Chapter 27 League Cup

Chapter 27 League Cup

Signing Adam was the logical thing to do.

Gao Bo did not immediately bring Adam to the first team, because Adam has not been educated by the youth training system of the professional league before today. It would be extremely irresponsible for Adam's growth to let him go directly from street football to professional football. ——For many young people, they must be fully prepared to accept the challenge in the professional league, in order to go further in the future career path.

Adam's ball sense and skills are very good, but he still has a lot to improve. The most important part is teamwork. Street football is a venue to show off his skills, but professional football is a hall for the pursuit of victory. Adam's current physical condition is also not suitable for appearing on the competitive professional arena.

The children in the training camp looked at Adam with admiration. Of course they knew that this kid was going to develop. He must have been in the eyes of the first team coach. Before long, his training ground will be the training base of the first team.

Since Adam lives in East London, which is dozens of kilometers away, the Luton Club has to solve the housing problem for the Adam brothers. Of course, Gao Bo would not ask such a question. He is the head coach of the team, not a family nanny for young players.

Gao Bo spent the whole day in the youth training camp. After the children in the youth training camp ended a day of training, Gao Bo also returned to his residence.

The day's holiday came to an end quickly, and when the players showed up on the training ground again, the first-round victory clearly gave them unlimited confidence.

Port Vale is not a strong team, but they were able to win at home, which shows that the team has been training very solidly in the past two months.

This has strengthened the players' confidence in relegation this season.

But the next game is not a league, but a League Cup game.

The English League Cup, also known as the English Football League Cup (English Football League Cup), is a competition between 92 teams in the English professional league system.

The background of the establishment of this competition is that the English Football League was established in 1962 to fight the FA Cup controlled by the English Football Association. The purpose is to allow each club to have a knockout system outside the league. the match of. But although the League Cup has a long history, its status in the hearts of fans is far inferior to that of the FA Cup.

The League Cup competition is divided into seven rounds, except for the semi-finals, which are all decided by a single knockout situation.

Teams will draw lots to decide their opponents and home and away games. If the game is tied within 90 minutes, it will be decided by overtime. If overtime still fails to decide the winner, then a penalty kick will be used to decide the winner.

The participating teams in the first round include all Championship, League One and League Two teams. Except for the teams participating in European competitions, other Premier League teams will join in the second round.

Founded in 1886, the Football League originally governed all 92 professional clubs in England at all levels, but in 1992, after the 20 teams of the First Division defected to form a parallel Super League, there were only 72 clubs left. indivual. Since the level of the club in charge is not the highest, the weight of the words is naturally not as good as before, and if you want to let the top clubs in the Premier League participate in the League Cup, it is natural to look at other people's faces.

The status of the League Cup is already ranked after the Premier League (League One before 1992) and the FA Cup. For the top clubs in the Premier League, the League Cup is just a game for training substitutes. Of course, for these clubs, it is also helpless to ignore the League Cup, because in addition to participating in the league, FA Cup and League Cup, they also have to participate in the lucrative Champions League or Europa League. If the results are good, they will go all the way. Nine months of a season can reach nearly 70 games,

Nearly two games a week, and the players are not iron. Therefore, some Premier League giants will send a large number of bench players and even youth troops to participate in the game.

But for Luton, the League Cup is not tasteless.

Small and medium-sized clubs can use the League Cup to gain the opportunity to play against strong teams. With the help of strong teams, they can not only get tickets and TV broadcast income, but also expand their influence by appearing on TV and newspapers. Especially if there is a big upset accidentally, it will be a big happy event for the fans.

The opponent Luton was drawn in the first round of the League Cup was Nottingham Forest, a team from the British Championship. Fortunately, Luton was drawn at home, eliminating the need to travel to the away game.

Nottingham Forest, like Luton last season, were both teams in the First Division, but after the end of the season, the fate of the two sides was different.

Nottingham Forest won the first league runner-up and was promoted to the British Championship. And Luton was unfortunately relegated, and now has been deducted 30 points in the second division struggling to avoid relegation.

Gao Bo is no stranger to the Nottingham Forest team, because this team is already famous in England.

Although this team has been absent from the English top flight for many years, in the late 1970s, this team had a whirlwind in Europe!

In the 1978-1979 season and the 1979-1980 season, Nottingham Forest won the Champions League twice! Nottingham Forest is second only to Liverpool and Manchester United in the number of Champions League trophies of English teams!

Before drawing this opponent, Gao Bo did not intend to invest too much energy in the League Cup. After all, for Luton, their lineup is still a little thin, and they are already stretched to deal with the league. If the Heart Cup is played, it may be a big drag on the league.

However, the football card system suddenly released a task before this game.

[Task]: Win the game against Nottingham Forest.

[Quest Reward]: Six hundred experience points, randomly draw a yellow card!

Yellow card?

Gao Bo hesitated. If it was a lottery, it would be difficult to draw a colored card—the probability of drawing a white card was too high.

In the end, Gao Bo decided to use the main lineup in this game. Because at the beginning of the season, the league schedule is not dense, the League Cup game is on August 13, and Luton's next league game is on August 18. There is a five-day difference between the two games, enough players They rested and recovered.

Gao Bo hopes that after winning Nottingham Forest in this game, it is best to draw a bigger Premier League team in the second round. The attention of the top league teams is very different from that of the lower leagues. In terms of broadcast share, this income is enough to make Luton a little more financially comfortable.

Of course, if the League Cup schedule will affect the league in the future, Gao Bo will not hesitate to give up the cup.

After all, the league is the foundation. Gao Bo doesn't want to stay in the second league for too long, he hopes to lead the team to upgrade as soon as possible!

However, it is not easy to win a team at the level of the British Championship, especially to win Nottingham Forest. Nottingham Forest is a difficult team to deal with, just like the city of Nottingham. Historically, the city of Nottingham But the place where Robin Hood, the most famous green forest thief in the world, has gone out, so Nottingham people are full of some "heroic spirit". Nottingham has recently won the first place in the "Britain's Most Dangerous City" selected by the Insurance Association of England. England police statistics "British gun crime center of gravity"...

The temperament of the team of Nottingham Forest is naturally the same as that of the city. It has a rigid temperament. This does not mean that the style of the Nottingham team is dirty, but that this team always has a tenacity. , Perhaps this is the so-called team's heritage - after all, it is also the team that has won the Champions League twice.