Chapter 176: Preparing for the Europa League

Milton Keynes Dons was less than 30 kilometres away from Luton Town, so when the game was over, the whole team was quickly on the team's bus.

The result of bringing back three points from a noisy neighbor was so exciting for the whole team that the players simply sang in the car, and even Saul Campbell, who had an ice pack on his ankle, echoed the singing of his teammates loudly from his seat.

Gao Bo was not involved and was discussing Saul Campbell's injury with members of the coaching staff.

Judging by his ankle condition, it will take at least a week or so to recover, and it could be extended if you take into account Saul Campbell's age.

Gao Bo's expression was a little solemn, it seems that he is still too optimistic before the start of the season, maybe he should promote one or two more players from the academy who can play at central defender, and temporarily fill the team's bench.

Haruko sat on the side and watched Takaami talking to the rest of the coaching staff.

She and Gao Bo are alumni, and they have known each other since they were in school.

Haruko looked at Gao Bo's side face, and she remembered what she suddenly said to Gao Bo two days ago. Haruko is not a bold person, many times she will even be a little timid and reserved, but at that moment, Haruko suddenly didn't know how to muster the courage to say what was probably her boldest words.

I don't know what Gao Bojun thinks....

Haruko thought about it, her cheeks crimson. Speaking of which, twenty-six-year-old Haruko has never been in love....

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The team's next game is on October 22, in the third round of the Europa League group stage, where Luton Town will host Serie A giants Roma!

After a win over Milton Keynes Dons, Luton climbed to the top of the First Division table. As a promoted team, Luton's shine in the First Division is too dazzling.

As long as they don't have any big flaws in the second half of the season, upgrading is almost a sure thing.

This is the consensus of the English media, and Luton's performance in the First Division is simply too consistent. Gobo's side have seen an unprecedented boost in their self-confidence after beating the Premier League giants, which has also made them even better in the league.

Normally, Serie A news rarely appears in the big media, but Luton Town are special – they have a Europa League game to play.

The Europa League news is very popular, so when those media outlets mention the Europa League, they can't help but mention Luton Town in the First Division.

Luton have been in the mainstream media far more often this season than they were last season, almost just in time for them to reach the FA Cup final in the second half of last season.

However, for Gao Bo, his life has not changed, he still lives in an apartment, and then repeats the life of the training ground - the apartment two points and one line every day, and leads the team on match days.

As he led the team to better results, his neighbors became more and more welcoming.

And the change appears in places that Gao Bo can't see.

Domestically, the news about Luton is now almost weekly in newspapers and on the Internet.

Because Zheng Zhi freely switched to Celtic in the Scottish Premiership, and Sun Jihai was loaned back to China from Sheffield United to join Chengdu Tiancheng, so at this time in the five major leagues, the figure of Chinese is almost extinct - there is a Sun Xiang in the Austrian league, but it is difficult for this European minor league to have news outflow.

So now Gao Bo is a foreign coach with more domestic news pages. It is not uncommon for domestic fans to stay abroad, but it is the first time that a foreign coach has experienced it, which in itself is a news gimmick.

Because of the development of media in England, many domestic media do not even need to spend money to send reporters to England, and they can transform the news reports of English media into their own "exclusive news" through the Internet.

Anyway, it is unlikely that their English counterparts will come all the way to trouble them.

Gao Bo didn't know that he was already very famous in China, even if he returned to China now, he could be called a "high guide" figure.

And Wang Duoduo came to Luton from London in order to get first-hand information about "high guidance".

After all, not all of China's press circles are news porters, and there are still people who are willing to do news themselves.

Wang Duoduo is such a person who is willing to pay for his feelings, although in the eyes of many senior journalists, this guy is completely stupid.

Isn't it good to honestly carry the English media coverage?

In fact, this is also related to Gao Bo's fame, as long as he becomes more and more famous, those rich big media in China will send reporters over sooner or later, Wang Duoduo knows this very well, so for him, time is very important.

Luton Town are preparing for the Europa League and are now on the sidelines, during the regular 15-minute media hours each day, with a black-haired journalist appearing.

Wang Duoduo is watching the team's training.

The specific command of the training is an English coach in charge, but where is Gao Bo?

Wang Duoduo quickly found Gao Bo standing on the sidelines in sportswear - after all, at this time on the training ground, Gao Bo's aura could easily let people know his role.

Gao Bo seemed a little unhappy with the training situation, and he quickly blew the whistle and walked into the middle of the players, saying something out of his mouth, accompanied by body language with strokes.

Luton's players nodded and listened, and then Gao Bo stepped back and motioned for training to continue.

Wang Duoduo has watched many teams train in London, and Gao Bo's training doesn't seem to be anything new, just from the training situation, you can't see anything.

And it's only fifteen minutes a day.

Luton's staff soon came to clear the ground, politely escorted the reporters out of the training ground, and closed the gates, which were covered with tin sheets, so that no one could see what was going on inside the training ground.

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Gao Bo did not know the situation at home, and he was still concentrating on preparing for the Europa League.

Roma this team, just by hearing the name, you know that they are not easy to deal with, now that Luton has six points and ranks first in the group, they must have become the target of public criticism, Roma has long been holding back enough to beat Luton and win three points!

At this stage of the group stage, no one will see Luton as underdogs, and Gao Bo knows this very well.

The rest is a hard hit of strength!

In the next round of the group stage, if they win, then Luton's group format can be said to be the sky, they only need to take three more points to ensure group qualification, and if Luton lose then this group format is very interesting.

Basel's victory over CSKA Sofia is very likely, and Gao Bo will not think about Basel's loss. If Luton lose to Roma, then Luton, Basel and Roma will all have six points! In this way, it is difficult to say who will qualify.

Rome must have come with the intention of defeating Luton.

'We had no choice but to give it our all and beating Luton Town away would give us back some of the advantages in the group and if we lose it will be difficult for us. Before Roma departed for England, their captain Totti spoke in front of the cameras of the media.

Time flies, and the last bunches of wheat stalks in the golden wheat fields around Luton are chopped up and scattered in the dirt.

The Roma team arrived in Luton, a small city in England.

The third round of the Europa League, a crucial battle!

It's about to be staged in this small town.