First of all the Gunners are likely to field
a very weakened team in the next round.
Not exact matches
Arsenal will be lucky to finish top four, as Everton are also buying a
very good
team and are trying to
weaken us at the same time.
That being said, I think he'll pick a
weakened team Thursday night, given we're at home, our opponent is
very poor, and we have a massive game at the weekend.
For, the Arsenal
team he has and will play against Forest in this 3rd round tie at the City Ground is not a
weaken team as thought by Gary Birtles but a
very strong
team that will put Forest to the sword in the game.
The so - called «
weakened team» for Man United did not really materialise even though Jose Mourinho did make 8 changes from Thursday's Europa League semi-final, and also included one
very promising youth player.
Managers of top
teams began to treat it
very much as a secondary priority behind the cash - raking goal of Champion's League qualification and began to field «
weakened»
teams made up of squad or younger players.