Daily Echo:

Mauricio Pellegino says he can see signs of progress from his side after their 2-2 draw with Brentford.

Charlie Austin scored twice in the space of eight minutes at Griffin Park to cancel out a first opener from the Championship side.

A Fraser Forster error towards the end of the game meant the pre-season friendly ended in a draw, but for Pellegrino the bigger picture is how his team are shaping up three weeks before the big Premier League kick-off.

He said: “It was a good game, for me good preparation because some players were playing 65-70 minutes.

“We played Wednesday, we were working Thursday and Friday normally, and I knew that maybe there were some players not with fresh legs.

“We had a good dynamic to try to do the aspect we were working on in the week.”

Pellegrino will lead his squad on a training camp in France where they will work further on his ideas.

“There are some aspects we are doing a little bit better than the first week,” he reflected.

“There is other aspects like the tempo of the game or trying to control the game when we are winning and some aspects that will improve when everybody will be involved and everybody feels in his legs a bit fresher.

“Now when you are a little bit tired you don’t have clear ideas to think on the pitch, and this is something that maybe will happen in the next few weeks.”