“I think the opportunity to start in the Premier League against Roberto Martinez is a little bit lovely”, said Flores, who takes charge of his first competitive match since he replaced Slavisa Jokanovic as Watford boss in June. “We talk many times about the players we need to collaborate and we are confident with this conference of our knowledge”. For us he understands perfectly the culture of the Premier League, the culture of the teams, the citizens in England.
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Veteran team Everton FC is set to face newcomer Watford FC in the opening day of the 2015-2016 Premier League season on Saturday, August 8.
While the Hornets are excited to be back in the mainstream, the Toffees are also keen on winning their first game in months.
Gerard Deulofeu and Romelu Lukaku are nursing hamstring problems and will undergo late fitness tests, but Steven Pienaar and Muhamed Besic definitely will definitely miss out.
“From the manager to the amount of players they have brought in, with really strong experience at the highest level, this is a new group clearly but straight away you are going to see a team that know what they are trying to do”. However, beneath Flores it’s wanting ever extra possible that Watford will play with one striker, which signifies that a substantial quantity of their prolificacy will probably be resigned to the bench.
The Premier League newcomers have made 10 summer signings from seven countries and their squad contains 22 different nationalities.
Ten of his new recruits this summer have arrived from France, Greece, Holland, Austria, Lithuania, Switzerland and Spain, to form one of the game’s most diverse squads.
“Flores has become a very experienced manager and I don’t think he’ll find the British game anything of a surprise to him”.
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Watford will be without suspended defender Miguel Britos while new goalkeeper Giedrius Arlauskis is also banned.
