Presumably Norwich being shit with a heavily rotated team being an example of our fatigue.
The “X looks tired” with no data to support it is the new “Y wants it more”, “Z doesn’t care enough”, etc. It’s lazy and unsubstantiated. There’s so much stuff out there publicly, it would great if people would spend two mins supporting their arguments.
People are lamenting the Palace performance but if we play like that across the 90 across bottom half sides across the season, we’d likely be second in the league. We created enough and conceded little enough to win that 70-80% of the time – and that’s being held up as a bad performance!
The data to support it was less possession compared to the first few games after Covid, and players like Bruno covering much less distance and playing well below par. You can see by your eyes that he's running less, his passing has got a lot worse and he's generally not effecting the game anywhere near like he did at the start. I'm worried we are going to run him into the ground when we need him the most.
You use Arsenal as an example but they've not played the same team every game for the last 2 weeks. They've rotated a lot more, and look fresher for it.
While I don't blame Ole for sticking with the same team (we were flying) you have to admit performances have dropped off. Hopefully i'm completely wrong, but i'm expecting Ole to put out the same team that played 2 days ago. Chelsea have rested for 5 days and will have the legs come the end of the match.
Maybe i'm being a pessimist but I can see us having a tough match here, losing and then going into the west ham game with 2 days rest against West Ham who have 5 days. If we drop points against West Ham we can kiss goodbye top 4, and personally I'd take top 4 this summer over an FA cup.
TLDR; If we chase both we could end up with neither and it'll be a failed season.