Chapter 32: Downgrade favorites and upgrade favorites
If after two consecutive victories, some local Luton media questioned that this was just a fleeting moment for the team, then the next victory will make everyone start singing praises to Luton.
On August 16, in the second round of the league, Luton challenged Gillingham away.
This is the first time that Gao Bo has taken the team to an away league. Before departure, Gao Bo appeared very cautious. His requirements for intelligence were accurate to almost every part.
road traffic, weather, etc.
John Aston has never seen a head coach who is so harsh on details. When John is playing, the football head coach's preparation for the game is: "Go up and play, guys, kick the opposite ass, and then night Go back to the bar and I will treat!!!"
Then a group of lads rushed forward yelling.
is very unprofessional, but it fits the English personality very well.
Alcohol is the best partner of English football for a long time. In fact, it wasn't until the 1990s that England's top league teams began to try to prevent their players from drinking as much as possible... and Gao Bo asked to be in the team. During training and games, all players on the team are prohibited from drinking. In order to lead by example, Gao Bo also suppressed his alcohol addiction. He will only experience mouth addiction when he is on vacation.
In addition, in almost every game, Gao Bo requires the coaching team to collect information about the opponent as much as possible, understand the characteristics of the opponent, and then make some adjustments in the details according to these characteristics.
For example, marking the opponent's key players, attacking weak points of defense.
No matter how big or small, through this kind of explanation and analysis, combined with training, the changes brought to the team are subversive-at least before each game, the team is always full of confidence.
Knowing oneself and the enemy is the only way to survive in battle.
This is the way Gao Bo believes in winning.
It's a pity that these analyses were not the work done by the head coach himself, but now in the coaching team, John Aston is a good player in directing player training. He is also very useful in assisting the management of the team. After all, He has been in the team for so many years, and coordinating the relationship between the top and bottom has always been John's main job.
And physical coach Mel, etc., they are all special positions, and they are not suitable for data analysis.
Therefore, Gao Bo can only carry it one shoulder. Although in terms of strength, Gao Bo believes that Luton's strength is quite strong in the second division. But even the Premier League teams are sometimes overthrown by lower-level league teams, let alone Luton?
And Luton can't afford to lose. They were deducted 30 points. If you want to upgrade, you can only ensure that you don't lose as much as possible.
So Gao Bo will not relax in any league. He does not allow himself to make the mistake of underestimating the enemy. This season, Luton's fault tolerance rate is very low.
Gillingham was the team that was relegated from League One to the second division last season, and Luton is a hard brother.
But Gillingham's lineup has not gone into too much turmoil, they still retain the first division lineup, so many commentators believe that Gillingham will be one of the hottest teams to upgrade this season.
However, the promotion favorite Gillingham meets the relegation favorite Luton, but the situation of the game is not as expected.
Before the game, many people thought that Gillingham would have the advantage. Although Luton defeated Port Vale by a big score in the last round of the league, on the one hand, Port Vale itself is not a strong team. In addition, Luton sits at the home court and it is not surprising that the players are in good condition to score a big score. But Gillingham is a team determined to return to the First Division, and this time Luton is playing away.
But Luton's performance was once again beyond everyone's expectations.
Gillingham, who played at home, was almost helpless. Luton's high position pressure made Gillingham completely unable to adapt. They wanted to attack, but found that the forward pass line was blocked, and when they tried When the long pass slammed, Luton's young central defender Jeffrey's header ability almost made it difficult for Gillingham to take advantage of the high-altitude ball.
Offensively, Gillingham's defense has been repeatedly penetrated by Luton.
In twelve minutes of the game, Luton scored. It was the starting forward Charlie Austin who scored the goal. He succeeded in scoring a point in the penalty area and sending the ball into Gillingham's goal.
Not long after this goal, Charlie Austin scored again. In the eighteenth minute of the game, Kevin Keane made a cross from the side. Charlie Austin nodded before the goal and the football hit the ground. Get into a blind spot!
The first half was Charlie Austin's performance, and in the second half, Vardy started to show off.
In the 68th minute of the game, Vardy succeeded in a single-handed push against the offside goal post, rewriting the score to three to zero. This score did not last long. In the 73rd minute of the game, just five minutes after the last goal, Vardy had the same chance again and rewritten the score to four to zero.
This is also the score after the end of the game.
Four to zero! !
Luton won an away game to upgrade the popular team Gillingham!
After the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, Gao Bo breathed a sigh of relief and stood up from the coach's bench. He was very calm in this game, because he did all the thorough preparations before the game, and there were no accidents during the game. U U Reading www.uukanshu.com
This is a perfect game. Perfection is not only reflected in the score, but in the process.
Almost every step of the game is carried out in accordance with the team's pre-match plan.
After ten minutes, he attacked and scored two goals.
Around 70 minutes into the second half, he attacked again and scored two more goals.
The opponent's tactics, the opponent's substitution adjustment, and the opponent's offensive method after the substitution. Gao Bo had said this over and over again on the tactical board before the game.
This is a very smooth game, so smooth that almost the game script is written by Gao Bo.
"Kevin, come to the press conference with me!"
The people who opened the locker room high, said to Kevin.
The locker room was a mess, and the players are celebrating the victory. But when Gaomen came in, the volume of the locker room was immediately reduced. The players looked at Gao Bo with awe. In these games, Gao Bo was almost like a magician, remotely controlling the game on the coach's bench. process.
The players have even begun to privately turn Gao Bo into a wizard-if not a wizard, how could it be so clear about the game that hasn't happened yet?
The players are now in awe and awe of Gao Bo. Although Gao Bo is only twenty-seven years old, not much older than most players, the difference between the coach and the players still puts a gap between the players and Gao Bo.
Gao Bo actually has no intention to mingle with the players. He is the head coach of the team, not the brothers of the players. What you need as a head coach is the majesty of a father, not the loyalty of working for your brother.
"Yes, boss!"
Kevin Keane is a few years older than Gao Bo, but he now also calls Gao Bo "the boss".