Team v East Fife

Felix made 11 changes at half time with the score at 0-0,final result
a win for Fulham 3-0,evedently m-o-t-m was Rodak,whose performance
between the sticks was superb.

 

And a brief summing up by Felix:

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“In pre-season it’s not so much about the results,” said Magath to fulhamfc.com. “These matches are part of our preparation alongside the squad working hard in training. Of course, our fitness will improve and this was just the start. But I was satisfied with the result and performance, it was positive. What we saw was the team getting the ball down and playing it forward – and we scored three goals.”

Summer signings Shaun Hutchinson and Kay Voser both started the match, while Tim Hoogland was introduced at the break.

“We saw two different Fulham teams today,” added Magath. “One in the first half and another in the second. We had some of our new players out there, and of course, it’s all about them slotting in and getting used to their teammates.

“It was good to get out there and play, it’s what the players want to be doing. We’ve got more games over the summer and we’ll continue to work hard.”

 

Inside this link there is a little video of our goals:


http://www1.skysports.com/football/...st-fife#ooid=AwbWxwbjrvSssFsiqu-u-g5mcqptN0XM

 

Is there more friendlies to be announced?

Going by the official site there looks to be only 4 friendlies scheduled which doesn't seem a lot. There's also a 2 week gap between the game with DC United and the Ipswich match, I assume this could be filled with a friendly match, possibly one at the Cottage? There's usually always at least one home friendly match.

 

Does anyone know where David, Roberts and Cole were??? I was expecting to get a bit of a game and I really hope they have travelled with the squad to Scotland??? I think no Richardson means he may be on the move.

Also does anyone have any idea who the three trialists were??? It appears one was Chihi who we have been linked to but no idea who the other two were??

 

On the ins and outs thread, Super Brian said, 'Three unnamed trialists play against East Fife possibly Adil Chihi (26)(MF) FC Koln, Mark Fotheringham (30)(MF) Notts County, Stefan Velkov (17)(CB) Slavia Sofia'. Cottager countered with the strong Twitter rumour that one of the trialists was Kostas Stafylidis, a 20 year old Greek left back who we might be taking on loan for the season from Bayer Leverkusen. Stafylidis' wikipedia page is already saying that he has joined us on loan, but take that with a pinch of unauthorised salt.

 

The third trialist wasn't Stafylidis or Stefan Velkov. Neither of them look anything like the lad that was playing on Saturday (Stafylidis was playing in Germany for Leverkusen yesterday.)