Chapter 85: The Guest War Coventry Part 1
There are still more than two months before the end of the season, so Gao Bo is not in a hurry to agree to any offer.
He needs Charlie's continuous high-gloss performance, which is like packaging. The better Charlie's performance, the more he can sell the price. Because owner David Morton promised that all the transfer fees will be transferred to the signings budget for next season, Gao Bo is now very hard to pack Charlie brightly to attract the attention of customers.
On February 28th, in the thirty-third round of the league, Luton played against Shesbury at home.
Since Brentford, ranked second in the league, and the Wellcome Rovers played first in this round of the league, they have lost one after another, while the third-placed Burley suffered two consecutive losses. As long as Luton beats Shesbury in a game, they can overtake Brentford and come to second place in the league, only seven points behind the Wellcome Rangers!
So Luton was very excited about this game, and Charlie Austin was also in excellent form. He scored two goals in this game, which was his twelfth in four rounds. He got the ball, and his crazy state made him get the attention of the English media. The second division is a professional league anyway, with 11 goals scored in four rounds and an average of three goals per game, which is equivalent to a hat-trick in four consecutive rounds! Such a crazy forward, even those mainstream media have paid attention.
Blackburn withdrew from the "Charlie Austin" battle, and now joins the battlefield to become a top-level league team, including the super giants such as Manchester United and Liverpool, but also interested in Charlie Austin .
After all, this is a young man who is only nineteen years old, and more importantly, he is from England!
This makes Charlie Austin attractive enough.
The victory of this round of the game allowed Luton to close the gap with the top of the list. Four days after the wine stopper, on March 4th, the 34th round of the league, the team challenged Port Vail away.
Speaking of, Port Ville also has a forward who has a grudge against the team, that is, Sam Parker, who was used by Gao Bo to exchange Matt Smit.
However, the former Luton striker has lost his main position in Port Vale. Port Vale has been struggling very hard this season. They are now only two points ahead of the relegation zone. Their defense is good, but the team's weak offense makes They gained too many zero to zero...
So in the second half of the league, the head coach of Port Vale adjusted the team's offensive lineup, and Sam Parker could only sit on the bench in this game.
And Matt Schmidt, who he had exchanged from Port Vail, was the starter of this game. Although they are also substitute forwards, but with Sam Parker, who can hardly get a chance to play on the bench, Matt Schmidt still got a lot of playing opportunities in Luton. He is a regular substitute in the hands of Gao Bo, and he has more or less opportunities to play in almost every game.
As the FA Cup quarter-finals are about to start in three days, Luton will go to Ricoh Stadium to challenge Coventry. Now the FA Cup game has been adjusted to the priority level of the league by Gao Bo, so this game Gao Bo decided to let some of the main players take turns.
However, Charlie Austin did not take a rotation, he continued to collect stats on the court.
In the 27th minute of the game, he scored again. Matt Schmidt's header flew to the back point in the penalty area, and Charlie Austin scored from the back point to help Luton take the lead.
In the subsequent game Port Vale also failed to get a bargain at Luton's feet. At the beginning of the second half, Charlie Austin made a single-handed goal with a counterattack and dribbled into the penalty area. After that, Matt Schmidt also passed a corner kick and knocked on the goal of Port Valle with a header.
Luton beat his opponent 3-0 away, they have now scored 67 points after the 34th round of the league! And because the Wellcombe Wanderers were tied by Notts County in this round, Luton is now only five points away from the top! !
Five points! !
From losing 30 points to only five points away from the top of the list, Gao Bo's team is not far from creating miracles. They still have twelve games to create a championship legend belonging to the second division.
And now, they want to set a legendary record in another arena.
On March 7, the team came to Coventry. This is the FA Cup quarter-finals. As long as Luton reaches the quarter-finals, their next FA Cup game should be at Wembley. Profitable.
Coventry is a city in West Midlands, England. It was once the center of the textile industry and once the four largest cities in the UK, but it is now a yellow flower. Although Coventry is now considered to be a large city in England, with a population of 350,000, this population can be regarded as the size of a large city below London in England, but in Gao Bo's eyes, this size is also comparable to China. There is no difference in the small county town.
Gao Bo is a native of Meizhou, Guangdong. Meizhou is not a big city in Guangdong, and it is even lesser known as a small city in the whole country. However, the population of Meizhou as a whole also exceeds five million....
So for 350,000 people, it is called a big city, Gao Bo's expression can only be EMMMMMMM......I understand Anyway, John doesn't believe Gao Bo is from a five million people In a small city with a population, John doesn't even believe that in addition to big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, there are cities with more than one million people...
John specifically found Lin Sen to verify this...
Lin Sen thought for a while, and said to John, "John... I come from a small city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province, China... called Donghai County. In China, there are too many small counties like this, so many people don't even have any. I've heard the name of my hometown, but my hometown has a population of over one million people..."
John and other British guys have a ghostly expression, they can only feel that China is really a populous country...
This is just an episode of the team coming to Coventry. Gao Bo pays more attention to the FA Cup opponent.
Coventry's head coach is Coleman. Speaking of this gentleman, the reason why he was noticed by the media is that he is a good friend of Mourinho....
Gao Bo had no influence on this buddy in his previous life, so he can only rely on the current data to analyze this opponent.
This is a crucial battle, but this is only the beginning of the challenge. Because Gao Bo has set his goal to win the FA Cup, Coventry is just the weakest opponent to defeat on the way to the championship. If Luton makes it to the semi-finals, no matter who he encounters next, he will be the big team in the Premier League.
Arsenal or Liverpool? Or Everton?
These three teams are likely to reach the semi-finals. This is also Luton's opponent in the semi-finals.
So although Gao Bo looks confident, but against these opponents, he is not sure of winning.
But no matter what, Luton first wants to defeat the current team, Coventry from the British Championship!