Our pre-season overall has been very impressive, unbeaten in 8, a couple of mini-routs against Rangers & Valerenga, and some good performances from the new lads, most notably Ngog.
The one thing that has concerned me slightly though is how we've reacted after scoring. Last night after Voronin got his goal we switched off & let Lazio come at us, with only an offside decision keeping our victory intact. Against Lucerne we conceded an equaliser 2 minutes after scoring, and Wisla Krakow's equaliser came just 6 minutes after we'd scored. Also in one of our other games (can't recall which one) I remember the opposition going very close just after we'd scored.
I'm hoping this is just down to the rustiness of pre-season and the fact that they weren't competitive games, but it's certainly worrying that we seem to be taking our eye off the ball as soon as we get a goal. I'm sure Rafa will have noticed the same thing & it's something he will be drilling the players on, but let's hope we don't carry this trend into the new season.
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