Sunderland travel to the Pinatar Arena in Murcia to face Nottingham Forest. Last time out Sunderland lost to Gateshead and Forest beat Chesterfield. The Lads travelled to Alicante on Monday 15th July and will spend seven days in Costa Blanca, facing Nottingham Forest on Friday 19th July before taking on Segunda División outfit CD Eldense on Sunday 21st July. Both fixtures will kick off at 7pm local time and be played at the Pinatar Arena, which is in San Pedro del Pinatar, Murcia. Forest are in Spain for a warm weather training camp as part of preparations for the 2024/25 season. During the trip, the First Team and B Team will both play three friendlies each, with all six matches to be played at Pinatar Arena. Nuno Espírito Santo’s side will face Sunderland on Friday 19th July before taking on Millwall four nights later, with both matches to kick off at 7pm local time. The first team’s trip to Spain will then conclude with a friendly against Elche on Saturday 27th July, kick-off 11am local time. Regis le Bris: "After two weeks of technical and physical work, for me it was the real start of the season because we are here to play games," said Sunderland's boss. "It was interesting, two different scenarios and teams. I felt that the players tried to express the ideas. "We want to build a strong unit and team with ideas in different phases in the game. We want to be a proactive team. We have talented players, but the ideas behind all of this preparation is to be a team. I think that we can build this team, but we need some time and different experiences to achieve that goal." Nuno Espirito Santo : "The squad is not complete yet, we still have to make decisions. More importantly we were able to keep our players," "So I'm really really happy about that, that we as a club are keeping our most important players because I believe that after the work of last season, this is what's going to give us the improvement through this season." "I think that we were solid, but more than anything, any aspect was to integrate the new players and to give minutes to everybody. "I think that we have a good foundation from last season. We have to continue to improve a lot of aspects and we know how many aspects we have to improve." Match Appointments: No idea Team Lineups: Sunderland AFC: (4-2-3-1) Patterson, Cirkin, Alese, O'Nien, Hume, Neil, Browne, Clarke, Rigg, Roberts, Rusyn Subs: Moore, Chibueze, Pembele, Hjelde, Anderson, Matete, Ekwah, Jobe, Auchiche, Embleton, Mundle, Hemir, Mayenda, Watson, Bennette. Injured: Ballard, Huggins, Seelt, Triantis, Ba. Nottingham Forest (3-4-2-1) Miguel; Worrall, Boly, Abbott; Williams, Dominguez, Anderson, Yates, Toffolo; Elanga, Dennis. Subs: Da Silva Moreira, Omobamidele, Murillo, Aina, Danilo, Bowler, Sangare, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi, Wood Injured: Awoniyi My two pence: It’s only a friendly, but it could give us a better idea of the current state of our squad against premiership quality. I'm hoping for a Shields type performance rather than a Gateshead one and I’m going for 2-2 draw. For all of those attending – great effort I’m going to miss this one as it clashes with my flight back home please log in to view this image Live Stream: https://www.safc.com/videos Ha’way the Lads
Looking forward to it. Forest should/will be big favourites but it’ll be a good test for us and another chance to build fitness.
This is a great chance for the lads to get some much needed minutes into their legs, result wise I am not too bothered this should be more about shape and style of play and how we are implementing the new coaches ideas. That said I would love to see some attacking intent and some chances created for our strikers.
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