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His head is a lot larger so he offers a greater amount of head per position on the pitch compared to Varane
Carabao Cup - Semi Finals 2nd leg ** Spoilers ** [31st Jan - 1st Feb 2023]
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His head is a lot larger so he offers a greater amount of head per position on the pitch compared to Varane
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Nice to see Sancho getting his name chanted by the fans. Nice cameo from him. Quick feet and technical so its nice to see him being given a chance as the 10.
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Newcastle have 8 days off. We have 48 hours before we play the final after a Home against Barcelona.
Hopefully we put Barcelona to bed in the first leg because I worry about fatigue playing Newcastle.
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Yeah the scheduling is crazy, think we're playing twice as many games as Newcastle in the weeks before.
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This is a big difference. I don't go into any games with dread now. I don't think we are a distant second best to anyone.
I think more likely the Barca tie os over in their favour after the first leg. Have you seen how they are playing in the league. Top of the table, have only lost once and conceded 7 goals. Tbh I trade the Europa League for top 4 and the league cup!
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I'd be content to drop out of the Europa, we don't have the squad to compete in four competitions, especially with the nutty scheduling this season.
This is why rest is important
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I'm not sure. I think that if we can get past Barca we could win the EL. Dembele is injured at the moment as well.
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This is my worry. We put Newcastle to bed any day of the week with the same rest but this cup final is coming at such a bad time.
If you remember we were robbed of a draw against Sociedad we wouldn't even be playing those two games but meh.
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This is why rest is important
I am not massively worried. EtH brought on Rashford today when we didn't need to win the game and kept Bruno on the full 90. I don't think hes an idiot so I can only assume they are both fine. Not sure I am worried about anyone else. Casemiro doesn't worry me at the moment either.
That's no way to refer to one of your most expensive players. His name is Harry and he'd like a little more love from the fans
Bruno will be well rested ^^This is why rest is important
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The Spanish league is embarrassingly weak now so I wouldn't put much context into their league position. Remember there is a reason Barcelona are in the Europa league after all.
Sociedad are 3rd and have only lost 4 times themselves. We beat them away and they only beat us because of a corrupt penalty call. Plus we were still playing Ronaldo then.
I fear Newcastle more than I do Barcelona.
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All this talk about resting players, I understand the need, especially considering the fixture backlog, but I don't think they all need resting too much. We are playing at a higher tempo but its at our tempo, we are not chasing games using up more energy like we did at the start of the season. We have found a pace that suits us. The new way/style of training may also have an effect on fitness we don't see, maybe the players are more fitter thus requiring less rest. ETH has been rotating players but he seems to rotate a section at a time, defence, midfield and offence. If one section isn't working out great, he will bring on the first team players in the second half.
Yeah we are thin squad wise, but if he pulls of a cup any cup win and a top 4, well, hes a bloody magician.
Yeah we are thin squad wise, but if he pulls of a cup any cup win and a top 4, well, hes a bloody magician.
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A lot of people seem to be ignoring this. He seems far more concerned about making sure that certain groups are kept playing together and when he rests people he does it as a bit of a set. I think thats honestly quite clever. Those players will always play with each other under normal circumstances so moving them in and out every other game when its an easy/hard one probably does more harm than good.
We aren't a super high energy team yet still so he probably thinks that the workload is OK for them. I reckon we are doing far more tactical and technical training than fitness at the moment and letting the games give players the fitness. Over the summer he will probably work them hard ready for next season but for now I think hes getting it right.