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since we are guaranteed top of the table to advance to knockouts and Valencia have no chance of moving on even if they beat us, the result of this match against Valencia is just about utterly meaningless to both sides.
which means that we can rest our players heading into the critical Premiership match against Arsenal this Saturday, whereas l'Arse will be shooting for a victory in their CL match against Steaua Bucharest on Wednesday the 12th and will have to play most of their top men.
Sidwell, Shevchenko, Pizarro, -- this match is made for each of these lads to play 90. since Essien will be still be serving his league suspension he'll probably get a run in for this match. doesn't look like Ferreira, Carvalho or Malouda will be back, though. certainly our two reserves eligible for the group stages -- Hutchison and Sawyer -- should feature. maybe Ballack could have been back for this, but remember he's not on the roster for the group stages. i'm guessing we'll see something like this:
------------Carlo-----------------
Belletti---Alex---Ben Haim---Bridge
-----Sidwell-------Essien----------
---SWP--------------Kalou--------
-------Sheva-----Pizarro----------
with Lee Sawyer getting on the pitch in attack in the second half, Hutchison resting a defender.
if i were in charge, the following players wouldn't see the pitch at all: Lampard, Terry, Cech, Ashley Cole, Joe Cole, Mikel (for fear of getting a red card for no reason), and Maka.
which means that we can rest our players heading into the critical Premiership match against Arsenal this Saturday, whereas l'Arse will be shooting for a victory in their CL match against Steaua Bucharest on Wednesday the 12th and will have to play most of their top men.
Sidwell, Shevchenko, Pizarro, -- this match is made for each of these lads to play 90. since Essien will be still be serving his league suspension he'll probably get a run in for this match. doesn't look like Ferreira, Carvalho or Malouda will be back, though. certainly our two reserves eligible for the group stages -- Hutchison and Sawyer -- should feature. maybe Ballack could have been back for this, but remember he's not on the roster for the group stages. i'm guessing we'll see something like this:
------------Carlo-----------------
Belletti---Alex---Ben Haim---Bridge
-----Sidwell-------Essien----------
---SWP--------------Kalou--------
-------Sheva-----Pizarro----------
with Lee Sawyer getting on the pitch in attack in the second half, Hutchison resting a defender.
if i were in charge, the following players wouldn't see the pitch at all: Lampard, Terry, Cech, Ashley Cole, Joe Cole, Mikel (for fear of getting a red card for no reason), and Maka.
