The Tottenham Hotspur squad returned from their holidays to head back into the doors of Hotspur Way on Saturday for the start of pre-season training.
Tottenham will play their first pre-season friendly of the summer this Saturday, with a behind-closed-door fixture scheduled against Cambridge United.
The majority of the Tottenham squad reported for pre-season training over the weekend and they were put through various tests before having their first taste of training on the grass on Sunday.
Spurs are now set to move into the next phase of pre-season development, with Ange Postecoglou‘s side scheduling a friendly against Cambridge, who will travel to Hotspur Way this Saturday.
It will be the first match that new signings Archie Gray and Lucas Bergvall could play for the Lilywhties as they look to get up to speed with Ange’s high-intensity approach.
Football.London point out that behind-closed-doors friendlies are often more fragmented than official ones, with some games being split into three 30-minute segments rather than two halves to give various players different amounts of minutes.
The report explains that Cambridge will offer a big fitness test to the Spurs players, with the League One side having begun their pre-season a week earlier.
Tottenham will then face Hearts in Scotland on Wednesday, July 17th and QPR at Loftus Road on Saturday, July 20th and will then jet off for their fixtures in Japan and South Korea before returning to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to take on Bayern Munich on Saturday, August 10th.
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While we usually do not see a friendly being arranged so soon into pre-season, we know that Ange prefers high-intensity ball work rather than fitness and endurance drills, which is why this does not come as a surprise.
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