Pre-Season games 2023-24

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  • IronHerbIronHerb
    That'll be the squad then. 😉
  • LukerzLukerz
    Ex seems to suggest first team players involved in Australia won’t be involved today.
  • HamstewHamstew
    So who's playing upfront?
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    Hamstew said:

    So who's playing upfront?

    Cornet or Marshall, presumably.

    Moyes did suggest that might be Cornet's best position, so I think it'll be him with Benrahma and Kodua either side.
  • HamstewHamstew
    I wonder if Mubama will play though.
  • Ravel49Ravel49
    OldCastleSwift said:

    Hamstew said:

    So who's playing upfront?

    Cornet or Marshall, presumably.

    Moyes did suggest that might be Cornet's best position, so I think it'll be him with Benrahma and Kodua either side.
    Ah the Marko Arnautović conversion begins..
  • HamstewHamstew
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  • LukerzLukerz
    edited July 2023
    Areola
    Coufal - Kehrer - Aguerd - Scarles
    Swyer - Soucek - Orford - Benrahma
    Marshall - Cornet

    Looks like…
  • LukerzLukerz
    1-0, Cornet
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Lukerz said:

    1-0, Cornet

    "He'll be like a new signing" 😂🤣😂

    1-1 now.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    2-1, Mubama 😊
  • LukerzLukerz
    The way he’s going he has a good chance of starting at Bournemouth.
  • nychammer66nychammer66
    edited July 2023
    Lukerz said:

    The way he’s going he has a good chance of starting at Bournemouth.

    He’ll be like a new signing 😀😀😀
    That’s two already!
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    2-2.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    edited July 2023
    This game has been a complete waste of time. Our entire first team have barely featured so they’ll have 2 games before the season starts. Most of our team will have played about 200 minutes before the 12th.
    Can’t see the point of playing our youth team for the major part.
  • LukerzLukerz
    They started?
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    About 5 played 45 minutes, that’s their first minutes so maybe another 180.
  • LukerzLukerz
    But had it not been played, they’d have 45 mins less?
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Point I was making was some of those who went to Australia could have played 45 minutes too. It wouldn’t have been too much for them. Most of them only played two 45 minute sessions out there.
    Every year we say that pre season is all about fitness not results but that comes from playing games. I don’t know but I reckon we will be behind previous seasons match fitness levels when we kick off on the 12th.
  • LukerzLukerz
    We played 7 pre season games before the 2021/22 season, ended 7th, made a fantastic start when we were 4th in November. We’re playing 6 this time. That one game short may be huge, but also we ended the season later than others.
  • LukerzLukerz
    What’s Areola doing for the first goal 😂 (& Soucek for that matter)
  • HamstewHamstew
    Getting it out of their systems hopefully
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Lukerz said:

    We played 7 pre season games before the 2021/22 season, ended 7th, made a fantastic start when we were 4th in November. We’re playing 6 this time. That one game short may be huge, but also we ended the season later than others.

    But it's the nature of the games we've played. I know a lot of it is out of our hands, with the short summer break due to the late finish to the regular season due to the World Cup, then the ECL final, then internationals, the U21s Euros, whatever competition Antonio has only just finished playing in, all that adds up to a really messy summer.

    However, throwing in a trip to Australia which only half our first team went on and who were all then not available for today's fixture just feels like we're going into the remaining two friendlies and the start of the PL hugely undercooked.
  • HamstewHamstew
    Poor old Dec is getting pelters from the Arsenal fans.
  • LukerzLukerz
    If they plan on playing him as a specialist DM number 6, he is going to stagnate there as a player. Havertz & Odegaard next to him he was run ragged.
  • OutcastLondonerOutcastLondoner
    Oh well, he signed up for this.
  • LukerzLukerz
    I’m sure he’ll be fine longer term, but it just shows the slight tweak from the constant unconditional love from us to the sceptical fans you need to win over. We know what Rice does. He’s played one game, looked a little rusty, Arsenal fans wonder what he offers for £100m.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    buffy
    "However, throwing in a trip to Australia which only half our first team went on and who were all then not available for today's fixture just feels like we're going into the remaining two friendlies and the start of the PL hugely undercooked."

    But they would have got more out of playing Spurs and Perth than they would against the Daggers.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    It's more about the continuity of training and absorption of internationals coming back in later in preseason into the squad; what we've done has led to a very disjointed preseason imo.
  • Ravel49Ravel49
    Could have been worse

    ‘The pre-season friendly between Tottenham and Leicester in Bangkok was called off due to a waterlogged pitch after torrential rain during the warm-ups.’
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