Pre-Season 23/24

Vieira has been pretty good beyond that one terrible free kick.

Eddie totally invisible.

Kiwior on the ball a lot in the Zinny role, playing it very safe with almost every pass just rolled out to the wing.

Saliba still a beast.

Most of our good stuff has come down the right.

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Saliba’s composure under pressure is simply world class. Glad to have him back.

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Saka getting kicked as usual.

Interesting to see him coming in so deep, very much like Jesus and Laca.
At one point he almost was 4th deepest outfield player aside White, Saliba, Habeiel and Partey.

Hope to see Balogun leading the line in the 2nd half.

Biggest takeaway from this for me is how much our depth improved. Last year we had bums like Lokonga starting the game and it wasn’t till Jesus came on that the team kicked on. This was actually the pattern in almost all preseason games actually. The shit guys were stinking the place up and then when our starters were on we were playing liquid football.

We’re now playing a pretty strong side and we still have Havertz, Jesus, Jorginho and others on the bench. Martinelli, Odegaard, Zinchenko not involved. Rice and Timber to also join.

Pretty pleased.

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I wonder whether we’ll see the entire first XI changed or close to it.

Pretty exciting opportunity for Nwaneri and Lewis-Skelly if they get 45 minutes in a side with a lot of regulars like Jesus, Jorginho, Havertz, Balogun, Tierney, etc.

I’d like to take a look at Trusty and Walters too. One of those guys could be a candidate for a last man in the squad type role.

play safe…

I don’t want to see anymore freak injury for this warmup ā€œmatchā€.

if the players (new or returning) are not ready, just don’t play. We have to months to prepare for the new season.

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Havertz watch!

Both Cedric and Tierney on. :eyes:

Arteta bringing on all the big guns

Jesus on the flanks…

Trossard up top

Can’t believe he’s playing him as a striker :rofl:

wild dreams, right?

It looks like Trossard is up top but hard to work out. Jesus deffo on the right though

ahh yes you’re right! Will be interesting to see how this works.

still can’t believe they try to make people pay for friendlies even if you’re a member.

cba with some potato stream for saka to rip nurnberg apart

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That better have not been Vieira who slipped just then…

Can’t believe its 2023 and I’m still watching Cedric. Hopefully the last time…

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Looks pretty fluid tbh. Sometimes Trossard is dropping deep and Havertz takes up the central position upfront