There's no guarantee we'll beat Chelsea even if we use our first team. Their players will be much fresher because they have a squad big enough to rotate. Even a player of the quality of Mata is struggling to get games. The other option for us is to rotate a bit in the league, but with only the likes of Ryo, Gnabry and Bendtner to call on it doesn't look too good.

It doesn't make sense to sacrifice the league or CL while we're still in it. What kind of message does that send?