[theo_luddite]

Our Cup 11 beat both Leicester's and Blunderland's Cup 11's, even if it was on penalties. Our first 11 would not have beaten Citeh. They had enough in their starting 11 and on the bench to make sure that wasn't going to happen. We picked from our first team squad - they picked half their side from their Yoof squad despite having a 25 man Prima Donna League squad and similar for Europe. Had they picked only from ther 'first team squads' like we did, it would have been Good Night Vienna by half time. Our 'first 11', whatever that is this season, were battered by Bradford and couldn't score against Burton. We put players on in the 2nd half that have played more often and scored goals in the League or the Cup(s). The closest we got was hitting the post when it was almost too late to matter. Citeh's back 4 played something like 400+ passes sideways, mostly in our half. Do you really think we'd have taken The Blue Mancs to the cleaners and then had time to recover before today's trip to Exeter for tomorrow if we'd started the same 11 that started against Burton? Well we couldn't anyway - Alves is out injured for a few months and you still need to have possession of the ball to take it to teams like this.

Wagner introduced Town to the press, "Gegenpressing" when he came on board. It worked brilliantly until Spurs passed their way through us in two passes and made us look like a bunch of schoolboys. A team like Arsenal can do 70% possession against Citeh, and still draw 1-1. Right now, Citeh are a tad out of our League. The promoted Prima Donna Clubs and those in the bottom half less so. Had we got one of them, we'd have given them more of a game. For what it's worth, Exeter's manager was there and thought we had a brilliant game plan that kept us in the game until their 2nd goal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t21NbEiStpY