I have a few issues with this.
Firstly, you have assumed we will lose v City. Is it likely we lose? Yes. Should we assume that we WILL lose? No. If we did that we may as well not turn up at all some days. Where is the whole ‘to dare is to do’ mentality? It’s about being brave, about going for it come what may. And if we do lose then at least we will have given it a good go.
To say that the players will be injured. Guess what, same players could be injured in training. Should we skip training? I mean if Romero tackles Son in training and injures him then we e screwed. So quick, let’s keep Son away from training, best keep Romero away too you know just in case.
Then you talk about our chances being massively increased against the other two sides. We could have 95% chance to win and still lose against each of those sides. It’s about turning up on the day, doing best we can and then hoping we get a good result in either but preferably both games.
We should also prioritise each game at a time and give it the best we can. I get thst some matches might seem easier on paper but how often has it been the case where we’ve secured results in matches we thought we would lose? And lost matches that we really ought to have won?
Let’s go at City. Let them worry about us and let’s see what can happen.
Maybe your approach might prove to have been a sensible pragmatic approach with hindsight but this isn’t a Conte or Mourinho pragmatic Spurs. This is a go out full at it, give it our best and see what happens. And having been bored by those two, I wouldn’t have it any other way whatever the end outcome.
