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Great to see Walcott back and Devine starting for the U23s.
Win puts us top.
Surprised no Scarlett. A place on the bench Monday maybe?
Delighted to see he's out on loan - just not sure how high level this one is ?!
I think the fact he's a UK-US dual citizen may have played into this. A few other observations:
Their no1 has 66 caps for Peru so he may not play many games.
MLS is an odd league. It looks like the Championship played at 1.5x speed. Good thing is that the style is quite British- ie lots of crosses, and keepers aren't mollycoddled like they are on the continent.
It's also a brutal schedule. Orlando will play away in places like Montreal, Toronto, Boston, NYCx2 (at least - maybe Vancouver and LA x2 depending on the fixture computer) which have very different climates to south Florida. Clubs are also only allowed to charter planes for 4 journeys a year so there's lots of waiting around for connecting flights.
Standards of physical fitness is generally extremely high - the yanks take their sports seriously.
Having read all that I don't think that makes the loan decision any clearer - certainly one to keep an eye on.
Great to see Walcott back and Devine starting for the U23s.
Win puts us top.
What Mouhino said :In the press conference today Jose basically said the talented youth players are all in the 16 years old group and there is nobody aged 18 or 19 that he fancies.
This on YouTube by any chance?Spurs u18's play Woolwich away at 11 am on Saturday (Edit - late change to 12.00).
Scarlett likely to start given he was not in u23 squad.
Possible line up :
Lo-Tutala (c),
Lusala, Muir, Paskotši, Hackett,
Matthew Craig, Michael Craig,
Whittaker, Mundle, Santiago,
Scarlett.
Others who may be in squad : Hayton, Cesay, Casanova, Robson, John, Whittaker Mathurin. Donley.
MLS runs March - December and this summer there is a Copa America coming up, and there will be world cup qualifiers spread out through the year. Gallese is Peru's number 1 so he is going to be off on international duty quite a bit.Strange loan if they have a 30 year old Peru international GK as sitting on a bench all the time cannot be the game plan for him - hope it means Orlando want some tough opposition for him.
Austin has looked good for Spurs u23's and played all the time at Viborg (Danish second league) on loan for half a season, so hoping he shows that and gets plenty of playing time.
Hopefully he comes back able to compete for 2nd or 3rd GK place at Spurs