Our fitness regime and injuries

Ludens the Red

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Rashford looks as though he's been playing through injury ever since he did his back last year. No chance of him getting an extended break anytime soon with the euros and WC in consecutive years either. It'll be summer 23 before he has a summer off.
Yeah does he seem to be fragile at the moment but To be fair he was basically off between March and July.
 

rollingstoned1

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a larger squad and willingness to rotate also plays an underrated role. he wasn't trusting any squad players post lockdown before the new season and that affected us in the first few matchdays too.
 

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a larger squad and willingness to rotate also plays an underrated role. he wasn't trusting any squad players post lockdown before the new season and that affected us in the first few matchdays too.
The way Ole has rotated the squad has been brilliant.

Pogba has only started playing regularly,
Shaw and Telles were rotated earlier in the season
James, Mata all played games early season
Martial, Greenwood, Cavani have all been rotated
Lindelof is being rotated now too
McFred get rotated with diff midfielders.

The 3 constants are Maguire, Rashford and Maguire.
 

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The way Ole has rotated the squad has been brilliant.

Pogba has only started playing regularly,
Shaw and Telles were rotated earlier in the season
James, Mata all played games early season
Martial, Greenwood, Cavani have all been rotated
Lindelof is being rotated now too
McFred get rotated with diff midfielders.

The 3 constants are Maguire, Rashford and Maguire.
agreed, if anything the signings in the summer addressed our squad even if they didn't our first team. Looking mainly at sancho there. anyhow it saves us from using lingard and pereira in areas where we now have genuine quality while Shaw has gotten the competition he needed to kick on. I felt he could have used Ighalo the way he is using Cavani now to finish last year but i'm sure he had his reasons not to do so.