You replied to a conversation saying we started the match against Bayern missing ten first teamers by saying we now missing 13.
Rashford
Martial
Case
Erikson
Mount
Martinez
I’m struggling to think who else now. And even out of those I’ve listed only 2 or 3 would have started instead of who we lined up with. As I said above, we may have fringe players injured but it’s not as catastrophic as being made out. Worse now that shaw and Maguire went out against Bayern admittedly
Look at our line up last night. There's a good chance every one of those players would have featured if available, either starting or off the bench.
Same against Liverpool and as well as Maguire and Shaw out, Bruno is suspended. Rashford is back though and he'll probably start, not because he deserves it but basically by default.
A better way to look at it is to name the players currently available for the Liverpool game who would be starters if everyone was fit.
Onana
One of Dalot or AWB
Varane
Garnacho or Antony (you'd expect Rashford to play more often than not)
Hojlund.
So 5, less than half the team. Let's add Mainoo as well because he's a genuine talent and alongside better players should be even better. To counter that, Hojlund has no business starting at United right now. But it's not like we are spoilt for choice is it.
So we have a United side with half the starting line up unavailable and of those that are available, up to 3 are under 20.
Come on man, how is that not a major problem? And this has been the case for large parts of the season. The slight glimmer of hope is that we could see a few of them back in the team soon, Bruno is only out for one game and Casemiro and Martinez are apparently back training.