Originally Posted by
Insidious
Hypothetical - you're an Atletico Madrid fan - we play a bunch of youths against AC Milan - in terms of the spirit of the competition, would you not be livid?
Not suggesting we should go full strength or anything, for what it's worth. Though I can understand sides being frustrated in certain situations - remember Mick McCarthy made 10 changes to play Man United in the League? Can't imagine title rivals would have seen that as being remotely within the spirit of the game, such as it is these days.
Hopefully we can manage something like 4/5 of our first XI and use fringe lads for the rest, strike a happy balance.
Atletico, should have done the business earlier on in the group.
We've won our games and qualified early, we've 'earned' the right to rest players. Like the game in Denmark, how is it fair that we 'have' to play first team players and one of them picks up a substantial injury.
And as Steveo mentions, we have a CL squad to pick from, who are UEFA to decide who is first team or not.
We're coming up to busiest part of the season and will be missing two of our forwards, so we're going to struggle even more with being able to rotate. I would absolutely not be playing any of teh first XI
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