He already HAS impacted the title through his decisions in the Chelsea home match. The game was a 6 point swing and the two reds were a consequence of that. He now has an opportunity to impact our fa cup and I have no doubt he will officiate us in the league again before the end of the season.He cannot impact premier title other than through few reds so be prepared for those. Pep should be smart and bring out kids for this and only keep few regular team players and avoid injuries as well just when Champ league is starting.
If not for the cheating **** taylor we'd be 2 points off the chavs now, minimum.In 37 years of watching city and seeing quite a lot of terrible referee decisions (does anyone remember the perfectly good goal disallowed about 15 years ago because of an offside player that never touched the ball or made a play for it? I am sure it was a relegation season) no referee has annoyed me more than that rag. I think his decisions will cost us the title.
We need to rotate, but not clear as to what team we will play against Monaco. I can see us recalling Bravo for that game, and playing a little bit more cautiously. Do we go for the experience of Aguero? Perhaps. I think the team we play against Monaco will select the team against Huddersfield because as you say with it being on a Tuesday we'd be weakening our game if we played the same players twice in a few days. Maybe central defenders could play twice, and a keeper.IMO he goes for Bravo no matter what here, ditto Nolito and Delph. As others have noted, Huddersfield are unlikely to play a full strength side, they can't due to be Mooy being ineligible regardless, as they will understandably be prioritizing their promotion push (currently 3rd in the Championship, but it's tight)
Yes, magic of the cup and all that, but we need to rotate and make use of our deep squad with Monaco looming three days later.