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Just now, Soylent Brown said:

Wijnaldum is fine as a back-up for Fabinho's role, and for sub appearances in games that we're winning and looking to control

That was probably the whole idea. You went into this game with a solid 2-0 lead. There are no extra points for winning the second leg of the quarter final with a 3 goal margin, or coming out on top of a shoot out contest.

The gameplan was, control the game, score an away goal if possible, advance to the next round in a professional manner, focus onthe next game.

And it's 2-0 now.

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Milner and Gini haven't been playing well lately but this was the perfect game to use their legs and allow others to rest.  I'm just hoping Fabinho is feeling no fatigue from all these games because he didn't play all that many earlier in the season.

With Fabinho and Keita (recently) looking settled in the team and Ox returning, we have a large pool of MFs for rotation.  It's noticeable that we have far fewer injury absences for muscle strains this season compared to recent years.

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Ha, the quadrouple dream is over. City were the better side by miles but they shot themselves in the foot with all the soft away goals conceded.

Hopefully City lose their heads over this in the next few league games.

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