Tottenham - EFL Cup Final | Pre-Match Thread

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Uncle Wally One Ball said:
This is my view as well. However you slice it, we play a much more important game on Wednesday. Make changes, let them do their best and give them all the support we can
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In all fairness too we could do with players starting to step up to the plate too, Take Villa for example, Our bench looked short and that's because Sterling and Ferran have been piss poor of late so we are constantly reliant on Mahrez and Foden. Against PSG it would be nice to able to call upon both lads if our front men is having an off night, Wouldn't be a better way to boost your confidence scoring a winner in a cup final.

As you said no matter who starts we will support them. Massive week in our clubs history.
 
ninjamonkey said:
Read the bit around it that. In relation to where we were this time last week, being heavy favourites for 4 competitions then yes only winning the league is underwhelming because there's an opportunity for significantly more.

Just like last season when the scousers looked like winning everything and having an unbeaten season at one point and then ended the season with just the league, despite waiting 30 years for it, many were rightly putting that down as an underwhelming season for them because of what they should have won. The same applies here.
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Yeah, I know the sensation you’re talking about, and it’s an easy one to fall into. But... that’s the wrong mindset to me. There was an external/media trope (and yep, a few blues too) about the quad, so anything less is “an underachievement”. I actually think for a lot of those people it might only matter if we won one, as long as it was the Champions League though. A domestic treble and they’d still be spinning it as a disappointment.
I don’t accept any of that, and put myself back to day 1 at the start of the season, any season, and there’s always the same objective; win the league. Every time. Always.
Just because we go far in the other tournaments shouldn’t and for me doesn’t take away from that. Going out in a cup competition, in the first round, or in the semi final, makes no difference to me - the effect is the same; you ain’t winning it (though it makes a prize money difference I guess). I do appreciate your pov,
I just really rail against it.
 
There’s a trophy to be won. The CL is irrelevant until Wednesday.

We have to be a trophy winning club, every season and cannot choose what to win in case others don’t go well for any reason, ref mistakes, var, shit finishing, whatever.

Strongest possible side, get it won.
 
Chelsea are better than Spurs so hopefully with a few changes it won’t give them the edge. Kane is out so that is good. Son is a problem. We need to keep a tight watch on him. Thorn in our side that fella.

The key with Spurs is starve their forwards. The rest of their side is shit.

I don’t mind some rotation as long as it doesn’t include Mendy and Torres. The former is crap and the latter is too raw for this game.

I would pick Ederson too but I doubt Pep will.

Ederson
Walker
Dias
Laporte
Cancelo
Fernandinho
Gundogan
Bernado
Sterling
Jesus
Foden
 
I'd probably go full strength if it wasn't for extra time. Having likely starters against PSG playing the full 90 plus potentially 30 mins of extra time is perhaps too much of a risk. Maybe 2 or 3 that could be subbed after 60 mins.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Chelsea are better than Spurs so hopefully with a few changes it won’t give them the edge. Kane is out so that is good. Son is a problem. We need to keep a tight watch on him. Thorn in our side that fella.

The key with Spurs is starve their forwards. The rest of their side is shit.

I don’t mind some rotation as long as it doesn’t include Mendy and Torres. The former is crap and the latter is too raw for this game.

I would pick Ederson too but I doubt Pep will.

Ederson
Walker
Dias
Laporte
Cancelo
Fernandinho
Gundogan
Bernado
Sterling
Jesus
Foden
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It's a decent team and we could sub 3 of Bernardo, Foden, Walker, Dias or Gundogan at 60 mins.
 
Strongest team or we get beat . An attack of sterling Jesus and Torres and we might aswell give the cup to Spurs as we will not get goals and they will damage us on the break . Fed up ofreading about this city team with 2 sides capable of winning the title because you move away from our strongest 11 and we are a team that doesn’t create .
 
AliBobbyJ said:
Went to the replay in '81 and wanted revenge ever since, though it won't be true revenge till City beat Tottenham in another F.A. Cup Final. Would take losing on Sunday if City win on Wednesday (but hope they can win it by keeping Son & Kane quiet till 70th minute then bring on KDB and Foden.)
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I went to Maine road to see the dejected City team arrive back from losing the replay . I think there were about 6 of us ..
 
Think Pep has pretty much said he’s going to play the reserves. It’s a win win for him. If we win, all well and good. If we get beat it was a weakened team and he doesn’t care anyway. Personally I’d rather we go with our strongest team and beat these motherfuckers
 
Cornish_Blue said:
Mendy, Sterling or Cancelo should be nowhere near this starting lineup.
Either play our best team with 1 or 2 adjustments, or we might as well just send out the EDS.
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They could well be the one or two adjustments though.
It’s actually the midfield where we are weakest in depth.
We have only gundogan rodri Fernandinho de bruyne and Bernardo who can play in the midfield 3.
Of those, pep doesn’t like to play bernardo in one of those 3 and prefers him as one of the front 3. And we don’t play as well with Fernandinho and Rodri together.
De bruyne is out and Fernandinho likely to play so not much room for resting players there.
Walker is the form RB and need pace for PSG so it makes sense to rest him.
Therefore cancelo starts but then you either play zinchenko both games or play mendy v Spurs and zinchenko v PSG.
So clear cases for both cancelo and mendy.
Given lack of options to rotate midfield and the need to have fresh legs for pressing up front v PSG it would make sense to save for example bernardo for PSG which leaves space For sterling.

personally think foden doesn’t need rest given his age
 
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