Chapter Eighty-Five: The Away Battle of Coventry

With just over two months to go until the end of the season, Gao Bo is in no hurry to agree to any of the offers.

He needs Charlie's consistent highlight, and it's like packaging, and the better Charlie's performance, the more he will be able to sell for money. With owner David Morton promising to transfer all the transfer fees to next season's recruitment budget, Gao Bo is now working very hard to make Charlie shine and attract the attention of his patrons.

On 28 February, in the 33rd round of the league, Luton Town hosted Shetsebury.

As Brentford, who are second in the league, and Wycombe Rover, the top team in the league, played first in this round of the league, they lost one after another, while the third place Boehly suffered two consecutive defeats, and Luton only need to beat Shrewbury in this game to overtake Brentford and move to second place in the league, only seven points behind Wycombe Wanderers!

So Luton Town were quite excited in this game, and Charlie Austin was also in great form, scoring two goals in this game, his twelfth in four games, and such crazy form has caught the attention of the English media. The second division is a professional league anyway, and eleven goals have been scored in four rounds, an average of three goals per game, which is equivalent to scoring a hat-trick in four consecutive rounds! The striker in such a crazy state even the mainstream media has paid attention to it.

Blackburn Rovers withdrew from the "Charlie Austin" race, and now they have joined the battle to become those top league giants, including super giants such as Manchester United and Liverpool, and have also become interested in Charlie Austin.

After all, this is a young man who is only nineteen years old, and more importantly, he is still English!

That makes Charlie Austin attractive enough.

The win in this round of games brought Luton Town closer to the top of the table, and four days after the game, on March 4, the 34th round of the league, the team took on Port Vale away.

Speaking of which, Port Vale also has a striker who has a grudge against the team, and that is Sam Parker, who was originally traded by Gobo for Matt Smit.

However, the former Luton striker has also lost his place in Port Vale, which has struggled this season, and they are now only two points clear of the relegation zone, and they have done well defensively, but the team's lackluster attack has allowed them to gain too much 0-0...

So in the second half of the league, the head coach of Port Vale adjusted the team's attacking lineup, and Sam Parker could only sit on the bench for this game.

Matt Schmidt, who was originally traded with him from Port Vale, started this game. Despite being both bench strikers, Matt Schmidt still got a lot of playing opportunities at Luton Town with a player like Sam Parker who struggled to get a chance to play on the bench. He was a regular substitute in Gobo's hands and got more or less a chance to play in almost every game.

As the FA Cup quarter-finals are about to start in three days' time, Luton will go to the Ricoh Stadium to challenge Coventry, and now the FA Cup game has been adjusted to the priority level of the league by Gao Bo, so Gao Bo decided to rest some of the main players in this game.

However, Charlie Austin did not take a rest, and he continued to brush up on the court.

In the twenty-seventh minute of the game, he scored again. Matt Schmidt's header from inside the box was deflected to the back post and Charlie Austin slotted home to give Luton Town the lead.

Port Vale was also unable to bargain at Luton's feet in the following game. Charlie Austin opened the scoring early in the second half with another counter-attack into the box, before Matt Schmidt headed in Port Vale through a corner.

Luton Town beat their opponents 3-0 away and they now have 67 points after 34 league games! And with Wycombe Rovers held to a draw away by Notts County in this round, Luton are now five points away from the top of the table!!

A gap of five points!!

From minus 30 points to just five points from the top of the table, Gao Bo's team are not far from making a miracle, and they still have 12 games to create a championship legend that belongs to the second division.

Now, they have to set a legendary record in another arena as well.

The team arrived in Coventry City on 7 March for the FA Cup quarter-finals, and once Luton Town reached the last four, their next FA Cup game should be at Wembley.

Coventry is a city in West Middlelands, England, England, and was once the center of the textile industry, once one of the four major cities in the United Kingdom, but now it is a thing of the past. Although Coventry is now considered a big city in England, with a population of 350,000, this population is the size of a large city below London in England, but in Gao Bo's view, this scale is no different from a small county town in China.

Gao Bo is a native of Meizhou, Guangdong, Meizhou is not a big city in Guangdong, and it is a little-known small city in the country, but the registered population of Meizhou also exceeds five million....

THEREFORE, FOR 350,000 PEOPLE, IT IS CALLED A BIG CITY, AND THE HIGH WAVE EXPRESSION CAN ONLY BE EMMMMMMM......... I understood.

Anyway, John doesn't believe that Gao Bo is from a small city with a population of five million, and John doesn't even believe that China can have a city with a population of more than one million people in addition to big cities like Beijing and Shanghai...

For this reason, John specifically found Lin Sen for verification...

Lin Sen thought for a while, and said to John, "John... I'm from a small city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province, China... It's called Donghai County, and there are too many such small counties in China, so many people have never even heard the name of my hometown, but my hometown has a population of more than a million people..."

John and the other Brits had a ghostly expression, and could only sigh that China is really a country with a large population...

It was just a small episode of the team's arrival at Coventry, with Gao Bo more focused on the FA Cup opponents.

Coventry's head coach is Coleman, and when it comes to this gentleman, the reason why he was noticed by the media is that he is a good friend of Mourinho....

Gao Bo's previous life had no impact on this buddy, so he could only rely on the current information to analyze this opponent.

It's a pivotal battle, but it's just the beginning of the challenge. With Gao Bo already aiming for the FA Cup, Coventry is just the weakest opponent to beat on the way to the title. If Luton Town reach the semi-finals, they will face the big teams in the Premier League, no matter who they face next.

Arsenal or Liverpool? Or maybe Everton?

All three teams will have a good chance of reaching the last four, which is also Luton's opponent in the last four.

So although Gao Bo looks confident, he is not sure of winning against these opponents.

Either way, Luton Town will first have to beat the current team, Coventry from the Championship!