DubaiSpur
Ian Walker
I am worried that we looked completely empty after 60 minutes. Have we done enough fitness work during the break? They definitely looked fitter than us in the second half. Or maybe we just became too defensive being one goal up. I am not sure Mourinho made the correct subs either. Bergwijn and Lamela didn't look like our most tired players.
Quite apart from our fitness and physio staff being suspect for a long time now (I seriously think we should bin them all and start over, given our injury and fitness woes) - they looked fitter, because their squad is better. They brought on Pogba and Greenwood, and we had no response for 15 minutes because our only real threats on the bench were Lo Celso and Gedson. And after those two were brought on, they could still throw on Ighalo, Matic and Bailly.
I'd wager we would have looked fitter too if, in our second period of subs, we could bring on Dele and Lucas. Probably more dangerous, too.