Slaven Bilic is happy with West Hams preparation for their Europa League season opener on Thursday despite a reduced pre-season. The Hammers travel to Slovenia for the third qualifying round first leg against NK Domzale more than two weeks ahead of their first Premier League game against Chelsea on August 15, live on Sky Sports. New signings Sofiane Feghouli and Ashley Fletcher were on target alongside Andy Carroll as West Ham warmed up with a 3-0 win over Karlsruher SC in Austria on Saturday and Bilic is pleased with their build-up. We are happy with our preparations, he told West Hams official website. We have done everything that we wanted to do, but still we have to make a balance in our preparations to compromise some things because the competitive games dont start on 15 August, they start on Thursday. Its not ideal but Im really pleased with the way weve trained. We are still expecting a few players to come back, those who have been playing in the European Championships. If we continue to work hard like this, with dedication and humility, we can expect good things. The goals as West Ham are beaten 3-0 by Russian side Rubin Kazan in a pre-season friendly in Austria. Pictures courtesy of Premier Sports. West Ham have already been hit by injury setbacks with full-back Aaron Cresswell ruled out for up to four months with a knee ligament injury while playmaker Manuel Lanzini is returning to London after being ruled out of Argentinas squad for the Olympics with a knee problem. Arsenal stars top absentee list We investigate just which players are in danger of missing the opening weekend of the campaign. Bilic could hand 17-year-old Reece Oxford a place in the side for Thursdays Europa League clash after the defender joined the clubs pre-season camp in Austria following Englands exit from the U19 European Championship.I made my debut in the Europa League last season, then played two or three more and that helped me go on and play the first game in the Premier League, Oxford said. Hopefully I can do the same this summer. It would be good to be part of the squad to play in the first game at the new Stadium next week too. Also See: West Ham wait on Bacca West Ham fixtures Premier League 2 explained Transfer Centre LIVE! Nike Air VaporMax 2019 White-Metallic Gold . Patton was placed on the restricted list testing positive for a banned amphetamine. Patton took Adderall, a drug commonly used to combat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, late in the 2013 season and then was given a random drug test. Nike Air VaporMax Plus Black Gold . 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"We know that at Madrid it will be another game, which will also be important and very difficult," Milan coach Clarence Seedorf said.LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Charlie Strong remains Louisvilles football coach for the moment, telling assistants Saturday morning he hasnt decided to accept Texas offer to become its coach. Cardinals football spokesman Rocco Gasparro said Saturday that Strong told his staff that "no decision had been made" on whether to leave the school after four years. The coach has not met with athletic director Tom Jurich and university President James Ramsey as expected because the ADs return from his Colorado vacation was delayed by weather. A person familiar with Texas search told The Associated Press on Friday night that Strong was expected to accept the schools offer to replace Mack Brown, who stepped down last month. Contract details were not immediately available, but Brown was paid more than $5 million per season. Gasparro said there was no timetable on a decision by Strong, who is 37-15 with the Cardinals, including 3-1 in bowl games. "Its a difficult decision for him," Gasparro said. Strong, 53, met this week with new Texas athletic director Steve Patterson about the coaching vacancy, for which several prominent names hhave been mentioned as candidates.dddddddddddd Among them were Florida States Jimbo Fisher -- who agreed to a contract extension this week while preparing the top-ranked Seminoles for Mondays BCS national championship showdown with No. 2 Auburn -- UCLAs Jim Mora and Baylors Art Briles, both of whom said publicly they were staying in their current jobs. Strong turned down Tennessees offer to become its coach in December 2012. He had two stints as an assistant at Florida, first under Steve Spurrier and then as defensive co-ordinator for Urban Meyers two national championship teams. In 2010, Louisville hired him to take over the program and he quickly righted the Cardinals, who are moving into the Atlantic Coast Conference next season. Strong would be Texas first black head football coach, and he inherits a program aching to return to its place among the nations elite programs. Browns Longhorns won the national championship after the 2005 season and returned to the national championship game after the 2009 season. But the Longhorns fell to 5-7 in 2010 and have lost at least four games each of the last three seasons. ' ' '