Roy Hodgson has today revealed that he feels the Carling Cup is important to the club, with many supporters feeling that he wouldn't view the competition as a priority, while he also admits he will rest his star players.
Speaking to Sky Sports ahead of the visit of Northampton Town on Wednesday, he said:
"It's a strange game for us in a sense.
"It's one where we definitely need to rotate the squad having played so many games, and with us having to play so many more before the international break.
"But on the other hand it's a competition I take very seriously and I want to have a good run in the competition. We are bothered.
"There's a responsibility on those who replace the big-name players like Steven Gerrard, Fernando Torres, Pepe Reina and Jamie Carragher to name but four."
This should send out a great message of faith to the fringe players like Brad Jones, Suso, Shelvey etc, while he also added:
"To be fair they've shown themselves capable of taking on that burden in a couple of European matches already.
"As we saw in the last game against Steaua Bucharest, Jay Spearing was arguably one of the best players on the field.
"If you never give him a chance, how do you know that?"
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