braineclipse
Steve Sedgley
Definitely not expecting an easy game at all. Very rare that these games are as you say.Indeed. I also think many teams in these 'lesser' leagues will see a game against a PL team as a massive "advertisement window" (on different levels) so will up their game regardless. We go into it writing it off as a game to rotate most of the team at our peril
We should rotate, it's not sustainable not to. But how much is an open question. Bit like we've seen in our previous cup/EL games would be my guess. Hopefully switching it up a bit which first team players start between the different cup/EL games so no players have to do some really long runs of two games a week.
Will be interesting to see if we give Solanke in particular a rest now. Has played a lot, was injured for a bit and looks really important to us.
Hope to see Moore and Lankshear get minutes at least. More or less assuming Bergvall and Gray start.