After hearing his press conference I'm worried now that pep's going to play a lot stronger team than he first suggested he would and stronger than the teams were all putting down. Difficult to say this but the reality is we really need to lose this game and under no circumstances get anymore injuries.
The only time we don't have a midweek game for the rest of the year is 17/18 December which will be the next round of fixtures. should we progress tonight, that will be sandwiched inbetween a home derby and an away game at Villa.
Should we get through that, the semi final first leg will be played in January which will effectively completely cancel the winter "break" of 10 days we get as its played directly in the middle of that and the second leg is played immediately after arsenal away in feb.
It gets worse and worse the longer you stay in it and that's before we factor in still having champions league games in the new year under the new format.
not only do we not need the extra games, we need the rest when the next fixtures are played. It's too much of a sacrifice to be worth winning and so you may aswell go out early and benefit from the rest.
Just throw it pep.