Yeah, Moore came back from illness in mid January but Udogie was available for all but 3 of those games. Whilst Reguilon was out of form he surely could’ve done an adequate job against that infamously bad Southampton team so that Destiny’s hamstrings might’ve had some respite. Plus I recall in the OMT how bewildered many were that despite going 5-0 up in the first half we didn’t give Maddison or Solanke a breather until around 80 minutes.
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True but if you’re going to include Roma and Elfborg in last season’s congestion then surely Frank gets some slack for having to deal with PSG and Dortmund bookending this almost equally appalling run on PL form? Plus we had Villa in FA Cup which is tad more difficult a draw than Tamworth.
At least we had some attackers to rotate between back then and Son + Solanke + Kulusevski + Maddison would all immediately improve this current team which now has absolutely no slack left in attack or midfield.