Match Day Thread First game (pre-season) against NY Red bulls

now, 8 PM ET.. most of you will be sound asleep.
Ivan leads a very strong line up


Courtois
Ivan Cahill Happy Dave
Mikel Cesc
Moses Oscar Traore
Remy

 

Remy grabs first around 27 mins . Oscar assisted.
Moses looks lively. Had couple of decent runs and shots on goals.

 

Bertrand delivered an amazing cross for Remy, but he misses from 2 yards with goal gaping..

 

Courtois needs to buck up now Cech has gone, blunders like that will cost in the prem.

 

you are right, Courtois needs to remove that laziness from his game.

Bulls equalise immediately in 2nd half.

Wholesale changes in 2nd half.

Rambo, Costa, Matic, JT, Eden, LC, Asmir come in for Mikel, Fab, Bertrand, Moses, Remy, Cahill, Thib

 

Costa hits the crossbar with a header and his follow up is over.

 

16 year old baby faced kid puts bulls 2-1 up.

entire D line slept for that header. Shame.

Ivan was replaced by a kid at RB during HT.

 

3rd now for the Bulls.
preaseson but shame.

 

Eden pulls one back from well worked set piece.

 

Feck - 4-2 bulls.

Rambo is a disgrace. This is League one quality oppsitions 'C' team.

 

4-2 Jose does not look happy.

 

Costa misses one on one against keeper.
Jose has iron face.

Eden is awesome. Only good about 2nd half.

 

Courtois is blunderful. He regularly drops clangers but apparently it doesn't matter as he "commands his area" so well.

 

Didn't see the game. How was Traore? Saw the press conference and Jose said both he and Moses are in his plans for next season. Guess that's why we don't need another winger. Hazard, Willian, Cuadrado, Moses, Traore, Oscar and even Ramires. Still got Salah for now too....

 

Haven't watched but...oops?

 

bah its pre season.
First game for weeks for a lot of these players.
MLS is right in the middle of its season.
Plus it wasn't exactly our strongest team, especially in the first half.

I generally pay no heed to the teams performance until Day 1 of the PL.

 

Anyone who gets overly excited or overly critical based on a friendly 1 week into pre season training needs their head examined.

A kick about, nothing more.

 

This.

 

Preseason blah blah I agree.
All Preseason games are like fighting a girl. You will not be champs if you win, but losing is still a disgrace.

None of the other teams shipped 4 goals within 40 mins in their preseason game.

Defence needs fixing. JT cannot repeat last season's all games appearance.

I worry about RB / LB & CB positions. Need atleast 2 part time first team players for these 3 positions.