"In the old format, there were some dead rubber games."
Spurs head coach Ange Postecoglou said this, Idman.biz reports referring to the Football London website.
The experienced specialist touched upon the new format of the Europa League before tomorrow's match against Qarabag: "We've got a squad, a squad of players that we went into the season hoping to play 50+ games in a year and you're not going to expect players to play all of them. You're hoping for around 35 games. We don't really want to rotate hugely for each game.
I think I said before that in the old format there were some dead rubber games because teams knew who was going through. This way there could be more in games and eight different teams with eight different styles. The main thing is that we're in it."
The match to be held in London will start at 23:00 Baku time.
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