I would imagine avoiding relegation is most important to them. I don't see Bilic trying to win this cup as he probably won't be the Spam manager come the final, or semi final come to that. Get it out of the way so he can concentrate on the league if he has any sense.
An interesting additional note from Mauricio Pochettino on Danny Rose, who came on as a sub at Real Madrid last week. Rose could start against West Ham tomorrow night, which would be the England full-back's first since he was injured at Sunderland way back in January. "We need to wait until tomorrow but in my head it is for him to start," Poch explains. "We are resting players because they need to rest and we don't want to take risks."
Vorm Dier, Foyth, Davies KWP, Winks, Sissoko, Rose Alli, Son Llorente Gazza, Tripps, Aurier, GK, Georgiou, Eriksen, Kane
Dembele back in first team training. Wanyama has been 'being assessed by a specialist' for the past week. No idea what's going on there but I'm majorly pissed off about it.
There are LOTS of tickets still available for this game. I was surprised at just how many. £20 for Club Wembley and £10 for Under-18's. Come On You Spurs. Let's try and fill the soulless, red seated bastard.
The wording to me implies he's not going to be back anytime soon, I reckon he'll likely be out until the new year. One year, Spurs will have just that slight bit of luck go for us when it comes to having no (or at least minimal!) injuries to key players, when it comes around, it'll be a glorious occasion.
I'm a tad concerned about something tonight. At the moment there is a strong winning momentum surging through and around Spurs and I'm worried that a second string Spurs might lose and it passes onto the first team for Saturday. Even though this cup isn't a priority it's a must win match.
Apparently, according to Pep, there's a problem with old pig's bladder for the Carabao Cup........ "If we played with a different ball he would break the record, to score with that ball is a miracle. It's not Nike, Adidas I don't know, it's a different brand. It's unacceptable to play with the ball." "It is not a serious ball for a professional game, I can say that after we win. If we don't win and I say that it is an excuse.We get one day or two days [to use it in training] but if a ball is bad it is bad two days, one week, one month, one year, two years. If it is bad, it is bad." Is there a problem or, as usual, is Pep talking balls?.............. I'll get me coat.
The last round against Barnsley was utter ****e, but I didn't notice anything odd about the ball. Toure's slagged it off too, so this could either be a City thing to act as an excuse or a genuine issue. The third option is that he and City are sponsored by Nike and it's a Mitre ball...
Apparently the Mitre ball is less round than the Adidas and Nike balls. I hope Pochettino has factored this into the criteria for his team selection tonight.
That is a rugby ball RDBD. Might be a good idea after the melee at the end of the last match against the Scam.
That suggests he hasn't done so far.... As far as I can see he's done bloody well on the occasions he's been called on so far. Happy for that level of performance to continue
