59 last season with no play off and only 3rd round of the FA cup so we could well do.We could hit 60 games this season! What did Leicester do last year 42?
Chavs and Dippers will have a big advantage this year with being out of Europe.
Imo, you only have to look at the way City are playing & the workrate of our centre mids, to know it can't be sustained, especially with people kicking them all the time.
So either Pep rests & rotates, or he does a Manuel & they're all fucked by Christmas.
Imo, he will rest & rotate, but because of the start, imo he should be doing it now & we are entering into the danger area where Pellegrini fucked up last season, particularly KDB.
59 last season with no play off and only 3rd round of the FA cup so we could well do.
We've far more quality in depth and a better balanced squad than either of those two so not a huge worry yet, would be nice to see them as runners up in each of the domestic cups though.
Aguero's suspension is quite timely as the Cup games are coming thick and fast now. We also need to start to find oportunities to rest F'dinho and KdB. I can see them playing a lot of football this season. I'd like to see F'do, Delph, Garcia all get some game time over the comming weeks assuming they are fit so that we can ease the key players through the current 2 games a week period.
There's a case to be made for putting the top EDS lads in with a spine of fringe players/first teamers in the league cup imo, something like:
Gunn
Maffeo
Otamendi
Tosin
Clichy
Yaya
Garcia
Brahim
Navas/Sané
Nacho
Angelino
Rests all our key men, gives the lads experience and still a good bit of quality. We could bring in the likes of Nolito, Stones, Dinho etc against stronger opposition.
We've won this recently twice as well and while it's a competition well worth winning, the scheduling and fixture pile up it causes in the busiest months is a killer.
That was against a full strength Chavs team though, with out of form first teamers and the FA cup was their only realistic chance of silverware, not a swans side who'll be concentrating on avoiding the drop. Plus the only one in there that hasn't played senior football is Brahim, we had a fair few making their debuts in that FA cup game.If your going to go out you might as well go out 1st round. However I would prefer to drop 2 or 3 EDS in alongside 2 or 3 squad players just to make it more useful for those involved i.e. at least half teh team as first 11 players. The Chavs FA cup game had a bad feeling toward it in the end as it was a step to far. I also think Yaya is done and there is no point pretending otherwise.
Che Guardiola??!![/QUOTE]I do wonder why other coaches don't copy Guerilla's methods. A new technology comes along, it tends to get copied.
My understanding is Pep is well into the modern scientific approach i.e. using lots of data and going of the evidence regarding how much rest v’s intensive training should be used. A sports science approach would suggest that 2 days are needed to recover post game, 1 day of full recovery and maybe 1 of very light training, also only light training the day before a game. I would assume that would mean he would use lots more rest than an old school coach but also to use very intensive sessions when they have the time between games – as opposed to consistent medium and high impact training sessions. Mancini liked training to be tough and as a result the team was tough but then some players like Richards fell apart under that approach. Kompany’s treatment now would suggest it is a modern and data driven approach which is maybe easier on the players.