BillyShears
Well-Known Member
I think I've been as vocal a champion of Sterling as anyone, and have been saying he's our POTS for months, but I still think he deserves a rest at some point if he's going to keep it going through the next few months with the fixture congestion, and his performance vs. Swansea did make it look like playing every minute of every game was getting to him. Obviously the 8 days rest was enough.
A rest is in my eyes different to what happened to Kun in the last two games. My point was simply that people calling for Raz to be dropped for Kun don't get how much Pep rates him and how important he is to our side. I suspect he'll get a rest against Huddersfield in order to be primed for Monaco.