How many points will be needed to win the league? (74 GD)

How many points will be needed to win the league?

  • 81 - 85

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  • 76 - 80

    Votes: 280 28.0%
  • 70 - 75

    Votes: 50 5.0%

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There’s rotation, and there’s wholesale rotation.

Dias didn’t have to be rested, especially with La Porte missing.

Bar the sending off, which happens, Dias and Stones wouldn’t have had a hard day. Playing Dias and Stones, with Fern in-front, would have been enough to deal with the Leeds attack, when it came, which wasn’t often.

I can fully understand resting KDB and the other midfield players who have busted a gut over the last few weeks.

Dortmund have rested 2 players.

Dias is the one player who should have been rested and he should have been rested earlier

He has started 15 games since Feb 13th. 56 days. Including 3 international games and all the travelling involved.

A game every 3.7 days.

You cannot just keep asking them to perform to high levels under that schedule both physically and mentally.

Dortmund have rested two players because they can’t afford to rest anymore. We can.
 
Dortmund are in the shit in their league we are not.. Dias has played shed loads of football recently

They are. But we had the ideal opportunity to tie up the league.

Dias would have been the difference with those 2 Leeds goals.

Yes, Dias has played almost every game. But today would have been a stroll for him.

He would still have had 4 days rest before Dortmund.

I bet he will be playing against Chelsea 4 day’s after Dortmund.

Not having a pop at Pep. I appreciate he has to rotate. But with La Porte missing, Dias should have played.

Like every City fan I hope to God with the rested players City win on Wednesday against Dortmund. And if we do, I will give Pep all the credit he deserves. But at the moment I’m still pissed off we threw 3 points away today. That’s all. :-)
 
Dias is the one player who should have been rested and he should have been rested earlier

He has started 15 games since Feb 13th. 56 days. Including 3 international games and all the travelling involved.

A game every 3.7 days.

You cannot just keep asking them to perform to high levels under that schedule both physically and mentally.

Dortmund have rested two players because they can’t afford to rest anymore. We can.

See above.
 
There’s rotation, and there’s wholesale rotation.

Dias didn’t have to be rested, especially with La Porte missing.

Bar the sending off, which happens, Dias and Stones wouldn’t have had a hard day. Playing Dias and Stones, with Fern in-front, would have been enough to deal with the Leeds attack, when it came, which wasn’t often.

I can fully understand resting KDB and the other midfield players who have busted a gut over the last few weeks.

Dortmund have rested 2 players.

Even more reason to rest Dias in my humble opinion. A knock to him and/or Stones and we’re in a spot of bother.

It’s all risk reward.. I personally think that 11 was good enough to risk it. 29 shots to 2 kind of confirms it. I actually posted it was going to be one of those games at about 50 odd minutes in the match thread. It had the feeling it was going that way. Fielding our strongest 11 definitely lowers the already low odds of having “one of those days” but doesn’t totally eliminate them.

Basically we could be facing the same situation without any key players being rested.

The risk was worth the reward in my book and we got unlucky in this particular battle but it could prove valuable in winning multiple wars. I suppose we will find that out by the end of next month.
 
They are. But we had the ideal opportunity to tie up the league.

Yes, Dias has played almost every game. But today would have been a stroll for him.

He would still have had 4 days rest before Dortmund.

I bet he will be playing against Chelsea 4 day’s after Dortmund.

Not having ago at Pep. I appreciate he has to rotate. But with La Porte missing, Dias should have played.

Like every City fan I hope to God with rested players we win on Wednesday against Dortmund. And if we do, I will give Pep all the credit he deserves. But at the moment I’m still pissed off we threw 3 points away today. That’s all. :-)

Why would today have been a stroll for Dias? He would have been up against Bamford, the 4th top goal scorer in the league and the 6th top assister. Plus they had Raphina who is the 7th top assister.
 
They are. But we had the ideal opportunity to tie up the league.

Dias would have been the difference with those 2 Leeds goals.

Yes, Dias has played almost every game. But today would have been a stroll for him.

He would still have had 4 days rest before Dortmund.

I bet he will be playing against Chelsea 4 day’s after Dortmund.

Not having a pop at Pep. I appreciate he has to rotate. But with La Porte missing, Dias should have played.

Like every City fan I hope to God with the rested players City win on Wednesday against Dortmund. And if we do, I will give Pep all the credit he deserves. But at the moment I’m still pissed off we threw 3 points away today. That’s all. :-)
The simple fact is the players on the pitch created enough opportunities to win that game they didn’t produce the necessary down To the players as far as I’m concerned
 
They are. But we had the ideal opportunity to tie up the league.

Dias would have been the difference with those 2 Leeds goals.

Yes, Dias has played almost every game. But today would have been a stroll for him.

He would still have had 4 days rest before Dortmund.

I bet he will be playing against Chelsea 4 day’s after Dortmund.

Not having a pop at Pep. I appreciate he has to rotate. But with La Porte missing, Dias should have played.

Like every City fan I hope to God with the rested players City win on Wednesday against Dortmund. And if we do, I will give Pep all the credit he deserves. But at the moment I’m still pissed off we threw 3 points away today. That’s all. :-)

you’ve answered the reasoning in your own post by bringing the Chelsea game into it. 3 games.. 2 must win..
 
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