Pre-season Friendlies Match Thread

[miss villa]

A much harder game than last night. Clearly they devised a cunning strategy to make sure Marc Albrighton is barely getting a lookin. Brad is totally exposed.

[pauliewalnuts]

Hope we bring our first XI on in the 2nd half.

I hope they don't bring theirs on.

[Holtenderinthesky]

Hope we bring our first XI on in the 2nd half.

I don't know how to break this awful news to you but.....this may well be it, close to it anyway.

[Dave Cooper please]

If it wasn't just a pre-season knockabout, this would be embarrassing.
As it is, it just shows how a well drilled team who can pass and move will nearly always win over a team with no creativity in midfield.

[Toronto Villa]

They are a different class to us to be honest. I know this is a friendly tournament but does anyone really think we could hold our own in the champions league if we had qualified?

something tells me Spurs are about to find out the same thing

[Matt Collins]

and why 4-4-2 is dead

[curiousorange]

We can't be that bad, the saviour that is Luke Young is playing...

[hawkeye]

i cant believe some of the negative comments on here

[cdbearsfan]

I like the Coventry goalkeeper, have forgotten his name though. We could keep up our tradition of buying Coventry players and get him for about £3 million I reckon.

Kieron Westwood is it?

That's him cheers.

[Goldie.7]

We are shit ma lord, we are shit.

Knock it out on the wing ma lord
Then try to cross it in ma lord
Oh nobody's there ma lord
same old shit ma lord.................

[pauliewalnuts]

If it wasn't just a pre-season knockabout, this would be embarrassing.
As it is, it just shows how a well drilled team who can pass and move will nearly always win over a team with no creativity in midfield.

It is just preseason, so has to be taken with a pinch of salt, but we are doing "our thing" that we do in the season proper. Maybe not as well as we do it when we're up to scratch training wise, but that's the way we play.

Like you said, passing and movement will win out more times than not.

[Brend'Watkins]

If it wasn't just a pre-season knockabout, this would be embarrassing.
As it is, it just shows how a well drilled team who can pass and move will nearly always win over a team with no creativity in midfield.

All Sidwell has done is pass the ball backwards.  There is nothing coming from the midfield.

[curiousorange]

i cant believe some of the negative comments on here

Don't worry, we'll change our tune when Benfica implode.

[JJ-AV]

Losing a friendly with alot of our first team missing against a side way better than us.

Poor performance but no big deal.

[Dave Cooper please]

I thought Luke had a decent half. he certainly had a lot to do as our midfield have done fuck all to stop them attacking.