[Training: light. Konaté: rested. Sakho: rested. Chilwell: rested. Kovačić: rested. Pato: rested.]
Rebecca had the squad in three groups. Group one (Atlético starters) were on bikes and in the pool and not on the grass. Group two (yesterday's bench) were doing a possession box at half pace. Group three (the academy lads not on loan) were running an under-twenty-three friendly behind the main pitch.
Sarah was on the touchline with her laptop and a flask of tea.
"Huddersfield in a four-five-one," she said as I walked up. "Wagner has not changed it in three months. Mounié up top alone, Pritchard at ten dropping in. They will sit. They will run. They will not press."
"Lössl?"
"Good distribution. Sweeps his line. Long throw from Schindler is their main set-piece weapon. Bray's already got it on the board."
"Mounié against?"
"Whoever you put on him will win the air and lose the foot race. He's a problem for one defender. Not two."
"Right."
"You're sitting Mama and Ibu."
"Yeah."
