By Since66
July 20 2008

A very strong reserve squad were involved in the defeat at Hampton and Richmond yesterday. All in all 20 players were used and coach Brendan Rodgers was pleased with the progress that the squad has made despite the 1-0 defeat. Rogers said, "The first-half we were very good. We were good in possession, had penetration and had good speed to our game. The chances came but we missed the goals.

"In the second-half, those coming on found it difficult to get going in the first 10 minutes and during that period we conceded with what was the opponents only chance of the game.

"After that we continued to dominate but it didn't really look like we would score.

"However it was a very worthwhile exercise. We have been training only two weeks, our movement and combination is improving every game but we need to do more work definisively.

"The number one objective is to make sure there are no injuiries and our fitness levels improve game-by-game and that was certainly achieved."

Rodgers practically used two teams for each half.

First-half team:

Rhys Taylor, Nana Ofori-Twumasi, Carl Magnay, Jeffrey Bruma, Patrick Van Aanholt, Liam Bridcutt, Jacob Mellis, Daniel Philliskirk, Miroslav Stoch, Morten Nielsen, Lee Saywer.

Second-Half team:

Rhys Taylor (Niclas Heimann 70), Shaun Cummings, Liam Bridcutt, Michael Mancienne, Patrick Van Aanholt (Tom Taiwo 65), Michael Woods, Sergio Tejera, Ricardo Fernandes, Fabio Ferreira, Morten Nielsen (Jacopo Sala 65), Miroslav Stoch.

Next Saturday 26th July, the reserves travel to Plainmoor to take on Helen Chamberlain's Torquay United. After that the reserves travel to Slovenia to play Hadjuk Split before completing their pre-season with a home and away double against Man Utd reserves.

Perennial winners of the London Masters, a Chelsea old boy team crashed out of the competition last night to eventual winners West Ham. The squad included Tore Andre Flo for the first time.

Squad:

Alan Judge, David Lee (c), Ken Monkou, Peter Rhoades Brown, Gareth Hall, Kevin McAllister, Darren Barnard and Tore Andre Flo.

By Hampton & Richmond & Chelsea out of Masters

Discussion started by 50 Years Over 100 Years , 20/07/2008 12:40

50 Years Over 100 Years
20/07/2008 12:40

By Hampton & Richmond & Chelsea out of Masters

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dixon9
20/07/2008 18:33

I understand we played well though and put on most of the pressure.

No Kakuta or Di Santo playing - Wonder if they will travel to China with the first team?




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"It is born out of hypocrisy and fundamental insecurity. There have been two kids on the block for the past 12 years. Suddenly, there is a third and that one is threatening to be more successful than the others and they don’t like it." P Kenyon.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2008:07:20:20:38:36 by dixon9.

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Dave1
21/07/2008 12:31

I was at the masters and the squad looked one tournament too far. west hame were the best team overall and i would highly reccomend going to next years tournament, it is a good laugh

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