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Original Title: Arsène Wenger when asked if he would sacrificed games during Invincible season by resting players in order to prioritise the chance of winning the Champions League?. "No, because it was always my dream to be champions without losing a game. "
Would you have sacrificed those league games by resting players in order to prioritise the chance of winning the Champions League?
“No, because it was always my dream to be champions without losing a game. My regret is that we went out against Chelsea in the quarter-final, because then it would have been Monaco who did not have a great team, and then Porto in the final. I think it was really there for the taking – that’s my big regret.”
“But I would not have sacrificed the unbeaten record by resting players, but maybe the players would have mentally not been 100 per cent on the league. I would have picked my strongest team for the league games because of how much it meant to go unbeaten.”
“Anyway, nobody has ever proven that resting players in that scenario is a good thing. You have to weigh up the physical benefit against the mental concentration or drop of confidence when you don’t play, it’s not certain that the balance is always in favour of the rest. If they are playing four or five extra games, then yes you have to rest them, but if it is a normal schedule, I don’t think so.”