, so the people of Nottingham are full of "heroic spirit". .
The temperament of the Nottingham Forest team is naturally the same as the city, with a rigid temperament. This does not mean that the Nottingham team's style of play is dirty, but that the team always has a tenacity. Perhaps this is the so-called background of the team-after all, it is also a team that has won the Champions League twice.

(End of this chapter)