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Fatigue it's a thing but it's not an excuse for Manchester United in this particular case but yeah it's thing if a team plays consecutive seasons, performing at a highh level; dominating a league, playing the latter stages of cup competitions. Specially if you win one as then you end up playing extra games like when winning the UCL and then having to play the clubs world cup, etc.
That's the normal circumstance but it's hardly the only one possible. There's a reason competitions try to avoid the kind of fixture congestion that we're seeing right now, and saw at the back end of last season. Playing an above average amount of games for a prolonged period of time can cause fatigue, just as playing an exceptional amount of games in a compressed period of time. Fatigue in international tournaments is evident as you go through the competition, and teams have won tournaments in large part due to strategies we'll designed to combat that alone. Spain, Italy and others have that winter break for a reason too. Dismissing scheduling as a factor in fitness is ridiculous given entire conditioning schedules are built around optimising fitness peaks to deal with exactly that challenge, only this time it's been amped up several levels.