The notable words from Manuel Pellegrini in his press conference before Cardiff City trip.
On rotating his centerback three of Angelo Ogbonna, Issa Diop and Fabian Balbuena:
“I said that some players, six or seven players, were playing all the games and of course you can say that, at 30, it is different for Angelo than it is for Diop, who is 21.
“You see Angelo’s performances have been very good and he is in a very good moment. We have recovered Fabian and we will see what happens in the next game.
“Diop has also played a lot of games but in this moment I think that the team must keep it with the same method we have been playing the last games.”
And on the current good vibde the team is in, in 9th place.
“We are in a good moment of the season because we are a team that is playing well and in this case we now also have a bench which can make a difference, starting with Balbuena, and we have also recovered Samir Nasri, so we have important players on the bench and we will see which of them will return to the starting XI.”
“We had a lot of important players with long injuries throughout the season and I think that was one of the merits of this team, to try to be involved when it had so many players for whom it was impossible to play.
“For me, as a manager, it is easier to have big names on the bench to sit behind you than to not have solutions, so this is the moment of the season when we should demonstrate the strong squad that we have.”