Soccer Card System

Chapter 72 The Inevitable Injury Wave
Chapter 69 The inevitable wave of injuries

Being drawn to Manchester City made Gao Bo think more.

The state of Manchester City this season is very unstable. The current Manchester City is not the Premier League champions a few years later. They have bought a few stars, but this team is very messy and cannot form a whole.
In fact, like Manchester City, a small team suddenly received investment from a big benefactor, and then frantically introduced strong reinforcements, and the subsequent results were often not as expected.A team definitely does not become a strong team by stacking stars. Just having a group of stars is not enough. They also need to integrate these stars to form an overall joint force in order to bring out the abilities of these stars.

If they beat Manchester City in the fifth round, Luton will reach the quarterfinals.If the quarter-finals are lucky enough to draw a slightly less strong team, after entering the semi-finals, there are only two games left to win the championship... Maybe it is really worth fighting for!
FA Cup winner?Moreover, he still led a second division team to win the championship. It is estimated that this will become the biggest dark horse counterattack in the history of the FA Cup, right?
Gao Bo is full of expectations for such a challenging achievement!
Gao Bo opened the calendar and checked the team's schedule.

The fifth round of the FA Cup will be held on February 20th, and there are still more than [-] days to go. However, during this period of time, there are not many game tasks for Luton. There are only three rounds of the league in January, and an English championship and a league in early February.

Playing five games in more than 20 days, one of the games was an irrelevant small cup game. This kind of schedule gave Gao Bo a lot of room for maneuver. He didn't even need to make any rotations in the league.

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When Gao Bo made a decision, the work of the team's coaching staff began to revolve around the task of beating Manchester City.

Lin Sen was sent out by Gao Bo. Although there were a lot of news about Manchester City in the media, Gao Bo still wanted more accurate and detailed things. Lin Sen was responsible for observing Manchester City's games and their training conditions. He wanted to provide an evaluation report on every Manchester City player who might play in the FA Cup.

This is a tedious job.

But plans don't always keep up with changes.

On January 24, Luton played against Bradford at home.

Bradford is now on the same score as Luton, but because of the goal difference, they are behind Luton in the league.

The Bradford game in the away game started with a defensive attitude. Faced with this situation, Luton is actually used to it. Most of the second division teams will now adopt such a weak strategy when facing Luton.

The first half of the game was uneventful. At the end of the first half of the game, Luton finally cracked the opponent's tortoise shell.

Taking advantage of a corner kick, Luton drove the ball towards the penalty area.

The central defender Jeffrey leaped high and overwhelmed the opponent's central defender to head the ball towards the goal. Bradford's goalkeeper made a wonderful save.

In this game, Gao Bo used the card that increased headers by 7% on Jeffrey, which made this central defender who is already good at headers and has excellent jumping skills even more powerful in overhead skills.

And now Jeffrey has become a lot more mature after honing in the league during this period, and his comprehensive abilities in all aspects have been improved a lot compared to half a year ago.

"This kid can be used as a center forward!"

Gao Bo clapped his hands, while applauding his disciple's outstanding performance, he said to the assistant coach John next to him.

The fans at the Worth Road Stadium also cheered. Such scoring scenes have become commonplace at the Worth Road Stadium this season.Charlie Austin was the team's second-leading scorer, and the whole stadium was chanting the name of the scorer.

Soon the fans felt something was wrong, because Charlie Austin, the hero of the goal, was still lying on the ground, and instead of getting up to celebrate, he covered his ankles with his hands...
Sakuragi Haruko quickly ran into the arena with her two assistants.

After a simple inspection, Haruko shook her head towards the sidelines and gestured for a substitution.

Charlie Austin couldn't hold on anymore, he was injured and had to be replaced.

Gao Bo cursed secretly, but fortunately, the first half of the game was about to end, so Gao Bo simply let the team fight with ten players to make up for the last tens of seconds of the first half.

"Charlie's ankle is swollen, we're going back to get a picture now, hopefully his ligaments aren't hurt..."

Haruko walked up to Gao Bo and whispered, judging from her expression, Charlie's injury was not easy...

In the second half of the game, Blatter did not pose any threat to Luton's defense. Substitute high center forward Matt Schmidt made a header and locked the score at [-]-[-].

Since Exeter City, ranked No.6 in the league, lost this round of the league, Luton scored 43 points after winning the game and squeezed into seventh in the league.

However, Gao Bo, who had injured a general, was not happy with this result.

After the game, Charlie's injury report was also submitted. Fortunately, there was no injury to the ligament, and Charlie just missed the team's two-week game.

Gao Bo breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately it was not a serious injury.In his impression, Charlie Austin in his previous life was finally constrained by frequently injured ankles and failed to make further progress in his career...

Charlie's injury seemed to open a Pandora's box of injuries.

On January 28th, Luton challenged Bournemouth in an away game. Although Luton defeated the opponent with two headers from high center Matt Schmidt, in the 803rd minute of the game, the team midfielder Drinkwater collided with the opponent and fell to the ground, with a slight concussion on the head.

The last league game of January, Luton hosts Burleigh on 31 January.

Luton secured the victory in the first half of the game. Forward Vardy, who had experienced two "scoring shortages", scored twice in the first half of the game, and Matt Schmidt, who started because of Charlie's injury, also helped the team score a goal. Both forwards are in excellent condition.

However, at the beginning of the second half, team captain Kevin Keane suddenly sat on the ground clutching his back muscles without confrontation.

The 32-year-old suffered a strained hamstring muscle....
This is the No.3 player on Luton's injury list during this period.

Luton had no injuries in December, when the schedule was the tightest. In January, when there were not so many games, Luton suffered consecutive injuries to its main players, which made Gao Bo quite helpless.

However, injuries are something that every team needs to face, and Luton is no exception. When things come to an end, I can only say that I am unlucky.

　Thanks to the two brothers Jiuzhuan Huangquan and Mojia Jianxiu for their reward and support!

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