All of this weekend’s pre-season friendlies – and what to look out for
The pre-season friendlies proceed this weekend, with a minimum of 9 matches happening involving the Premier League golf equipment.
There could also be others, too, as some sides preserve particulars of their warm-up matches – sometimes of the behind-closed-doors selection – quiet.
We noticed this final weekend with Brighton and Hove Albion, Burnley and Newcastle United.
Listed here are all of the declared friendlies to date:
| Match | Date | Kick-off time (BST) |
|---|---|---|
| Burnley v Wolverhampton Wanderers | Saturday 19 July | n/a |
| Bournemouth v Bristol Metropolis | Saturday 19 July | 1pm |
| Leeds United v Manchester United | Saturday 19 July | 2pm |
| Grasshoppers v West Ham United | Saturday 19 July | 2pm |
| Celtic v Newcastle United | Saturday 19 July | 3pm |
| Studying v Tottenham Hotspur | Saturday 19 July | 3pm |
| Blackburn Rovers v Everton | Saturday 19 July | 3pm |
| Hansa Rostock v Aston Villa | Saturday 19 July | 3pm |
| Sevilla v Sunderland | Saturday 19 July | 8pm |
Occasions come from every membership’s official web site
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
Matheus Cunha might make his Manchester United bow right now because the Crimson Devils meet their outdated rivals, Leeds United, in Stockholm.
How a lot he eats into Bruno Fernandes‘ set-piece duties shall be one thing value monitoring as pre-season goes on.
Speaking of Sweden, there’s probability we’ll see Anthony Elanga making his Newcastle United debut alongside compatriot Alexander Isak. The Magpies are in Glasgow to fulfill Celtic.
In the present day is the primary match that Thomas Frank takes cost of Tottenham Hotspur, too.
The previous Brentford boss held his first presser as Spurs boss on Thursday, and urged his crew to assault – not that they had been used to doing something totally different beneath his predecessor.
“Yeah, I’m very, very clear in all of the ideas I’ve in, I can say, each section of the sport. What I’ll prefer to see from the crew and the gamers is I would like us to be courageous. I would like us to be very aggressive, and I wish to assault. I feel courageous is totally linked in ‘to dare is to do’. For those who’re not courageous, it’s very, very troublesome to attain something.” – Thomas Frank
Mohammed Kudus might make his Lilywhites debut: will he be on the precise, on the left or within the center?
James Maddison and Dejan Kulusevski stay out for Spurs however the former is a minimum of partly again in coaching.
Kudus’s outdated membership, West Ham United, start their pre-season marketing campaign in Switzerland.
Aston Villa, Bournemouth, Everton and Sunderland every contest their second friendlies, in the meantime.
They’re all prone to have stronger squads this week, with every membership’s internationals belatedly again in coaching following prolonged breaks.
