stony said:
Spurs have no real strength in depth, their fans will argue this point but then say that the only reason they lost to us was they had a couple of key players out. Like I said, no strength in depth. Soon as they start losing a few to injury they will start losing again.
Not including Parker, we were missing King, Sandro, Huddlestone, Pienaar and Jenas. Thats our first 4 choice midfielders and our center back captain. Modric could easily be added to that list because despite playing his clearly wasn't up for it, getting subbed for Livermore in the second half tells you that.
If Spurs played a City side with similar injuries to Kompany, Nasri, Toure, De Jong, Barry and a distracted Silva I reckon we'd turn you over too.
City possibly have the most quality in depth than anyone else in the world as you obviously already know, but I wouldn't say we are lacking depth. Only injuries to Adebayor and possibly Assou-Ekotto will really hit us hard as we don't have any top quality to replace them.
Of course injuries to Modric, Parker, King etc... will hurt us but with players like Huddlestone, Sandro, and Dawson waiting in the wings we have enough back up to give anyone a game. When teams get down to sixth and seventh choices like Kranjcar and Livermore they never stand a chance against other top teams.
