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So many tired players out there tonight. Should’ve rotated more.

As the thread has gone on, people’s guesses are edging closer to mine (whether that’s right or wrong, I don’t know). I knew Facundo would be playing in my bones, also fairly confident Mitoma will start from the bench and Enciso will play on the left. There is no way Mitoma plays another 90...

Fortunately we have an excellent head coach to do that for us. Still, fun to speculate!

He said along the lines of “I want to see the same side” (as in the game at Wembley). I took it to mean in terms of performance level and mentality, not necessarily personnel.

So a reminder, we played Sunday, then we play Wednesday, then Saturday, then Thursday, then Monday. This works out as 5 games (including one lasting around 130 minutes plus penalties) in 15 days. If we don’t rotate Wednesday, then when?

In my view he is one of several players who are going to be required to play a huge number of games in a very short period of time. He can’t possibly play every single game, so I am sure RDZ is looking at how many changes he can make to keep players fresh without upsetting the flow of the team...

I am actually anticipating a few changes on Wednesday night, for a freshen up and to manage the squad’s minutes. Something like this is possible; Steele Veltman, Dunk, Webster, Colwill Ayari, Caicedo Buonanotte Mac Enciso Undav On the working basis that Welbeck and Ferguson are both injured...