Rigga Posted 23 September 2020 Share Posted 23 September 2020 Wolves took it seriously last season and just ran out of puff at the end. Not many English teams will play their Full blooded first 11... Especially in the opening rounds. Can you see Vardy playing Thurs/Sunday every week ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbury Fox Posted 23 September 2020 Share Posted 23 September 2020 2 minutes ago, Aus Fox said: I can’t think of a single reason not to take the competition seriously? Let’s rest a few players and go out early, so we might qualify for Europe next season - where is the logic? True but look at the state of our squad. We can't expect our top players to play for 60 games in a season, especially a season as concertinaed as this one. We will have to rotate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Aus Fox Posted 23 September 2020 Popular Post Share Posted 23 September 2020 27 minutes ago, Sunbury Fox said: True but look at the state of our squad. We can't expect our top players to play for 60 games in a season, especially a season as concertinaed as this one. We will have to rotate. We will have to rotate no doubt about it, but that doesn’t mean not taking the EL seriously. We have 2 good players in most positions (CB aside). Tonight we rotated everyone at the same time, we don’t need to do it like this to be successful in the PL and EL. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dan LCFC Posted 24 September 2020 Popular Post Share Posted 24 September 2020 An absolute disgrace if we don't take this seriously. By all means if we play Sheriff Tiraspol I'm not going to demand we start our best XI, though we absolutely shouldn't be naming an XI anything like tonight as I think even they would beat that. I'm struggling to see the point if we don't take this seriously. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanolegend1989 Posted 24 September 2020 Share Posted 24 September 2020 3 hours ago, Rigga said: Wolves took it seriously last season and just ran out of puff at the end. Not many English teams will play their Full blooded first 11... Especially in the opening rounds. Can you see Vardy playing Thurs/Sunday every week ? Wolves had an extra 6 qualifying games. We’re now out the league cup, we can have a real shot at the Europa! No excuses! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aus Fox Posted 24 September 2020 Share Posted 24 September 2020 Europa League Qualifies continue this evening. Hopefully we can get into Pot 2, this should make out progression a little easier and be more likely we can qualify early and rest players for the last game, like Porto in the CL campaign. For this to happen we are looking for as many of these teams as possible to go out: Viktoria Plzen Besiktas Malmoe PSV Celtic Rosenborg Partizan Belgrade APOEL Fc Koebenhavn Galatasaray Spurs Wolfsburg Sporting Basel Hopefully in 13 games there are a couple of upsets, I think our best chance is Rosenborg and Partizan Belgrade are the most likely to struggle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowlattsFox Posted 24 September 2020 Share Posted 24 September 2020 We will rest a couple of players each game I reckon. We'll only see massive changes if we're already out, or through Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 24 September 2020 Share Posted 24 September 2020 6 hours ago, Dan LCFC said: An absolute disgrace if we don't take this seriously. By all means if we play Sheriff Tiraspol I'm not going to demand we start our best XI, though we absolutely shouldn't be naming an XI anything like tonight as I think even they would beat that. I'm struggling to see the point if we don't take this seriously. We probably have more chance of winning this than finishing top four so the board will want to win it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan_K Posted 24 September 2020 Share Posted 24 September 2020 We played 6 games in the Carabao cup last season. This year we are out after our first game. There's 5 of the Europa League group games accounted for before we need to rotate more than we did in the Carabao last year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzzy_Larsson Posted 24 September 2020 Share Posted 24 September 2020 10 hours ago, Aus Fox said: I can’t think of a single reason not to take the competition seriously? Let’s rest a few players and go out early, so we might qualify for Europe next season - where is the logic? This, exactly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stadt Posted 24 September 2020 Share Posted 24 September 2020 10 hours ago, Rigga said: Wolves took it seriously last season and just ran out of puff at the end. Not many English teams will play their Full blooded first 11... Especially in the opening rounds. Can you see Vardy playing Thurs/Sunday every week ? Wolves won 5 out of 9 after the restart 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markyblue Posted 24 September 2020 Share Posted 24 September 2020 Really looking forward to this competition, this is what it's all about, playing in Europe, i remember playing mk dons and Northampton, this is what we strive for ,go make us proud city, cant wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach0000 Posted 24 September 2020 Share Posted 24 September 2020 We’ve binned of the carabao cup to take this seriously and if we get to the knock out stages we’ll bin off the FA cup to I would think. I would put money on is going full strength for this competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 24 September 2020 Share Posted 24 September 2020 17 minutes ago, Stadt said: Wolves won 5 out of 9 after the restart Alternatively, lost 3 of their last 6, gave up 6th place to Spurs on the final day and barely turned up for the game against Sevilla 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 24 September 2020 Share Posted 24 September 2020 We can afford to make 4-5 changes and still be mustard in the EL/Prem. We just need to add that elusive CB and potentially one more dynamic attacking/creative player and get Gray or Albrighton in the sea. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzzy_Larsson Posted 24 September 2020 Share Posted 24 September 2020 23 minutes ago, Guest said: Alternatively, lost 3 of their last 6, gave up 6th place to Spurs on the final day and barely turned up for the game against Sevilla Bit harsh given Sevilla ended up winning the competition beating Man Utd and Inter, coming from behind in both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 24 September 2020 Share Posted 24 September 2020 41 minutes ago, Muzzy_Larsson said: Bit harsh given Sevilla ended up winning the competition beating Man Utd and Inter, coming from behind in both. Oh yeah Sevilla are good but Wolves in that game were really, really poor, in the same way that Liverpool were superb most of the year but we didn't turn up for the home game against them. Their performance in that game was that of a team who had exhausted themselves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzzy_Larsson Posted 24 September 2020 Share Posted 24 September 2020 59 minutes ago, Guest said: Oh yeah Sevilla are good but Wolves in that game were really, really poor, in the same way that Liverpool were superb most of the year but we didn't turn up for the home game against them. Their performance in that game was that of a team who had exhausted themselves Or a side who simply came up against a much better side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beechey Posted 24 September 2020 Share Posted 24 September 2020 I think it's obvious that the weak squad yesterday was an indication that Rodgers is likely putting more into Europa than the domestic cups this year. All he's spoken about since he joined was getting us back into Europe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 24 September 2020 Share Posted 24 September 2020 21 minutes ago, Muzzy_Larsson said: Or a side who simply came up against a much better side. Or both? My point was that their end to the season, where they limped out of Europe with 25% of the ball and no shots on target after the 13th minute and gave away 6th to Spurs despite having a seven point cushion over them at the start of July, doesn't necessarily contradict the idea that juggling domestic and European football was a bridge too far for them in the end. I'm not saying they should have walked over Sevilla. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Footballwipe Posted 24 September 2020 Share Posted 24 September 2020 12 hours ago, Dan LCFC said: An absolute disgrace if we don't take this seriously. By all means if we play Sheriff Tiraspol I'm not going to demand we start our best XI, though we absolutely shouldn't be naming an XI anything like tonight as I think even they would beat that. I'm struggling to see the point if we don't take this seriously. This is right. Like, I've made an exception this season for the League Cup and wasn't bothered about us bombing it off. But the Europa League is SIX games minimum. This isn't an inconvenience for one game we can pass us by. This is a rare opportunity for us to compete in Europe and do really bloody well. As others have said, what is actually the point of us qualifying for the Europa League if we're going to not even care? Have we become so elitist that anything but the Champions League is seen as beneath us? Because as has been pointed out, getting to the CL via the EL might turn out to be a far more realistic path than the top four. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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StanSP Posted 24 September 2020 Share Posted 24 September 2020 5 subs allowed in the competition this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twister Posted 24 September 2020 Share Posted 24 September 2020 five subs kept this year no doubt uefa coward again to the bigger clubs uefa have little to no backbone whatsoever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reynard Posted 24 September 2020 Share Posted 24 September 2020 (edited) 15 hours ago, Aus Fox said: I can’t think of a single reason not to take the competition seriously? Let’s rest a few players and go out early, so we might qualify for Europe next season - where is the logic? Because we only have around 14/15 decent players and we need to ensure we are in the premier League next season with ease which if we keep getting injuries to our best and key players will be hard work. Not saying we won't but I expect a lot of changes for each match. Edited 24 September 2020 by reynard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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