Chapter 148 Where did this guy get it?
No one dares to underestimate Manchester United, and Gao Bo is no exception.
After all, this is the most successful team since entering the Premier League era, and their coach is also the best coach in the Premier League.
Their lineup can be described as star-studded. Just seeing their starting roster, Gao Bo felt a headache.
At present, Manchester United's weakest link is probably the goalkeeper. Due to Van der Sar's injury, the current Manchester United's No. 1 goalkeeper is England goalkeeper Ben Foster. Current Manchester United fans are still looking forward to this goalkeeper, because in In the pre-season warm-up match, Ben Foster performed fairly well. However, in Gao Bo's impression, this goalkeeper has made many low-level mistakes. Not to mention being the number one goalkeeper of a team like Manchester United. Even if it is the number two goalkeeper, Ben Foster is not qualified Gao Bo remember this. The goalkeeper was once ridiculed by Chinese fans as "stupid Foster"
In addition to the goalkeeper, Manchester United's central defender combination is probably the strongest central defender combination in the Premier League, Ferdinand and Vidic! The pairing of these two centre-backs made Manchester United's defense firm. For the full-backs, Ferguson chose O'Shea to play the right back. The left back was naturally Evra.
The combination of this line of defenders is pretty good, and in the midfield, Manchester United's starting lineup is Valencia, Fletcher, Carrick, and Nani lined up. Take a look at the configuration of this midfield. , Gao Bo knew what Ferguson wanted to do-Valencia and Nanico on both sides are very sharp offensive players, their speed is fast, can provide a continuous impact on the wing.
On the forward line, Rooney partnered with Berbatov.
With such a lineup, Gao Bo knew that his team would be uncomfortable.
Valencia and Nani will be two important impact points. Using the wing to quickly attack the opponent's defense has always been Manchester United's best.
However, Gao Bo did not explain the tactics in detail before the game, because in the past two months, the team has been conducting tactical training. This game will test the team's training results this month. Of a game.
Of course, mainly on the defensive side. Manchester United must be the main attacker.
Can I get the Community Shield? Of course Gao Bo doesn't want to lose, but the key point of this game is to examine the players first and see how they perform.
The players of both sides quickly walked into the field from the player channel, and then both sides stood still on the field. All the fans stood up.
Before the start of the game, the two sides should collectively stand up and applaud the former legendary England coach who died of cancer a week ago to express their respect for the legend.
Ferguson is also observing Luton's players.
Compared with last season, Luton's starting lineup has undergone several changes.
First of all, of course, on the front line. This season, Luton spent half a million euros and brought in Gleezman from the Real Sociedad B team. Of course, Ferguson's focus is on.
In fact, in England, people still admire Gao Bo's vision. After all, there are several successful examples ahead.
However, it is difficult for Ferguson to find information about Griezmann.
And the Manchester United scouts only gave him a very general and inductive language: flexible, good skills!
Ferguson wanted to scold his mother when he saw this information. How can he see a ghost?
And Gao Bo is willing to spend half a million to introduce this player, which shows that Gao Bo is very optimistic about Griezmann. Given the precedent, no one dares to underestimate the players Gao Bo introduced.
The other new player is Schmeichel. This Ferguson is very familiar, because this is the son of the former Manchester United goalkeeper Schmeichel, but this Manchester United's famous son chose to go to Manchester City's youth academy
Schmeichel's performance in Manchester City in a few games last season is still remarkable. His reaction and bottom speed are very fast, and his basic skills are very solid. However, there are many shortcomings exposed in the Premier League. First of all, in terms of height, Schmeichel's height is only 184 centimeters. This height is really a disadvantage in the position of goalkeeper. First of all, it is high altitude ball. In terms of control, Schmeichel is inherently flawed, so even though Schmeichel's skills are good, Manchester City let him go-even many Premier League teams gave up after seeing his height The plan to introduce Schmeichel.
And Sol Campbell Ferguson knows it very well, after all, this is the main central defender of Arsenal before, and of course Ferguson knows his old opponent players well. But Ferguson is actually skeptical about how much Campbell can play at such an old age.
The other two new players introduced by Luton, Carl Jenkinson sat on the bench, while Alex Sandro was unable to play due to labor certification issues. At this time, he may be sitting in a corner of the stands. It.
In this way, Luton's starting lineup has not changed much compared to last season. The goalkeeper Schmeichel, the central defender combination on the defensive line is Jeffrey and Sol Campbell, and the left defender Solo David S, right back Mitchell Piran, the midfielder is a combination of Drinkwater and Kanter, while the two sides are Kevin Keane and Hassan Ali, and the forwards are Vardy and Griez. Man.
Because of the great defensive pressure in this game, Gao Bo chose Hassan, who has a stronger defensive ability in the midfield, while Adam sat on the bench. The central defender chose Jeffrey to start. The main reason was Jeffrey. Li's header ability is stronger. After all, Manchester United's two-sided impact can create a lot of opportunities to pass the ball. Luton needs to strengthen the defense of the high ball.
On the forward line, the positions of the two forwards are a bit different from last season.
Compared with Charlie Osdi, the tactical weight given to Griezmann by Gao Bo is much greater!
Gao Bo put Griezmann behind Vardy as a ninth and a half player. And Griezmann is not just a ninth and a half, Gao Bo has never used Griezmann as a pure shooter-because Griezmann's abilities are much more than that. When he moved forward, he was a striker and he was a shooter, but when he retreated from the ninth and a half to the tenth position, Griezmann also played like a fish in the midfielder.
Although Griezmann can play a lot of positions, Gao Bo believes that the one that can maximize his role is in the middle.
The reason why Luton played so hard in the face of intensive defense last season has a lot to do with the lack of an offensive organizer Drinkwater is not an organizer, he It's more like a midfielder's combing, and he has the ability to defend, and Kevin Keane is actually similar to Drinkwater. So Griezmann can undoubtedly make up for the gap in this regard.
Wembley was full of voices. Not long after the game started, Ferguson was taken aback by Griezman's performance.
After Manchester United kicked off first, the Valencia side was the main attacking direction of Manchester United. He rushed to the bottom line all the way from the wing, and then swept the center, but Luton's players had already guarded against his move.
Sol Campbell stands very well,
He also didn't make a big-foot clearance, but pushed the ball to the sideline and pushed it to Hassan Ali!
I saw the experience of the veteran here. Sol Campbell knows that for the team, any opportunity to counterattack is very precious.
Hassan is just a role to catch the ball. He quickly passed the ball to Drinkwater. Drinking water did not stop, because Griezmann also came back to take the ball!
Griezmann took the ball with his back to Fletcher, but he passed Fletcher with a few fake moves, then took the ball all the way forward and shot from the edge of the penalty area, but the ball went slightly off the post. , But this still surprised Manchester United fans.
Where did this guy find such a day player? !
Ferguson Yu Guang glanced at Gao Bo not far away, and meditated.