Soccer Card System

　　 Chapter 145 The Need to Boost Confidence

　　 Sol Campbell does feel better.

　　 After a game, he didn't feel as tired as before. Although this is a warm-up game, Sol Campbell can feel that he is completely at ease, even in a formal game, he can stick to the whole game.

　　 It seems that the coach’s training effect is really good! Sol Campbell attributed this to the coach's training method, so he doesn't reject such intensity training.

　　 Just a few days of training can improve his physical fitness so much, Sol Campbell is almost happy. If he had such a physical reserve in the first two seasons, how could Arsenal's slightly younger central defenders grab his main position.

　　 Luton's training in Spain continues. Of course, in addition to training, Gao Bo will find a team to warm up every week.

For many big teams, their summer warm-up match is a trip to make money. They go to the Middle East, North America, East Asia, and commercially successful clubs like Manchester United or Real Madrid. They go out to play airport friendly matches in the summer. It can be tens of millions.

　　 For Luton, this kind of treatment is obviously impossible. So Gao Bo didn't let the team participate in any commercial activities before the season-he didn't have much money anyway. The Marbella Football Center has complete training facilities and can find suitable warm-up opponents at any time.

　　 Luton’s pre-season training was orderly. Under the sunshine of the Iberian Peninsula, Luton’s players had no distractions. In the most important pre-season stage, the team did a very solid job.

　　 At the end of July, according to the plan, Luton will leave the Marbella Football Center on July 31. For the players, they don’t want to leave sunny Spain and return to rainy England.

　　 On July 30th, the team had the last warm-up match in Spain. The opponent was the Spanish Serie A team Getafe.

　　 The two sides agreed to play at five o'clock in the afternoon, and at this time there are still two teams playing on the field they will use.

　　 The players sit on the sidelines and wait for the court to become vacant before they will go in to warm up. Near the start of the season, the competition venues at the Marbella training base also appeared tight.

　　 "When we return to England, we will say goodbye to the sunshine here, and get ready for training in the rain! Anthony" Vardy said, patting Griezmann on the shoulder.

After a month of getting along, Luton’s several newcomers have gradually integrated into the team, and Griezmann’s strength has also been recognized by the Luton players-they generally believe that compared to Charlie Austin , Griezmann is obviously much better.

　　 "Ah sunshine please don't miss me"

　　 Griezmann hadn't spoken yet, but Alex Sandro wailed first.

　　 "There is a lot of rain during the rainy season in Brazil, right"

　　 "The rainy season is our offseason" Alex Sandro smiled triumphantly: "The sun in Brazil is usually brighter than in Spain"

　　 Sandro has a good language talent. He is now using bumpy English to communicate with his teammates.

　　 But what he said caused a lot of resentment

　　 The rain in England really makes most people dislike it

　　 Gao Bo was very concerned about the final warm-up.

　　 Before this warm-up match, the team had three warm-up matches. The results of the game were tied, negative, and tied!

　　 The result of the warm-up match is not important, because it is a warm-up match and there are no restrictions on substitutions, so Gao Bo often played with two different lineups in the first and second half, and was experimenting with some new tactics.

　　 But this warm-up match against Getafe is the last warm-up before the start of the new season.

　　 This is equivalent to a quiz game, to test the degree of integration of new players into the team, and how much combat effectiveness this set can have compared to last season's lineup.

　　 Getafe is still a good opponent. Although they are a La Liga team, they ranked 17th in La Liga last season and almost were relegated from the first league-in fact, their points are the same as Real Betis who has been relegated, and even a goal difference. They are all the same, but the ranking of the same points in La Liga is based on the mutual record-Getafe is one win and one loss for Real Betis, but on the goal difference between the two sides, Getafe only won a goal. It can be said that the process of relegation is quite thrilling.

　　 So this is an opponent who is not too strong, but if you defeat them, you can also greatly boost your confidence

　　 As everyone knows, Getafe also came to Luton to warm up with this idea.

　　 But anyway, Getafe is after all a team in the Spanish League. Compared with the English League, their strength is much stronger. But Luton is not an ordinary League One team, otherwise they would not have won the FA Cup. So for Getafe, if they can win the FA Cup championship team, it will not be an increase in team confidence.

　　 Before the start of the game, Gao Bo emphasized the significance of this warm-up game-this is a test before the start of the official game!

　　 This is equivalent to an exam! So Luton's players' involvement in this game is very different from the previous games!

　　 Gao Bo dispatched the main lineup in the first half.

　　 If all these players in the starting lineup behave normally, then in the next official game, Luton's starting lineup will be like this.

　　 Luton’s next game is the Community Shield, and their opponent is Manchester United!

　　 Community Shield is actually similar to the Spanish Super Cup and other games. They are tournaments with a little warm-up before the start of the season. Unlike the warm-up match, the Community Shield is a formal match anyway, and the winner can bring back a championship trophy after the match.

Manchester United is undoubtedly very strong, but Luton will at least not say that he will directly surrender with his hands. Gao Bo does not value the tasteless trophy of the Community Shield, but he still hopes that the team can play something when facing Manchester United. At least give the new season a good start.

　　 Getafe players feel more complicated when facing Luton.

　　 Luton's reputation is very big-they can win the FA Cup as a second division, this matter has made the whole European football know about Luton.

　　 They are called "the grassroots team's counterattack" in the media.

　　 What is Vardy from a mason to a team forward? What is Charlie Austin from a bricklayer to a multi-million dollar tomorrow star?

　　 The story of a grassroots counterattack like this is something that many people like to chant, and the Getafe players do the same. They also like this story.

　　 But when they really face this recently popular team in Europe on the football field, they feel a little strange.

　　 In any case, Luton is only a team in the English First Division-a third-level team, roughly equivalent to the second division b?

　　 On the one hand, it is the admiration of the opponent's "inspirational deeds". On the other hand, Getafe's players seem to not appreciate the strength of Luton.

　　 So Getafe was a tragedy in the first half.

　　 Griezmann grew up in the Spanish youth training system, so he is very familiar with the Spanish team's style. This also allowed him to score two goals in the first half.

After 　　, he even assisted Vardy to score!

　　 In the first half of the game, Getafe was scored three goals by Luton.

　　 Getafe's players are dumbfounded. They didn't expect that Luton's strength is so powerful-at least better than Getafe.

　　 In the second half, Gao Bo sent all the substitute players, and Getafe also began to press on to rehearse their offense.

　　 As a result, Getafe besieged halftime without scoring a goal, but Luton counterattacked and lost the ball.

　　The young backup midfielder Joseph Andel scored a goal.

　　 At the end of the game, the score was four to zero!

　　 Luton won a big win in the pre-season warm-up match!

　　 Gao Bo was very satisfied with the results and process of this game. The strength of the main players is quite sharp, and the substitute players are also useful. The results of the game also made the players' confidence skyrocket before the start of the season.

　　 What could be better than this?