Notable players missing through injury, still being at the WC or given a few days off in Nunez’s case.
Ideally it would be a run out, nothing spectacular, ease the lads back into things… but knowing us we’ll come flying out of the traps and try to win it 7-0. As long as there are no injuries, that’s fine with me.
Predicted lineup
Carvalho Firmino Salah
Jones Thiago Elliott
Robbo Gomez Matip Ramsay
Kelleher
Jones is a maybe for the first mid-season game, as he’s been training apart from the rest of the squad.
Expect Doak and Bajcetic to get some decent minutes as they’ve been in the training photos a fair bit.
In terms of date, probably chose one that does not have a world cup match and in terms of timing, with the weather, they probably wanted to play only in the evening so any time after 6pm Dubai time made sense so unfortunately it would always clash with the women match if by that measure.