That's encouraging. Sounds like he may be more likely to succeed than Lokilo - who looked promising in last year's pre-season but is a couple of years older

I thought the first team players looked decent. The reserves, who played first half, looked like they were nervous on the ball and had not played together very often: which, to be fair, they probably had not done.

Kirby looked ok, but there was some shocking passing and a lack of movement from the reserve and youth players. We looked very static in the first half. When the first teamers came on from around 60 minutes on, the team looked much more fluid.

Also, I hope Roy gets Benteke to work harder, as it looks like the team are actively trying to play to his strengths. If they can do that, and he puts more of a shift in, I think he would do better than last year, which is not saying much.

Sorloth looked useful.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

they both played in 2nd half

Cheers for that, Michael!

Distribution very good I thought, kicks the ball a long way which will be an asset with Wilf up top. Didn't come for many crosses but maybe lack of English didn't help or having Jach in front of him (who I thought was poor) VG only played 1st half. Hope this helps.

Sorry about that