Here’s our premier league preseason article for Sunday 21 July. We cover Liverpool, Spurs and Aston Villa. We include the lineups, scorers and some brief comments on players of interest plus a link to a relevant article for further information
premier league preseason – Sunday 21 July matches
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Aston Villa 1 Shrewsbury 0
Goal: Hogan
Aston Villa first XI: Steer, Guilbert, Taylor, Konsa, Mings, Bjarnason, Grealish, McGinn, Green, Jota, Davis
Aston Villa second XI: Steer, Bree, Targett, Chester, Hause, Hourihane, O’Hare, Lansbury, Hogan, Hepburn-Murphy, Wesley
Line up wise the first half was probably the stronger of the 2 but still a pretty mixed bunch.
£5.5m mid El Ghazi we’re monitoring but he was not playing in this. Apparently Villa are pursuing winger Trezeguet who would be competition for his place. The player rating of the local paper gave the best performances to £4.5m def Konsa, and £6.0m mids Grealish and Hourihane. New £6.0m fwd signing Wesley got an assist.
Here’s a link to a short youtube highlights video
Liverpool 1 Sevilla 2
Goal; Origi
Liverpool: Lonergan (Mignolet 46′); Alexander-Arnold (Hoever 46′), Phillips (Gomez 46′), Van Dijk (Lovren 46′), Robertson (Larouci 46′, Duncan 80′); Wijnaldum (Fabinho 46′), Henderson (Milner 46′), Oxlade-Chamberlain (Lewis 46′); Wilson (Jones 46′), Woodburn (Kent 46′), Origi (Brewster 46′)
Subs not used: Atherton, Matip
With the front 3 on post International rest as well as Alisson the lineup is a bit irrelevant. We’re trying to find out who Van Dijk’s £5.5m CB partner will be but that wasn’t helped here. In any case we’ll have the Community Shield v Man City the week before to assess that.
Here’s a link to a very good interview with Klopp plus video highlights. There’s also the this is anfield match report
Spurs 3 Juventus 2
Goals; Lamela, Moura, Kane
ratings from 90 mins
Starting XI: Gazzaniga (7); Georgiou (6), Tanganga (7), Alderweireld (7), Walker-Peters (8*); Skipp (7), Winks (7), Alli (6), Lamela (8), Son (7); Parrott (8).
Substitutes: Kane (8), Vertonghen (6), Foyth (6), Sissoko (7), Moura (7), Ndombele (8), Roles (7), White (6), Marsh (6).
A bit of a mixed lineup so little learned. With Trippier gone, Aurier on AFCON rest and £5.0m Foyth suspended for the first 2 games £5.0m Walker Peters performance, especially going forward, becomes a positive or a hindrance to £5.0m Aurier depending on how you look at it. Good performances by £7.5m Moura and £6.0m Lamela spice up the race for who will fill in for Son while he’s suspended for 2 games.
There’s a 90 min match report, a highlights video and an interesting squawka article to go with this
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