Pre-Season Thread

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I wonder who PSG are going to replace Trapp with?

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The first handball clearly wasn't enough.
 
Pleased I stayed up and I agree that this game has shown me that we don't have to panic about not having bought. We still have a very good team.
 
Done the 1st half.

Obviously the kids (CCV, KWP etc) showed some inexperience, but there
is no shame in trying to keep to the Pochettino game when you are
faced with an attack of Cavani / Rabiot / Pastore. Credit there to them.

Eriksen looks like he is going to pick up exactly from where he
finished last season.
 
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Blue and White said:
What are the dimensions of that pitch compared to Wembley?
Eriksen playing 90 minutes.
Good night
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I see no-one replied and it was too late (or early ) for me to investigate but I have now.
Orlando
Field size
114 yds × 74 yds (soccer)

Wembley: 115 yd x 75 yd

So we can definitely cope with the size and produce decent stuff and play a pressing game
 
Done the 2nd half.
Once the usual starting XI was on, the pressing game was
a handful for PSG (even if it had remained 11 vs 11) .

Having decent alternatives for Kane and Eriksen remains my
main concern.
 
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The RDBD said:
Done the 2nd half.
Once the usual starting XI was on, the pressing game was
a handful for PSG (even if it had remained 11 vs 11) .

Having decent alternatives for Kane and Eriksen remains my
main concern.
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To be fair, Jansenn again had no service so can't read too much there.

We will no doubt see how we cope without Eriksen in the next game. I imagine he will be rested as he played the full 90 here
 
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Blue and White said:
I see no-one replied and it was too late (or early ) for me to investigate but I have now.
Orlando
Field size
114 yds × 74 yds (soccer)

Wembley: 115 yd x 75 yd

So we can definitely cope with the size and produce decent stuff and play a pressing game
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Are you sure? if my d*ck was 1 yard (36 inches) longer 'my pressing game' aka favourite sexual position, would be totally different. And I would be really into black women with enormous b*ms.
 
Excellent way to start the season. While the first friendly of the year may or may not provide any meaningful information, I had a sneaking suspicion and hope we'd be on a par with more of the top teams, and last night's game went a certain distance to confirming that. After looking second best for the first ten to fifteen minutes, we looked comfortably the better side the rest of the night. Of the six goals scored, four were the result of defensive gaffes, but the two quality efforts were both ours. I was especially pleased to see how our attacking is coming along. I liked the variety of approaches used and the pressure they put on PSG. In the past I've criticized AVB ball: tapping the ball around the edge of the area until we lose it. Last night we seemed to move it around with a plan, and in a way that typically resulted in a reasonably good attempt at scoring.(EDIT--only four games in a row we've scored three.) Eriksen was particularly superb, but most of our players looked fairly deft in their end.

On the negative side, both KWP and Carter Vickers went AWOL for one goal, while CCV went for an interception on the other, missed, and sent Cavani in in goal. I agree we've got nothing resembling an adequate backup to Kane and Eriksen, but they're such brilliant players their shoes will be hard to fill in any case. Our idiotic ESPN announcer claimed that Eriksen was where we needed an upgrade to someone Barca might be interested in. So I got to thinking who is Barca level in the PL. Hazard? Probably, but may be a bit of a one trick pony. Kane and Kante? May be the best bets, but neither is in any way tested outside the PL. Sanchez? Already found wanting. Coutinho? Good, but not as good as Eriksen. Eriksen? Might be the player who could adjust best and quickest to being in Barca's side. He's been the most underrated player in the PL for a couple of years now, taking that role over from Cazorla, and for the same reason: those two were/are the threads that knit their teams together.

Anyway, it's nice to win one of these friendlies against big teams from other leagues, and you couldn't have asked for a more entertaining game. The experiment moves on.
 
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