Andre Villas-Boas has warned that his players' careers may be wrecked because of a fixture pile-up brought on by the Football League. The Football League has decided that Tottenham can play Aston Villa inside the third round on the Capital One Cup on Tuesday, just 2 days after the north London club face Cardiff in the Barclays Premier League.
Provided that Spurs play Tromso inside Europa League this Thursday, Villas-Boas' squad face a fastpaced duration of three games in six days.
The Portuguese understands the desire to schedule the Cardiff game on Sunday, but he's perplexed as to why his squad will have to play at Villa Park a couple of days later, especially when some Capital Single serving fixtures are taking place on Wednesday.
Although he's got a big squad at his disposal, Villas-Boas fears most of his players could suffer serious injury due to the close proximity between Cardiff and Villa games. Villas-Boas vented his anger in the Premier League two years ago when his Chelsea side were required to play Wolves 2 days whenever they lost against Bayer Leverkusen from the Champions League.
On this occasion it does not take Football League which is in his sights since it is the organisation that organises the Capital Single serving. The Football League defended the scheduling, pointing out so it will be unsafe to move Spurs' game to Wednesday, when West Brom and Birmingham will also be playing within the Capital Single serving.
Both of those clubs will also be playing teams (Arsenal and Swansea) that are in action on Sunday also. It is usually standard practice avoiding Spurs and Arsenal having away games on a single day for anxiety about trouble to their respective matches.
Villas-Boas can take comfort through the fact he will have the capacity to rest a number of players for your visit of Group K outsiders Tromso. The Norwegian side only made it by way of the group stages from the competition for the reason that team they lost to in the play-off stages - Besiktas - were disqualified for match fixing.
Villas-Boas are going to be without Aaron Lennon while he remains to be struggling while Romanian defender Vlad Chiriches is, remarkably, still to obtain a work papers although his transfer from Steaua Bucharest was completed 3 weeks ago.
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