Glasner noted: “For us it’s important, because fortunately we lost one friendly game: the last one we’d planned on 9th August, but now we play the Community Shield at Wembley!
“We always want that every single player has played once over 90 minutes in pre-season, to be ready for the start, and that’s why we said ‘we’ll play Mainz two times, each 60 minutes’, so also having a good physical load, and of course like we did [against Crawley]… we’ll take it as a training session.
“Then we play Augsburg, with two games so that everybody can have 90 minutes, so of course we have to take care in the training sessions, but I think it’s important that every player has the confidence that he’s able to play over the full time – and then we’re looking forward to the Community Shield.”
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