Chapter 162: Who is the weakest in the group?

"Good audience friends!! Welcome to the first round of the 2009-2010 Europa League group stage where Luton Town took on CSKA Sofia!! ”

Mr. Letkinson's voice was heard on the television, and fans were already in full swing in the bars of Luton's city.

Gao Bo began to appear on the TV screen, and the fans quickly cheered, and then drank the beer in their hands.

The owner of the bar loves game day!

Gao Bo walked out of the players' tunnel, and he and CSKA Sofia coach Penev met in the dugout, and the two shook hands before moving to their respective positions.

Penev's information Gao Bo has already read it, speaking of which the coach is also quite young, only thirty-eight years old this year, of course, he is a little older than Gao Bo, but in the entire head coach's industry, Penev is young and promising. In June 2008, CSKA was temporarily excluded from UEFA due to financial problems, and the club began selling star players in order to alleviate the financial crisis, which led to the resignation of then-manager Miradanov. The new coach Penev then set out to build a young team and won the cup.

It's a matchup between two young teams.

At this time, the players of both teams began to walk into the stadium under the leadership of the referee, and the fans at the scene stood up.

CSKA Sofia fans were naturally cheering on their team, while Gao Bo was applauding his disciple.

Gao Bo looked at the stadium.

The Bulgarian Army Stadium, as soon as you hear the name, you will know what kind of relationship this stadium has with the Bulgarian army. In fact, many of the teams of many former socialist countries have the color of the army and government departments, the most famous is of course CSKA Moscow, which is considered to be the team of the Soviet Red Army, and Russia also has a "Soviet wings" team, and they have a close relationship with the Soviet Air Force......

At this time, in the stands of the stadium, CSKA Sofia fans were basically naked, with various slogans written on their bodies, and they clenched their fists and roared in the stands, looking quite strong.

"I didn't expect the fans here to be so fanatical!"

Gao Bo said to John on the side. It's his first time in Bulgaria.

John was also visiting Bulgaria for the first time, and this small Balkan country did not have a strong presence in Europe, and even if it was a tourist, the British probably would not think of going to Bulgaria.

John looked at the Sofia fans in the stands with a curious look, he was interested in the way they cheered topless, which was different from England after all... In England, if two men were shirtless together.... This picture is so beautiful, isn't this a solid name for a corrupt country.

In the background of the majestic Europa League theme song, players from both sides stepped onto the pitch!

As the players shook hands, CSKA Sofia looked at the England team with curious eyes. In this Europa League, Luton Town is a special team. On the one hand, they are FA Cup winners, and on the other hand, they are only a third-tier team in England. These two juxtapositions of information make Luton's opponents very conflicted, because it is difficult to know exactly where Luton are before the game starts.

Penev made a judgment before the game, and he told the players that they must not underestimate the Luton team, their strength is on par with CSKA Sofia!

In this group, the media generally believes that the two weakest teams are Luton Town and CSKA Sofia, and the other two teams in the same group are likely to take CSKA Luton River Sofia as the object of scoring points!

And for the two teams against in this game, if they want to qualify, then they must score points on the "fish belly" team in the group!

But as soon as the game began, CSKA Sofia players found out what group was the "weakest", and if such a team was the weakest, then how would CSKA Sofia deal with itself?

As soon as the game started, CSKA Sofia kicked off first, but as soon as they kicked the ball out, they found that they were completely suppressed!

Luton pressed hard and launched a rush in the aura!

Pressing in front! One of Gao Bo's favorite tactical routines!

Almost every CSKA Sofia player was closely marked, which made it very difficult for them to get the ball out, so the goalkeeper had to move forward with a big foot.

CSKA Sofia's striker meets Saul Campbell, who pinpoints the ball back to Drinkwater's feet!

Drinkwater passes the ball to Antoine Griezmann in front!!

Griezmann flicked the outside of his foot, and the ball was distributed to the wing, and Adam White on the wing was very fast, he rushed straight up, and then crossed with his left foot.

The left foot wasn't Adam White's main foot, so he couldn't control the ball and the ball was a little bit bigger.

But it didn't matter, Kevin Keane on the other side also followed, and he stopped the ball on the right side of the penalty area.

CSKA Sofia's defence was a bit of a disarray under Luton's pressure, and that's the benefit of pressing up front, and if you can tackle on the spot, then launching a counter-attack on the spot will be a great threat. At this time, the players in the CSKA Sofia penalty area were frightened by Luton's rather fast pass.

Saul Campbell headed forward, then Drinkwater went forward and Antoine Griezmann also made a forward pass.

Forward, forward, forward!!

The three consecutive feet are all longitudinal passes, without the slightest drag, and there is no horizontal return pass.

It was so fast that the players of CSKA Sofia were completely unprepared.

Gobo was on the sidelines when Saul Campbell headed in front of him, and the opposition were ready to attack, so such a counter-attack would be a dangerous attacking opportunity.

In fact, Kevin Keane didn't go straight to the high cross, but turned the ball back in an inverted triangle!

Antoine Griezmann's agility was on display, getting away from defenders on a couple of runs before firing a right-footed shot straight past Kevin Keane's pass!!

Amid the exclamations of the fans at the Bulgarian Army Stadium, the football flew towards the goal on the turf.

This... Impossible, right?!

CSKA Sofia's players had incredible shock on their faces. The ball had crossed the goal line and crashed into the net behind the goalkeeper!

How long has it been now? It's been less than a minute since the game started!!

In less than a minute, Luton Town scored!

Not only the CSKA Sofia players, but also the fans in the stands were dumbfounded.

Before the start of the game, even the most pessimistic Bulgarian media said that the game was close at best, as Luton Town were a team in the English First Division. Bulgarian football is not as developed as England's, but it's not like even the top clubs in their top flight can't play in the third tier of England, right?

But now what about ....

Judging from the opening minute, the situation is indeed not as optimistic as predicted by the Bulgarian media.

And for CSKA Sofia fans, it is really difficult for them to accept the situation on the field at this time.

Didn't Luton Town be the weakest team in the group?

Who's the weakest now?!