I'd wager a good deal of Spurs fans will know what sort of out sides *we* will be putting out, though.
------------------------------Lopez-------------------------
Walker-Peters---CCV--------Wimmer-------Walkes
-------------------------Wanyama----Winks----------
Edwards----------------Onomah------------N'Koudou
-------------------------------Janssen---------------------
And that's if we're lucky and Poch deems three first-team players a sufficient number to keep the throwing of the game from looking *too* obvious. Fact is, people don't get upset about playing FC Tractor Factory in the Europa League because *they* are part-time Romanian machinists from some haunted Transylvanian valley, and generally crap - it's because we evidently don't give a damn about not looking crap either.
In the Europa League, or the Champions League. And if we rest first-team players against Monaco in a must win game, there is no chance that Poch will take any of the EL games seriously - like the League Cup, his aim will be to go out as limply and painlessly as possible, so we can get back into the CL and do our hardest to limply exit that competition again, so we can get into it the next season, etcetera, etcetera. Like we used to make fun of Arsenal for doing back when we went further than them in our one and only appearance in the competition. 'The Game is About Glory' sounds tinny and pathetic when faced with the reality of a manager who loudly proclaims the value of 'passion' in football disinterestedly shipping games in both the CL and EL so he can turn his attentions elsewhere.
*That* is why you will have a supremely hard time convincing anybody that it's worth it to schlep to Wembley on a midweek evening to watch the kids limply lose to some tractor machinists. Simple reality, that, unless something drastic changes.