To be fair, he was poor, but being tired is different. Maybe mentally tired if anything, and could ideally do with a break as you said. Unfortunately, our attack is so poor that we couldn't even get away with giving him a proper rest in the League Cup to a Championship side.That would be from him looking, you know, tired?
He even admitted himself he had a bad game, on his instagram page. Why are you insisting the opposite is true?