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Photos and Video from Alabama’s First Practice of Tennessee Week
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Beneath sunny skies with temperatures hovering within the high-70s Fahrenheit, Alabama soccer carried out its first follow of the week on Tuesday forward of the crew’s street journey to face No. 6 Tennessee.
The crew practiced for 2 hours outdoor on the Thomas-Drew Apply Fields, sporting helmets and shorts.
On Monday, head coach Nick Saban hosted his first press convention of the week forward of the crew’s preparations for the Volunteers. In his press convention, Saban outlined the Crimson Tide’s subsequent opponent.
“We’re gonna play a extremely good Tennessee crew,” Saban stated. “This recreation means so much to lots of people in Alabama. It is type of a rivalry recreation, and it is all the time been an essential recreation for us. Tennessee’s received an excellent crew. They’re undefeated. Josh [Heupel] has carried out a extremely, actually good job. They’re most likely one of the vital explosive offenses if not essentially the most explosive offense within the nation. They received actually good broad receivers. 4 guys have a lot of manufacturing. They have two actually good operating backs, a lot of manufacturing. The quarterback, [Hendon] Hooker has actually carried out a pleasant job of executing their offense. He is one of many main go effectivity guys within the nation in addition to has the flexibility to increase performs and make performs along with his toes. He is an excellent athlete all the best way round and has had an excellent 12 months. Their protection is among the prime defensive groups, particularly when it comes to creating detrimental performs and making individuals troublesome for him to attain. Seventeen factors a recreation is admittedly good and one of many tops and the SEC and so they’re all the time actually strong with their specialists on particular crew.
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“So it is a actually, actually good crew, an actual problem for us. And our precedence must be we received to get proper ourselves in order that we do a greater job of placing ourselves ready of getting an opportunity to achieve success and after we do this, we received to benefit from it.”
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