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Not really, the man that updates the website or twitter wouldn't know who Poch was going to pick.
So VW takes no responsibility for the dodgy emissons team ? Thats not quite how it works.
Not really, the man that updates the website or twitter wouldn't know who Poch was going to pick.
This is the thing that concerns me. It's like Poch had no idea that running our key players into the ground earlier in the season would lead to fatigue. And if he didn't really trust certain squad players early on then why did we do nothing in Jan to freshen things up, even on a short term basis?
You have to pace your team to peak at the business end of the season. Fergie consistently talked about this during his time at Utd.
What's the point of playing your strongest teams early in the competition only to just fuck it off when you come up against the best team in it?
Not really, if today the club still claim that Kane started the game your analogy may have some validity.So VW takes no responsibility for the dodgy emissons team ? Thats not quite how it works.
Whilst I admire your optimism, and yes stranger things may have happened, they won't this time even if they rest a few, I cannot see us keeping a clean sheet in the 2nd leg which means we will have to score 5 if they score 1 or 6 if they score two and so on....Didn't we win 3-0 in the first leg against Inter a few years back and then end up shitting ourselves in the replay? I'm not saying I expect it to be a close tie, but if Dortmund rest a number of their big-hitters we've got a sniff of a chance.
It's a European night and it's White Hart Lane. Leicester are 5 points clear at the top of the PL... all I'm saying is stranger things have happened!
Obviously, none of us know exactly what Pochettino was thinking and can only speculate. My own view is even had we played our strongest team there would remain a strong possibility, perhaps even probability, we would lose this tie. Dortmund are an excellent team playing full of confidence. Or to put it another way, we are unlikely to face a team anywhere near as good as them for the rest of the season. There is the school of thought that says you should never play your weakest team, especially in a game of such magnitude, and you should always believe you can win no matter the opposition. But the flip side of that is playing the percentages and selecting a team you think can do enough and saving some of the key players for more achievable challenges coming up.
Beat Aston Villa, Bournemouth, Stoke, West Brom, Southampton and Newcastle plus one of either Liverpool, Manchester United and Chelsea, and we will have a superb chance of winning the Premier League.
Based on that surely everyone can understand yesterday's team selection even if they don't agree with it?
Not really, if today the club still claim that Kane started the game your analogy may have some validity.
Mind you there is one similarity, I don't give a toss about the VW emissions either.
I cannot believe there are people defending this team selection. The first thing I did last night was text my mate who travelled and expressed my disgust - going to all that trouble and expense for that?
Like the man said you don't take a knife to a gunfight.
A number of people, including myself ,were critical of Poch playing too strong a side pre-Christmas against sides where there was no need. Rotation needs to start early as fatigue is cumulative throughout the season.
However at the time a n umber of other posters were adamant that we must always play 'our best players'. Strangely they don't seem to have learned from the Wham and Arsenal showings that there was an issue which is why Poch started the team he did against Dortmund,
Can't do anything this season, but lets hope Poch does learn for next season.
Incidentally it was a point that people made when Poch was appointed that Southampton had exhibited 'burnout' under him at a similar stage of the season.....so Poch is still relatively inexperienced to manage a team at this level, but he needs to learn not to play the likes of Kane against Colchester or some of the EL group ties, so as to have better rested players at this time of the season. That in turn will mean that Poch needs to play the likes of Onomah and Winks more which will aid their development which has a long term benefit
A number of people, including myself ,were critical of Poch playing too strong a side pre-Christmas against sides where there was no need. Rotation needs to start early as fatigue is cumulative throughout the season.
However at the time a n umber of other posters were adamant that we must always play 'our best players'. Strangely they don't seem to have learned from the Wham and Arsenal showings that there was an issue which is why Poch started the team he did against Dortmund,
Can't do anything this season, but lets hope Poch does learn for next season.
Incidentally it was a point that people made when Poch was appointed that Southampton had exhibited 'burnout' under him at a similar stage of the season.....so Poch is still relatively inexperienced to manage a team at this level, but he needs to learn not to play the likes of Kane against Colchester or some of the EL group ties, so as to have better rested players at this time of the season. That in turn will mean that Poch needs to play the likes of Onomah and Winks more which will aid their development which has a long term benefit
Didn't we win 3-0 in the first leg against Inter a few years back and then end up shitting ourselves in the replay? I'm not saying I expect it to be a close tie, but if Dortmund rest a number of their big-hitters we've got a sniff of a chance.
It's a European night and it's White Hart Lane. Leicester are 5 points clear at the top of the PL... all I'm saying is stranger things have happened!
Well we havent played our strongest teams in the cups and we are left with one front left as it is extremely unlikely we will turnover a 3-0 deficit. As the game changed so much from the time Jol got us 5th, Fa cup quarter final, league cup semi final and Uefa cup quarter finals on a squad that is not better than the one we have now? I dont think it has. I wish we would just try for once to play our strongest teams in the cups and see where it takes us, you never know we might win something.Yeah but you'd surely rather take a knife than a gun with no bullets.
If people just want us to play our strongest team again and again then fair enough that's your opinion. But in this day and age it's a daft opinion and one that would lead us to eventually fail on all fronts.
The main thing last night highlighted was our lack of depth in certain key areas (central midfield and striker most notably) but taking any other conclusions from it seems to be to be actively looking for negatives in a season full of positives.
I think ATL Madrid and Juve are better.Quite possibly they are, depends whose opinion though - after Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern and maybe PSG they have a claim to be 4th