Leicester City (A) | Pre-Match Thread

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Dortmund has their own crucial match on the 3rd of April vs Frankfurt. thats a must win high tempo game for the CL places. If they lose they nearly can forget about finishing in top4 and be in CL next year.
 
A much-changed team should still be strong enough to beat them, but if there is 1 team I wouldn't mind dropping points to its them, so they can get ahead of Med Red.
 
MAG said:
Why?

You want him to start against Dortmund instead? It's very simple selection for me ... whoever is going to play against Dortmund, put them on the bench or not in squad at all - simple ... so based on that Mendy starts this one.
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I think you are wrong in this aspect. City have been playing two matches a week since the start of the season with the only exception being the cancelled Everton match. City will contimnue to to play two matches a week until the demostic season ends in May.

The away Leicester match is late afternoon on Saturday and the home Borussia Dortmund match is Tuesday evening. That is a decent interval for players to recover.

I think that there will be rotation. I expect that Stones and Dias will play on Tuesday but that Laporte will play on Satuday to gove one a rest. Walker will probably play on Saturday to give Cancelo or Zinchenko a match off. Similarly I think that Sterling and Jesus could play Saturday with Kevin De Bruyne and Mahrez in on Tuesday. Fernandinho could play Saturday and Rodri Tuesday. We may or may not see Torres or Aguero on Saturday although I see no reason why Gundogan, Foden, and Bernardo cannot play both matches.

It's a difficult balancing act. Leicester is certainly the hardest PL match left while Dortmund is probably the least daunting task in Europe. A loss against Leicester will not be terminal but one against Dortmund will be.

There will be planty of less difficult Premier League matches left to give gametime to Mendy, Torres, Aguero, and Ake
 
JGL07 said:
I think you are wrong in this aspect. City have been playing two matches a week since the start of the season with the only exception being the cancelled Everton match. City will contimnue to to play two matches a week until the demostic season ends in May.

The away Leicester match is late afternoon on Saturday and the home Borussia Dortmund match is Tuesday evening. That is a decent interval for players to recover.

I think that there will be rotation. I expect that Stones and Dias will play on Tuesday but that Laporte will play on Satuday to gove one a rest. Walker will probably play on Saturday to give Cancelo or Zinchenko a match off. Similarly I think that Sterling and Jesus could play Saturday with Kevin De Bruyne and Mahrez in on Tuesday. Fernandinho could play Saturday and Rodri Tuesday. We may or may not see Torres or Aguero on Saturday although I see no reason why Gundogan, Foden, and Bernardo cannot play both matches.

It's a difficult balancing act. Leicester is certainly the hardest PL match left while Dortmund is probably the least daunting task in Europe. A loss against Leicester will not be terminal but one against Dortmund will be.

There will be planty of less difficult Premier League matches left to give gametime to Mendy, Torres, Aguero, and Ake
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Yes every three days ... but this game is after two week break (for our group) and during which some players will play three games, some less and some won't play any at all ... and their training regime changes as well with their respective national teams ... so all I suggested (see the very first post in this thread) was that Pep will use this game to recondition the whole group back together. Give minutes to who needs them and wrap in cotton wool and put them aside who is absolute must for Dortmund game. Last thing we need is a player getting injured after coming back and playing this game, having played internationals as well. I expect KdB, Cancelo, Gundo, Bernardo etc. the core guys who have been in form for us and who all will be playing internationals as well so be given this one off. Having gone away and trained different teams and played in different formations, this is going to be the regrouping game for them all coming back and getting ready for Dortmund.
 
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