NFR: Huddersfield 3 - 1 Lyon

[FulhamKC]

Hmmm. Wonder what this tells us.

[aaronmcguigan]

Tells you that you can't compare friendly results .  Also that Ben Hamer played a blinder

[mkras99]

Nothing.  Absolutely nothing. 

[Andy S]

The thing is it tells Huddersfield nothing as well

[rogerpbackinMidEastUS]

I'd like to see the Lyon team

[SWSixer]

I'd like to see the Lyon team

30  Mathieu Gorgelin

35  Maxence Caqueret
4  Rafael
6  Marcelo
23  Kenny Tete

25  Christopher Martins Pereira
24  Pape Diop
28  Tanguy Ndombele

11  Memphis Depay
27  Maxwel Cornet
10  Bertrand Traoré


Looks a fairly strong Lyon lineup (but I'm certainly no expert).
9 changes in the 2nd half.

Pretty hard to read into unless you've seen both games in full.

[RaySmith]

My dad used to tell me that friendlies  didn't mean anything - and that was over fifty years ago.

[hovewhite]

Friendlies are fitness workouts.

[sunburywhite]

They had someone called Pape Diop??

[Carborundum]

The annual opportunity to use the phrase "notoriously unreliable guide"

[Tabby]

And Brighton drew against Portsmouth, they're clearly set for mid table League 1 play.

[MJG]

Huddersfield made a who load of subs at HT, Lyon made a load in a five minute period roughly on the hour mark after which Huddersfield scored scored twice.
Now I don't know either team well enough to say who was stronger at what time, but similar to our game, it was close until a load of changes made, which as we know disrupts a game.
So not a lot to read into either game.

[ron]

Some bloke in a pub told me that friendlies don't mean a thing.....in fact, his mate told him that losing them is good for morale...

No, not a thing. Definitely. I'll be telling them all the same now in my boozer later tonight.....

[Nero]

Like to see the Huddersfield team, did they put out their youth team in the second half?

[Lighthouse]

If we won all the pre season games but lost the opening game in the league. Then would we care how good our pre season had been?

[MJG]

If we won all the pre season games but lost the opening game in the league. Then would we care how good our pre season had been?

we have  had great pre seasons which led to a poor season and poor pre seasons which led to a good season and most were just average in both respects.
The real business starts on the first day of the league season, anyone who reads much into any friendly result needs to get a bit of perspective on the game.

[Woolly Mammoth]

Friendlies are a good work out, a competitive friendly without the pressure of points at stake etc.
Suits both clubs, especially against decent opponents.
An opportunity on the field play for players to shake off the cobwebs and rust. Get their first touch back, and improve their timing as well as match fitness.
Also an opportunity for Managers and Coaches to polish up their game management skills to attempt to outwit your opponents.
All good stuff, yes of course we would like to win the match, and of course play well whilst trying to win it.
Trying out systems of play without ending up losing anything but a friendly match.
Of course I do not like losing, not even the toss. but it's all in a good cause, and cannot be compared.
I would imagine that our lineup v Crystal Palace would be different by some distance from our line up v Lyon. As well as our performance.

[nose returns]

friendlies mean very little. I stopped going to them years ago.
managers try stuff and mix and match so you never know.

however I did see the lyon game (ours) and i was not pretty, even for a friendly. I think the inability to pass to each other was most disturbing.

However, does it mean we are destined for a dreadful season, who knows. we had poor results last season and got promoted. If huddersfield beat lyon and we didn't i would not draw a conclusion of any significance.

[Woolly Mammoth]

however I did see the lyon game (ours) and i was not pretty, even for a friendly.

When I was knee high to a grasshopper, my mate set me up with a blind date, as he wanted to go out with her friend.
The girl he set me up with was not very pretty either, the last time I had seen a face like hers, they were nailing it down in a coffin.
In fact I had to ask her how much she charged for haunting a house.
But after that unfortunate episode it did not effect my confidence or relationship with women.
I still couldn't pull any.

[ron]

however I did see the lyon game (ours) and i was not pretty, even for a friendly.

When I was knee high to a grasshopper, my mate set me up with a blind date, as he wanted to go out with her friend.
The girl he set me up with was not very pretty either, the last time I had seen a face like hers, they were nailing it down in a coffin.
In fact I had to ask her how much she charged for haunting a house.
But after that unfortunate episode it did not effect my confidence or relationship with women.
I still couldn't pull any.

Did the unfortunate lady not go on to have a very successful career in a yogurt factory...looking at the milk...?