A win in the first friendly of the pre-season!
RBL romped to a 7-0 victory over FC Grimma to get their pre-season off to the perfect start. Benjamin Sesko andFabio Carvalho both scored on debut as they helped their side secure the comprehensive win.
While the Slovenian bagged a superb hat-trick, Fabio Carvalho opened his RBL account with a long distance strike. Rose’s men went in at half time with a 5-0 lead after an excellent all-round performance.
Marco Rose made wholesale changes at the break and utilised some young talent from the RBL youth set-up. The two second half goals were scored by Cenny Neumann and Winners Osawe of the U19s.
Line-up:
Blaswich (46′ Zingerle) – Novoa (64′ Mohammad), Köhler (46′ Böhm), Hennig, Mohammad (30′ Kühnhardt) – Kampl (64′ Osawe), Schierack (46′ Neumann) – Carvalho (64′ Kaufmann), Bayindir – Sesko (64′ Onuoah), Sachse (46′ Eduardo)
Goals:
1-0 Fabio Carvalho (14′), 2-0 Benjamin Sesko (23′), 3-0 Benjamin Sesko (26′), 4-0 Benjamin Sesko (36′), 5-0 own goal (38′), 6-0 Cenny Neumann and 7-0 Winners Osawe (88′)
Marco Rose on…
… the friendly:
- “We wanted to finish the first part of the pre-season, in which we have worked with lots of our younger players, with a friendly. We secured a win today and put in a good performance. We’ve had a good week of training overall.
I saw a team that wanted to play good football and we scored some lovely goals. Our runs and our pressing were also spot-on and the boys did their jobs really well. We had a good game overall.”
… Benjamin Sesko and Fabio Carvalho:
- “Benjamin Sesko scored his first goal. We signed him because he has enormous potential. He has a strong physique and he brings lots of energy. Now it’s down to us to work with him, develop him and make him even stronger.
Fabio Carvalho also got on the scoresheet and he showed us of his quality. He wants to play good football and he’s good on the ball.
The boys did well for us. They’ll be joined by the players who were away on international duty from tomorrow. That will encourage competition for places, which is exactly what we need.”
RBL’s first friendly of the pre-season
RBL will travel to Bruneck for their 8 day training campon Thursday. Whilst in Italy, they will play friendlies against Udinese, Ipswich Town and Werder Bremen.