Tactically you also have to question why we reverted back to two upfront, away from home, when playing a weakened side. As you point out that could be due to limited options, partly brought about by having little confidence in the players breaking through at youth level and integrating them into the squad.
But have those players been shite for months and given the ball away for fun everytime they've pulled on a shirt for months on end (Bony Sterling Delph Kolarov...) or did they deserve a go in their teams?Madrid rested several players on Saturday, as did Bayern Munich, ahead of the second legs.
They have 3 days to recover and this time of the season is game by game,the Southampton was not a game we could gamble with.Sorry but I was not agreeing with your point, I was enquiring as to whether you knew how long the recommended recovery period is based on all the sports science knowledge that is now available but it would appear that you do not know.
The reason Pellegrini did not start most of the players who will begin the game in Madrid is because they would not be fully recovered.
What I can't fathom is with a maximumthanks for an honest answer, you know we all want the same, its just some of us have no confidence in him
What I can't fathom is with a maximum
of 4 games until the end of the season why we can't largely be unchanged especially after plenty of players have missed games recently. I get protecting Kompany and Toure but surely Clichy and Sagna can play the rest of our games. I also can't get why some of these players are not desperately trying to get themselves into the frame for Wednesday with their performances. Nasri aside some won't make the bench but might do had they put in a good performance.
I understand the scepticism but I felt we looked spent at the end of the real madrid first leg. They are going to have to work very hard on wednesday to have a sniff of a resilt and clearly Pellegrini thinks there isn't enough in the tank of a few players for them to play saturday, tuesday, sunday, wednesday, sunday - don't forget arsenal is a huge game too. My problem with his rotation is the fact that he has two teams rather than bringing one or two players at a time so that over the course of 10 games, everyone gets a couple of games off without the team looking much weaker in any one match. Pellegrini's problem is that the quality falls off a cliff from aguero to bony. Two years ago he had negredo and dzeko, which meant we were still strong even wiout setgio.
What I can't fathom is with a maximum
of 4 games until the end of the season why we can't largely be unchanged especially after plenty of players have missed games recently. I get protecting Kompany and Toure but surely Clichy and Sagna can play the rest of our games. I also can't get why some of these players are not desperately trying to get themselves into the frame for Wednesday with their performances. Nasri aside some won't make the bench but might do had they put in a good performance. The only player who looks like he's trying to get in the team is Nacho.
Did you see the aggression from spurs and chelsea tonight either of those teams would have blown us of the park playing with that aggression and intensity. when did our team of warriors vanish. toure kompany, zabaletta, lescott, barry, tevez, de jong, bellamy.
Did they disappear with our last manager.
Did you see the aggression from spurs and chelsea tonight either of those teams would have blown us of the park playing with that aggression and intensity. when did our team of warriors vanish. toure kompany, zabaletta, lescott, barry, tevez, de jong, bellamy.
Did they disappear with our last manager.
No offense but 5 of the 8 you named did disappearDid you see the aggression from spurs and chelsea tonight either of those teams would have blown us of the park playing with that aggression and intensity. when did our team of warriors vanish. toure kompany, zabaletta, lescott, barry, tevez, de jong, bellamy.
Did they disappear with our last manager.