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I know, I just wanted to argue.

We have better depth than several of the teams left in the competition, also.

Real Madrid also twice recently fielded a weakened team against Barcelona in the Copa del Rey. A lot depends on what the ongoing objectives are.

I take it you don't watch much cup football?

Do you think that would be a good idea?

It's the same people making the same posts each time, I think they actually enjoy it.

I'm pretty sure we'd have ground them down in extra time, but we made one mistake and they scored. That shows our approach and tactics in both games against them was planned well. We couldn't do anything as an attacking force simply because of the changed personnel.

Good comparison, Coppa match with Gio-Quag up front.

I know what the joke is, but it does have some truth here.

You joke but it is almost farcical now, 1995. Our best bet was probably in the first couple of years we returned to Serie A, we would have been delighted to win it then.

It shows our level. Even with a flat performance and those changes they had one goalscoring chance, and that was from a mistake.

The best thing is that Totti is so dumb he genuinely believes it, which is only good for us.

Meh, that's all our performance deserves. BTW, was the Peluso goal a good one or not?

I have faith in our players, yep even the flimsy ones like Giovinco and Isla, to turn it on in these big domestic games. But as Red said, the problem of unfamiliarity is the biggest issue. I don't think we'll see much of a problem in the centre of defence, but on the wings and the striking duo...

No locals got it on?

I'm just going to grab a beer and hope for the best on this one.

I notice that Sky Sports UK are not only showing this but all of the Coppa games involving the big teams, in consecutive days until Thursday, and then Napoli next week.

Seems like a good one-off game for Sky to pick up, the two best teams in the league in a competition which doesn't have national rights already sold off.

Winning the Coppa and finishing second for Roma would be greeted with scenes reminiscent of Julius Caesar returning from Alesia.