Here on Planet Swans we will bring you the news as we can for our Premier League opponents pre-season games so you can see how other teams are shaping up for the new season<\/p>\n
He had been linked with a move to the Swans in the summer and Odion Ighalo was on target for Watford in their pre-season friendly, scoring twice in a 4-0 win at St Albans.<\/p>\n
Another reported Swans target in Troy Deeney – fresh from his new contract – and Connor Smith completed the scoring as Watford started their pre-season campaign with an easy win.<\/p>\n
New Watford manager Quique Sanchez Flores said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is our first match and we have been training for a week so at the moment important thing is to take an impression of how the players can compete. <\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153But at the moment this kind of match is normal in the first weeks of pre-season.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
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Southampton were edged out in their first pre-season game, losing out to the odd goal in nine during an entertaining encounter.<\/p>\n
Two late goals though did give the scoreline some credibility with the Saints goals coming from Jay Rodriguez (2) and debut strikes from Juanmi and C\u00c3\u00a9dric Soares.<\/p>\n
As they prepare for their own return to Europe this year, Saints boss Ronald Koeman said
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nine goals. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not always good but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the most important at the moment,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The most important is we get minutes, and of course we had a lot of under-21 players.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You saw the difference between Leipzig and Southampton about the physical stage at the moment. They started three weeks earlier than us and they have already played two friendlies.”<\/p>\n
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West Brom were beaten in their opener by the Champions of Austria.<\/p>\n
The Baggies fielded 21 different players during the game with one of the Salzburg goals coming from Jonatan Soriano who the Swans tried to sign back in 2011.<\/p>\n
Adil Nabi grabbed a consolation goal for West Brom <\/p>\n
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