Atalanta (A) CL Pre-Match Thread

Atalanta (A) Prediction

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Who knows what the answer is better than Pep? Maybe he is in that school of thought of keeping your better players sharp by playing them, they all want to play anyways and they love the vote of confidence. If Pep thinks the injury likelihood is minimal, then fine, and I would expect some early changes if we were to be winning in the second half.
 
A strong line up under the circumstances, but trying to win every game is a commendable attitude, now, didnt we play away in this comp back in october 2011 before going away to our main league rivals(scum). We all know how that turned out, heres hoping for the same.
 
Needless risk been taken considering the terrible injury crisis with this line up, its not like this is the first game after international break that you need to get players in momentum. Hopefully no injuries
 
Fordyboy46 said:
Shows how thin on the ground we're getting with that bench, really poor.
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karen7 said:
Pep is very open about how he loves the CL,it will never match up with what most of us want
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It’s not about the importance of one completion over another at this stage, The point is, this is as close to a dead rubber as you can get without yet being mathematically through. We need 1 win from 3 games in a very weak group, I’d still put as favourites with a fully rotated 11 tonight but even if we lost, it’s irrelevant we can play a full strength side one of the other games if necessary when we have less injuries and less demanding games following it. We’ve won the first three with absolute ease giving ourselves the great advantage of being able to rest players now with other games in mind yet we’ve chosen not to take that advantage handed to us. It’s a ridiculous decision.

Let’s say god forbid 34 year old Fernandinho who’s going to be expected to play 3 games a week again, picks up a niggle tonight that keeps him out for a week, we lose him for Liverpool for the sake of what? A better chance of going through now rather than in a few weeks time if everything went against us tonight?

Look at klopps teams this last week, I think he rested every single player in the carabao cup, rested Fabinho at the weekend to avoid the needless risk of a ban for Sunday and then rested half his team again last night and still won them all. And we wonder why they never seem to pick up injuries. We’ve got stones, Garcia and angelino on the bench, did Fernandinho and mendy really need to be risked tonight?
 
Citizen in Pakistan said:
Needless risk been taken considering the terrible injury crisis with this line up, its not like this is the first game after international break that you need to get players in momentum. Hopefully no injuries
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The thinking behind it, i'm assuming is to win this game then the next 2 are dead rubbers can rest the big boys for the December schedule.
 
Don't forget, the club get £500k for every point in the group stages. That's why Pep has a strong XI, he needs the money to buy Mbappe!
 
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