The Thomas Frank era kicks-off at Reading on Saturday (3pm) and our Head Coach has told us what he’s looking for in our first pre-season action against the League One side.
First up, Thomas explained that we’ll put out two 11s, playing 45 minutes each - and he reported in his pre-match press conference that both Heung-Min Son and Cuti Romero will be involved.
Speaking to us on Friday afternoon, Thomas said: “We will look, first of all, for a good performance, with two even teams out there, playing 45-45, and there be runs after. It's been a tough week for them, so this will be another. It will be the first 45 minutes into the legs, the system, the principles. The perfect thing is a good performance where we’re ticking a lot of those principles we try to integrate.”
Friday represented day 14 of pre-season, and with less than a month before we take on PSG in the UEFA Super Cup (13 August, 8pm) quickly followed by our Premier League opener at home to Burnley (16 August, 3pm), Thomas was asked what information he and his coaching team were getting into the players in these first weeks together.
“We like to get all our principles into them, all phases of the game - that's everything from defending the box to attacking the box,” he said. “We need to be really good in both boxes to try to achieve something. That also goes with the middle pressure, phase two, all the principles we try to get in - of course, there's a lot of information."
Watch | Thomas' first press conference