Just watched the first half from last night. Nothing to worry about there.

Thought we looked pretty decent. Clearly several of the players are a bit leggy after all the hard core fitness work they have been doing. Snod and Whittaker in particular looked knackered from about 10 minutes onwards (the latter mainly just kicking the ball randomly off the pitch every time he got it). However Redmond looked good and in spells when we upped the tempo and Wes, Howson, Fox and Redmond combined it was quite encouraging. Bolt on our proper keeper and defence plus Fer and we will be fine. Also very difficult on a fast bouncy pitch (which also seemed quite small/congested) against opponents who are physical and fully match fit.

Posted By: Jim, Jul 25, 11:10:33