Match Reaction vs West Bromwich Albion (COC tie).

[Penguin]

No way should we throw this cup comp away. Realistically we won't win the league this year despite our glowing start.

We aren't winning the champions league.

COC and FA cup are our best hope.

I agree with those points but we have a thread-bare squad with virtually the same XI playing in 3 other competitions. If we use them in the COC too we're just going to run them into the ground, or worse giving them a big risk of picking up injuries.

We can't even afford to rotate in the league/CL since there's such a big gap in quality in our reserves.

Physioroom has all of our injuries back by the Chelsea game, barring AOC who is out till Nov and Diabanogo who are, of course, listed as having "no return date".

Physioroom is rarely right on return dates (for Arsenal ones at least, I don't bother checking anyone else's). If it's based on our estimates it's definitely wrong