Aaah we have a misunderstanding of my comment to resolve.its kind of loopy phrasing so mu fault there. I am intending to say that the toughest feat for us/ETH in winning the FA Cup is not overcoming City, but rather ourselves and our physical and mental exhaustion.
As for playing a lot of games, I still consider that a major issue because this team isn't used to playing that many matches in the style of ETH and we have only had one season to get there physically. It'll take another season at the least to be able to get there. I made a comment elsewhere as comparison that it was easier for Brighton to go from Potter's style to De Zerbi than it was for our players to go from Oles to ETHs.
Well honestly for me it should be other way around, if there is a match that the player can give 200% while our opponent still have to reverse their power, it's the FA Cup final. It's less about ETH but more about our players and their tendency to downed tool. We needs to play as aggressively as Liverpool during our SAF era, most of the time they gave us a hard game no matter how much stronger we are.
Yeah…but playing midweek fixtures every week for 5 months straight is not an excuse. To dismiss this and call it an excuse is plain factually incorrect
But the quote that I quoted is not about "playing midweek fixtures every week for 5 months straight" or "schedule issue"? When ETH called out the FA for the poor schedule I defended him.
The point is up to the FA final, both team played similar amount of games, and they even have to reverse some strength to play the CL final.
I don't know what's your point is honestly. I said saying "
insane number of games moreso than the opponents" is an excuse because we actually only played 3 more games than Man City, which is actually factually correct. If you don't agree then feel free to prove how did we played an insane number of games more than Man City?
It's like you imagine an argument and then try to win that argument? Congratulation I guess?