We missed Pogba, Martial, Rashford, Matic, Bailly, Tuanzebe and Lindelof (among others I'm forgetting) for large swathes of this season pre-COVID. We've started an awful lot of games with Lingard, Pereira and Mata (one game with any of those is too many).
These injuries cost us, with draws/losses against Palace, Southampton, West Ham, Newcastle, Bournemouth, Sheffield, Villa, Everton, Burnley etc. costing us massive amounts of points - our post-COVID almost-fully fit squad (plus an increasingly brilliant Greenwood and new signing Bruno) with almost no injuries have swatted the likes of these teams aside with breathtaking ease.
With our decade-long awful injury history, can we finish this season strongly and go into the next one with a better injury record? Why do we fall behind the likes of Liverpool in this regard? They'd struggle for top 4 with the issues we have.
Do we have to get rid of the likes of Bailly, Jones, Tuanzebe et al who are always injured? Is Ole's focus on fitness slowly helping our team become healthier and more injury-resistant after five years of plodding around the pitch under old school dinosaurs?
These injuries cost us, with draws/losses against Palace, Southampton, West Ham, Newcastle, Bournemouth, Sheffield, Villa, Everton, Burnley etc. costing us massive amounts of points - our post-COVID almost-fully fit squad (plus an increasingly brilliant Greenwood and new signing Bruno) with almost no injuries have swatted the likes of these teams aside with breathtaking ease.
With our decade-long awful injury history, can we finish this season strongly and go into the next one with a better injury record? Why do we fall behind the likes of Liverpool in this regard? They'd struggle for top 4 with the issues we have.
Do we have to get rid of the likes of Bailly, Jones, Tuanzebe et al who are always injured? Is Ole's focus on fitness slowly helping our team become healthier and more injury-resistant after five years of plodding around the pitch under old school dinosaurs?