True but you can't just bin everyone as we still need to rotate. You also cannot get sharpness without proper minutes. Bringing someone off the bench with 25 mins to go and 3 goals up isn't a fair judgement of what they are capable of, nor gonna help them get going. Rashford for example was bad at first but played into form.
If we did that, we'd be a minimum 4-6 points worse off guaranteed, and we'd be facing having to have all our eggs in the Europa League basket. Again.
Like I said, in an ideal world we'd have likely seen a lot more rotation. It's not like Ole stuck to one lineup all throughout his time here. He has rotated plenty of times. He gave these players a chance vs Norwich and they proceeded to shit the bed. He can't trust them at this point.
The issue is that literally every game has been crucial, there just hasn't been that opportunity to let players like Fred, James and McTominay play themselves into form. Not least when the players they are under were playing so much better. Yes, Rashford played himself into form, but the upside of Rashford playing himself into form is that he's Rashford! James playing himself into form, for example, would be slightly better than an out-of-form Rashford, and that's not intended as a slight on James.
This is why I say lockdown has fecked us, cos it came at a time when everyone in the squad from Bruno and Martial, to McTominay and Fred were playing well and were in good form and rhythm. That all had to go back to zero when restart happened and the squad players, largely because of the circumstances, just have not had the opportunity to catch up.
Also, lest we forget, this is an atypical run-in. Where the games were once spread out over the course of 8-10 weeks, we are doing them in 4-6. No fitness coach at the outset of this season was planning to be in this position, but here we are. Unfortunately for us, our very small squad is being stretched to the limit, and hopefully it should have enough to come through the final game.