Preseason 2021/22

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It's hard to improve on how you want your team to be on the pitch when you face nothing but serie d and c feeders
I agree. Take last summer friendlies for example. We had only faced Serie B and serie C teams, Conte experimented with 3-4-1-2 and Bastoni in the middle of back 3 and everything looked amazing. But in the first match of the season we realized this was far from the reality. You need competitive friendlies to see where you stand as a team.
 

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At this point of the preseason, it really doesn't matter who we are playing against. They are just getting back to fitness at this point, some tactical things are at the table for sure but nothing serious which would require some real opponents.

Maybe in two weeks serious opponents makes more sense or makes some difference. Serie A starts in 4 weeks.
 

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They should at least stream the games on YouTube. It can't be that difficult
 

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They should at least stream the games on YouTube. It can't be that difficult
Last time we did that, the stream literally got taken down for copyright infringement. The perfect metaphor for the club’s current situation.
 

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When is our next pre-season game? Anything announced officially?
 

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Why did the club first schedule only to pull out from the cup in USA?
 

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Yeah, I don't know what's up with the actual video content, I remember previous years, there was day to day training videos, inter tv was running full steam, we had recap of every day, now it just feels so bare-boned, with zero enthusiasm. Don't know if it's coz of covid, or we really decided to save money on all of this.

Also, our long term photographer claudio villa is no longer with the team for whatever reason.
Do you follow Claudio, he have been busy taking pictures of Italia NT.

 
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Why did the club first schedule only to pull out from the cup in USA?

COVID cases started to rise in Florida. Also Arsenal pulled out first (because there were COVID cases in their team/camp). Apparently that tournament will be next summer also and we decided with the organizers to be there next summer (to avoid cancellation fee).
 

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Do you follow Claudio, he have been busy taking pictures of Italia NT.

Yea I have him on insta, he posted his farewell a while ago, think even before euro started. What's the reason for the departure, I don't know.
 

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Apparently we're up 5-0, with a Satriano double, Darmian, Pinamonti, and, incredibly, a Gagliardini chip.

Gagliardini who, of course, immediately got injured afterwards and went off on a (Nicolo) stretcher.

Edit: Hmm, turns out the bit about the Gags injury was fake. My bad, apologies.
 
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Apparently we're up 5-0, with a Satriano double, Darmian, Pinamonti, and, incredibly, a Gagliardini chip.

Gagliardini who, of course, immediately got injured afterwards and went off on a (Nicolo) stretcher.
Lol of course right when reports come out for selling vecino gags gets a serious injury
 

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0:13 - Kolarov and his sprint :oops: it was beginning of the match and this old grandpa doesn't have energy to run back.

1:20 - step by step, Inzaghi is tranforming Gags into SMS
 

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From what i've seen from the highlights, Kolarov is done as a professional footballer, DiMarco gave like 100 assists, Handa is showing signs of regression, Gagsi is in white Pogba mode (mostly because this is his level, serie c)
 

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For those interested, the Florida Cup match between Everton vs Millonarios is on ESPN2 @ 6:00pm in the US instead of 8:00pm EDST because of Inter and Arsenal match was cancelled.
 

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so Everton isn't afraid of covid?
 
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