Surprised not to see more rotation here, especially Endo for Gravy, Quanseh a rare start, etc. Hope we use the 5 subs to get Endo, Q, and Harvey some minutes.
I presume it’s something to do with the other teams in the top 8 playing each other which means that we will go through with a win (enough of the other challengers will drop points no matter what).
EDIT: (second edit applied because I confused the Milan teams)
These are the teams who we could potentially move out of reach of with 3 points tonight. Of these (points in brackets),
Inter (13) play Leverkusen (10) tonight. Arsenal (10) play (10) Monaco tomorrow night.
Next week, Villa (10) play Monaco (10), Leverkusen (10) play Atlético (9).
In the last week, Inter (13) play Monaco (10).
So not mathematically guaranteed.
In action tonight are:
Atalanta (11) vs Real Madrid (LOL)
Leverkusen (10) vs Inter (13)
Club Brugge (7) vs Sporting (10)
Shakhtar Donetsk (4) vs Bayern Munich (9)
Leipzig (LOL) vs Villa (10).
The best case scenario would be everyone dropping points where possible, but that would only be 6 teams dropping points, meaning there would still be two left who can catch up. I’m not sure what the tie-breaks are.