Chapter 120 The Leader of the Locker Room
May 20th, morning.
Gao Bo, who woke up from his sleep, opened the curtains of the hotel and looked at the pattering raindrops outside the window.
The weather in England is always so rainy.
The FA Cup final will be held at 5 o'clock this afternoon. Therefore, this morning, the team will not be training, players can fully relax on this day, the team will have another meeting at noon, the main purpose is to motivate and mobilize the players. But at this meeting, Gao Bo will not make tactical arrangements.
The tactics that should be mentioned, the details that should be emphasized. In this closed training that lasted for ten days, Gao Bo has basically instilled his ideas into the players, and the rest is the players' performance on the field.
At the noon meeting, Gao Bo announced the starting list.
Although everyone has basically known the starting candidate during this week's training, the head coach has to say it in the end when the dust settles.
The meeting time was very short. After the first announcement was basically announced, Gao Bo left the meeting room with a few simple words.
Adam is mentally prepared for the starting lineup. In these ten days of training, Gao Bo has put him on the side of the main lineup, and the players in the team basically know this, but when Adam really heard this starter When the list came out of Gao Bo's mouth, the hanging heart in Adam's heart was let go.
But soon he was enveloped in a new daze. To some extent, this was Adam's first appearance.
The players left the meeting room one by one. Some of them will take their lunch break and try to sleep longer, and some may go to a few teammates to play cards and chat.
Noon is the free time of the players. Before the lunch break, as long as they don't get out of the hotel, basically no one will take care of them.
"Come on Adam, you are already strong enough to start." Captain Kevin Keane came over and rubbed Adam's head, then went out.
"Hey, Adam." Vardy came over. "What I said, get ready to have a big fight at Wembley!!!"
Kanter was even behind Vardy. He grinned at Adam and walked out by himself.
Adam also stood up, and he took a deep breath.
Appearing in a big scene like Wembley, no matter who it is, it will be a little nervous.
But as a professional player, he must overcome such a nervous state of mind.
"There is actually only a thin line between stars and ordinary players. That is, those big players can always show their strength at critical times, and they are fearless."
Adam remembered Gao Bo's words of encouragement.
He turned and walked out of the meeting room.
Me too... fearless! !
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"Starting under such circumstances, Adam's pressure is not small..."
In the room, John said to Gao Bo with some anxiety.
"Pressure is everywhere, John." Gao Bo stood by the window and said back.
"If he can survive this pressure, it will be a great thing for him and for the team."
Gao Bo always looks optimistic.
"Don't talk about this, after this game, the team has entered a holiday, where will you go?" John asked.
Regarding Gao Bo's history, John and others only know that he is a Chinese and has been a coach at Chelsea for a period of time. As for his family and his network, John and others have never heard Gao Bo mention it.
"I have to go home..."
Gao Bo has not returned to China for more than five years since he went to study abroad.
Now is the time to go back and take a look.
Gao Bo picked up the phone and looked at the phone number that was called almost every once in a while, but he never received it...
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At three o'clock in the afternoon, the players began to gather in the hotel lobby one after another.
At this time outside the hotel, many Luton fans have assembled here, and when they saw the players appearing in the lobby, the fans cheered.
Two hours before the game started, Gao Bo also came down from the room. After the players and coaching staff were all there, everyone boarded the bus and headed to Wembley Stadium.
The team drove slowly in the urban area of London for nearly forty minutes before reaching Wembley.
This time the team drew the home team's locker room. Compared with the away team's locker room, the home team's locker room is much larger, but the equipment is the same. The players have been to Wembley once and are now familiar with it. Up.
Under John's urging, the players quickly changed their equipment and went out to the stadium to warm up before the game.
Just as the players of both sides warmed up on the court, the two coaches had already got each other's starting roster.
Benitez frowned in the visiting team's locker room watching Luton's starting lineup.
I really didn't expect that Luton's starter had such a big change on the left.
You can't see the formation from the starting list, but Benitez still believes that Gao Bo is still a 442.
The two players on the left were replaced. Adam and Hassan Ali replaced Lewis and Solo Davis as the starters.
Benitez thought for a while, but didn't want to understand the purpose of this adjustment.
Adam White is already a regular substitute for Luton. He will usually be replaced when the team needs to attack, and his position is also very flexible. Sometimes he will be the right midfielder or the left midfielder, and sometimes the position is also Will play the left and right wingers, even shadow forwards, center forwards, Adam played in Luton's game.
But these are all on the bench without exception.
Benitez thought for a while, he was a little unsure.
Is Adam White starting for the first time in Luton? !
Benitez also specifically understood why Adam White, who is known as the new England genius, basically only got the opportunity to play on the bench in Luton. The big reason is the physical limitation of this young player. , 17-year-old Adam White is a player Luton acquired from street football. Although Adam is a genius technically due to his outstanding talent, in terms of physical fitness, this young player is obviously unable to adapt to 90 minutes. Intense competition.
Another adjustment is that Hassan Ali replaced Soro Davis Benitez feels that Luton will not play a three-back with a high probability-because their right back is not the kind that can play. A central defender!
Hassan Ali is probably going to play the left back!
Let a defensive midfielder play a full-back, which is actually nothing, it may be a measure to strengthen the defense.
Benitez looked at the starting roster in his hand, it seems that Luton's left is the direction of their key changes!
By this time the players have warmed up and returned, Benitez put down the roster and looked at his players.
The starting players were busy taking off their training uniforms and putting on the game uniforms. Gerrard put on the game socks and put on the game shoes. He inserted the leg guards with the Liverpool logo into the socks and then took off the sleeves. The long-sleeved training jacket on the upper body, put on his number eight jersey, and then seriously put on the captain's armband.
"The specific details have been emphasized a lot in our two-day training. Before the game starts, I need to emphasize that everyone must be psychologically prepared. This will be a tough battle!" Benitez said to the players When he was busy changing equipment, he said. "The opponent's defense will be very intensive. We need a little patience. Even if you can't score a goal, don't worry! The game has ninety minutes, and we only need one goal to win!"
As soon as Benitez's voice fell, Gerrard had changed his equipment, and he stood up suddenly: "The boss is right. This game is a 90-minute game!"
"Resolve them in ninety minutes!!!"
Gerrard clenched his fists and said vigorously.
Liverpool locker room immediately promised.
Everyone was tepid when speaking to Benitez, and Gerrard is the real leader of this locker room!