My takes from the game.

Overall the team look a lot fitter than they did at the start of last season and far more drilled in passing.

A good amount of energy and commitment and playing with some intensity.

Unlucky not to win and Sevilla come across as quite a dirty team. Many sinical fouls in a friendly....

Eze is a super player and I really hope Parish can wangle some magic to keep him but it'd be hard after this season to keep either of Eze or Olise.

Both goals were very good.

I think the team looks pretty strong with the one usual issue of Edouard being inept at being useful but at least he ran some... little effort or trickery at controlling the ball to score and 1 gifted header went... to the side.

The rest of the team looked good and Lerma wasn't too bad. Clyne looked faster than he did last season(not especially hard but still good.)

The only other head scratcher was that Roy has gone back (true to form) of forgetting he has some subs that might need some game time.

The team could do with a good striker and I was sad not to see Ahameda play as I thought he deserved some minutes.

I think if the team from today is anything to go by, we will at least start the prem strongly. May have to hope for minimal injuries though.

If you look at what he said in his pre-match, it was deliberate so as to get 90 minutes in the legs of the eleven he sees as probably his best side.

There will probably be subs used against Lyon, though.

If you look at what he said in his pre-match, it was deliberate so as to get 90 minutes in the legs of the eleven he sees as probably his best side.

There will probably be subs used against Lyon, though.

i can see the logic of getting a hard 90 minutes out of his 'best' X1 2 weeks before the start of the season.

However, against Lyon i would hope Ahameda and maybe JRS get at least a 30 minutes run out as they are probably the 2 closest to a starting position, or at least an impact sub role.

Also Tayo at LB. He seems to be the forgotten man these days. It appears he's not pushed on after a decent breakthrough a couple of seasons ago. We really need the competition so hopefully he's had a good pre-season and is back to his best.

I mentioned elsewhere that when I see Edouard play I think, surely Mateta is better than that, only to see Mateta play and think surely Edouard is better...and so it goes on in circles!