Before Kevin Keane took the kick, Gao Bo paced back and forth on the sidelines, then stood there, looking at his assistants behind him, but saying nothing.
He was actually a little worried, but he didn't show it on his face.
He couldn't tell anyone that at the moment Arsenal scored, his confidence had wavered a little.
He couldn't waver, he should always be high-spirited, he should always look like we can win.
This was the signal that a coach should convey to the players.
Never let the players see their weakness... because, when the team is behind, the coach is the pillar of the players...
And now, when he saw Vardy chest the ball into the opponent's goal, Gao Bo's suppressed emotions finally erupted!
He sprinted more than twenty meters on the sidelines, and near the corner flag area, he collided with Walsh, who had also run over to celebrate.
Gao Bo clenched his fists and roared with his disciple.
The players behind him also rushed up, and the two were quickly overwhelmed by the players on the field and the substitutes who rushed from the bench!!
"Vardy!!!!! Vardy!!!!! Vardy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Wright Kingston shouted the scorer's name from the stands.
"Vardy helped Luton equalize the score, and more importantly, Arsenal now have one player sent off, and they now have to face Luton with ten players!!!"
"Wenger's team is in crisis!! They are likely to be eliminated by Luton in the semi-finals!!!"
"The game time is now seventy-three minutes!! Including stoppage time, there are still twenty minutes left!! Luton will have a one-man advantage in these twenty minutes!!!"
"Eleven against ten!! The gap in strength between the two sides has been narrowed!! The score on the field has also become a tie!! The next twenty minutes of the game will be the twenty minutes that determine the fate of both sides. Will Arsenal advance, or will Luton create a miracle!! It all depends on the performance of both sides in these twenty minutes!" Wright Kingston said in one breath.
"Perhaps there will be thirty minutes of extra time..." Paul Merson added from the side.
The development of the game to this point does indeed have this possibility.
Although Arsenal are playing with ten men, they have so many talented players on the offensive end, so for Gao Bo, even if he now has one more player, he doesn't dare to let the team press forward to attack.
"Continue to defend!! We continue to play counter-attacks!!" Gao Bo quickly instructed during the celebration.
"Time is on our side now, John!" When the celebration ended, Gao Bo returned to the coaching bench and said this in response to John and others' doubts.
Even if they play extra time, Luton has nothing to fear.
Playing with one less player means that Arsenal must put in more running on the field, which will consume a lot of their energy.
Even if Wenger still has three substitution quotas in his hand, it is difficult for him to fill the energy gap caused by playing with one less player.
Gao Bo is not afraid of playing extra time, he is worried that the team will concede another goal in these twenty minutes.
"We continue to hit their counter-attacks!!" Gao Bo walked back and forth a few steps, and then said this, as if also firming his confidence.
"They are anxious now, we don't need to be anxious!!" Gao Bo made up his mind.
Gao Bo's judgment was correct, Arsenal's players seemed to be enraged at this time.
Facing a team that they usually look down on, they were actually scored a goal in the seventy-odd minute, losing the lead, and also having a player sent off.
This made Arsenal's stars feel a burning sensation on their faces, and they felt that the whole world was laughing at them at this time.
Ah... look, it was them, these players, who were reversed by a League Two team...
At the thought of such voices possibly appearing after the game, Arsenal's players were extremely eager to equalize the score as soon as possible.
So when the game resumed, Arsenal immediately launched a fierce counter-attack!
Wenger was also a little anxious, so he immediately made a substitution!
Twenty-year-old Mexican forward Vela stood on the sidelines preparing to play, and he was replacing... Alexandre Song!
Withdrawing a defensive midfielder and bringing on a forward! Even with one less player, Wenger decided to launch a counter-attack at the last moment!!
After Vela came on, Arsenal now had three forwards on the field, plus Nasri and Arshavin on both sides, and Fabregas in the middle. It can be said that Arsenal is now ready to go all out to attack!
Arsenal's formation now looks like a 333 formation, with three defenders at the back, Nasri, Fabregas, and Arshavin in the middle, and three forwards in the front.
Faced with such a fierce attack, Luton, who had one more player, also seemed a little strained.
Arsenal didn't expect the game to turn out like this, they didn't even prepare for extra time.
So after the score was equalized, they started a frantic attack!
Gao Bo saw it in his eyes. Although Arsenal's several shots made his heart beat faster and his pupils constrict sharply, as time passed, Gao Bo's heart became more and more calm.
From Arsenal's frantic attack in the last few minutes, he saw the meaning of a dying struggle.
Ninety minutes of attack had already consumed too much of their energy. What adjustments will Arsenal make next? They can still bring on two offensive players, but with one less player, when the energy of other players is exhausted, how much effect can bringing on two new forces have?
Charlie Austin had been warming up on the sidelines for a few minutes, but Gao Bo looked at the time and still didn't bring him on.
"Prepare to play extra time!!!!" Gao Bo immediately turned his head and said to John behind him.
Luton was of course prepared to play extra time. Charlie Austin finished warming up, and Gao Bo gave him some final instructions on some details.
Arsenal's final frantic attack failed to score, and when the referee blew the whistle to end the regular time, the pillars of Arsenal's players' bodies seemed to be emptied, and many players even started cramping.
The frantic attack in the last ten minutes or so had almost exhausted them.
Wenger completed a substitution in the eightieth minute of the game, replacing Nasri and Arshavin, who were a little unable to support their energy, with Walcott and Denilson.
Denilson is a midfielder who is good at long shots, while Arshavin is a new force breaking through on the wing.
But neither of these two substitutions helped Arsenal open up the situation. The regular game time ended, and the game was dragged into extra time.
Wenger was a little helpless, because at this time Arsenal had too many offensive players on the field, and the formation was seriously unbalanced. Wenger actually took a gamble at the last moment, but obviously he didn't succeed, and now Arsenal will have to bear the consequences of the failed gamble.
In extra time, they will use such an extreme formation to deal with Luton...
Wenger looked up at the sky. For Arsenal, they also need some luck now..