Soccer Card System

Chapter 11 Team Building
Chapter 11 Team Building

But obviously not now, because this is the first time Gao Bo has seen his players.

During this period of time, he has gone through the information of the players who can be used for trial several times, and now he needs to combine training and his smart eye skills that can only be used once a day to select players suitable for his tactics, and to figure out the main frame of the team first.

Gao Bo in the previous life was also a die-hard fan. Gao Bo was extremely impressed with the Leicester City that created the myth in the 2015-2016 season.

Ranieri's team almost snatched the Premier League championship from the mouth of the Premier League powerhouse on the basis of last season's relegation, and staged a grassroots counterattack!
A team may be able to defeat a strong opponent with a temporary performance, but if it wants to win the long league competition, it obviously cannot do without a few brushes.

And Gao Bo in this life is a professional coach. After combining the memories of the Leicester City team in his mind, he summed up several key points: rapid transfer, creating space by moving in offense, compact stance when defending, piling up players in the penalty area to prevent the opponent's wings from forming shots, and constantly pressing the opponent's players with the ball.

Leicester City's formation is a classic 4-4-2. Ranieri requires the team to be compact and it is difficult for the opponent to control them.Vardy sits up front, with Shinji Okazaki behind him, and will drop back to assist the midfield when necessary.

The goal of Leicester City is to reduce the distance between each other as much as possible, force the opponent to attack from the two wings, and can only pass the ball into the penalty area from both sides, which is why they pile up players in the penalty area.

Once Leicester City steals the ball, they switch from defense to offense very quickly. The players will directly pass long passes to Vardy and quickly form a counterattack. Vardy and Okazaki Shinji go straight into the middle of the opponent's defense, attracting the defense of the opponent's central defender and creating space for the teammates of the second echelon behind them.

If the defensive counterattack does not work, Leicester City will switch to a positional battle. The striker will advance forward and the second-tier players behind the striker will make a vertical impact towards the opponent's penalty area.

Once the ball is lost, Leicester City will immediately press and defend the opponent to prevent the opponent from forming an attack, which will make it difficult for the opponent to deal with.When turning from offense to defense, Vardy is the first line of defense. He will press the opponent's ball holder. Kanter and Drinkwater will support him in the midfield.

Several key players who performed miracles for Leicester City were called up by Gao Bo, so this set of tactics can also be transplanted to Luton now.

According to the plan, the players will take a week to restore their physical condition to the state they were in the competition stage of last season-after a holiday, many players have gained a lot of weight.

After that, there will be ten days of intensive physical fitness training. No matter what tactics are implemented on the field, physical fitness is the foundation of the team.

After the training started, Gao Bo turned on the football test system.

When a light curtain appeared again, Gao Bo always looked at the unresponsive crowd with a guilty conscience.

This light curtain can only be seen by himself.

Equip cards!

Card equipped successfully!

On the hollow Kacha, a card emitting blue light fits right on the edge of the card and is embedded in it. At the same time, several lines of blue fonts on the card also emit light.

Training effect increased by 15%!

After the card was equipped, Gao Bo looked around and found nothing unusual.

It wasn't until a week later, when the physical coach and team doctor Haruko came to report the players' status, that Gao Bo discovered the awesomeness of this skill.

"Hey, it seems that the players have put in a lot of training. In less than a week, almost all the players have lost weight." Mel Donald said excitedly.

Gao Bo pinched his chin. It's not because of the players' high level of commitment. It's clearly the effect of the training cards.It seems that the effect of this card is really good.

"In this case, let's start the next stage of training as soon as possible!"

Pre-season training is the most critical preparation stage for the whole season, and time is running out.

"Uh, it's just that there is another player whose training condition is not ideal..." Mel Donald said with a bitter face.

"who is it?"

"Sam Parker"

Mel Donald said with some distress, in Donald's view, the team can only rely on this 27-year-old experienced striker on the front line, and this striker seems to lack a competitive mentality, and the level of investment in training can only be described as three days of fishing and two days of netting.

Gao Bo has an impression of this forward, but his positioning of Sam Parker is not as a main forward, but as a substitute. With forwards of the level of Vardy and Charlie Austin, a forward like Sam Parker who has never heard of it in his previous life is naturally not competitive at all.

But this Sam Parker is so lazy, he doesn't seem qualified to be a substitute.
"Then don't care about him. When his weight returns to a normal level, let him join the team for training. Otherwise, let him train alone." Gao Bo didn't care. He was just a substitute striker and had nothing to do with the overall situation.

Mel Donald was stunned: "This Sam Parker is considered a very good striker in the second division."

Gao Bo waved his hands, with a signature confident smile on his face: "Mel, Vardy and Charlie Austin are not just strikers at the second division level!!"

Mel Donald obviously didn't believe it, but Gao Bo didn't explain anything. Instead, he asked with interest: "That means that if this Sam Parker is put on the transfer market, some teams still need it?"

Mel Donald nodded: "In the Second Division, a striker of Sam Parker's level has also played in the First Division. Many Second Division teams will be interested."

"If we take him out for exchange, I want a tall central defender with strong frontal defense and air defense!" Gao Bo leaned forward.The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case.

He has observed many Luton players one after another these days.

First of all, in the forward and midfield, there are four players, Vardy, Charlie Austin, Drinkwater, and Kanter. The main players in these four positions must be these players, and the team captain Kevin Keane will also occupy a midfield left or right.

In this way, a starting lineup needs at least two defenders on the left and right sides, a full-back, a midfield player and a strong goalkeeper.

There are quite a few candidates for the defender Luton on the left and right sides. After Gao Bo's observations these days, there are at least a few qualified players at the level of the second division.

At the technical level, the attributes of the two are similar. Gao Bo pays more attention to the 22-year-old Claude, because this goalkeeper is much more devoted and hardworking than Dean Polly in training.

What worries Gao Bo is that Luton now lacks a central defender with sufficient air defense capabilities. Except for George Parker, Luton's remaining central defenders are all players under the age of 20. Most of them are thin and difficult to withstand the impact of those tall centers in the league.

"Let the scouting department go and search first, our training can't stop!"

Gao Bo made a decision. He still has [-] pounds of transfer funds on hand. If Sam Parker is added to the deal, he should be able to buy a qualified central defender.

(End of this chapter)