Alex Kirkland

Not much time.

Let's see how many of those players who've been rested tonight

are rested sufficiently to come back in for that game.

Quite a few of them, I think, will be.

And what will we see?

Will we see radical changes in terms of the team's shape, the team's selection, the style?

Will we see improvements?

Will it be more of the same?

Because I think part of the thinking in terms of getting rid of Alonso was that we've still got all these trophies up for grabs.

We've still got La Liga, Champions League, Copa del Rey.

Well, one of those is gone now.

And so now it's only two left.

And yet in the league title race, they can't afford to drop many more points because Barcelona could be before too long out of reach.

Yeah, I mean, that pressure was there already.

Maybe it does increase a little bit more, but I'm not sure how much it can increase because it was already massive.

This is one of the most high-pressure jobs in world football.

And talking about the players, it's going to be really interesting to see what changes we see and what looks like their attitude on the pitch and their performance.

We know the names of the players who weren't happy with Xabi Alonso.

We've talked about it.

We've reported it.