Pre-Season Games Will Be Tough Enough - Mowbray

Last updated : 03 July 2015 By Covsupport News Service

Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray has said that the four pre-season games, City have so far announced will be tough fixtures.

The City boss told the Coventry Telegraph's Andy Turner about the pre-seasons games away to Nuneaton, Luton, Cambridge and Oxford: "The games we have got so far are going to be tough enough. The Oxford game will be very competitive and Luton will be the same.

“Sometimes when you play Conference teams or whoever they are OK and you are just hoping in those games you have the ball.

“Nuneaton, for instance on the 11th, I’m hoping that we can go and play the shape we want to play and move the ball around and try to bed things in.

With total respect to Nuneaton I hope it’s not a game where we’re on the back foot having to defend all the time and then play on the counter attack.

“But in some games where you have better placed opposition you do have to accept that you haven’t got the ball for periods. It doesn’t really matter. If we are playing lesser teams we’ll just keep working on our shape and being in possession and if we are playing tough teams like we would in Ireland then there will be spells when we’ll work on our organisation and being out of possession.

“What you are looking for is a good run out with a good, physical contest. There are no points to be lost in pre-season. It’s the games in August that matter and we have to make sure we’re ready for those.”

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