We will add a net total of 5 games during the course of the regular season (having qualified for Europe we will enter the league cup a round later), from mid September to Early December, if this season's dates are anything to go by and if we perform and advance as we did in the league cup. It isn't the doomsday scenario everyone on Redcafe expects. We will invariably strengthen the squad, have our long term injured players back (Gomez, Ings, Henderson too) and possibly even recall the loanees (Ojo for sure, Flanagan as well) and hopefully we won't be going to Dagastan or Almaty as Europa participants tend to. No African Cup of Nations as well is a welcomed bonus too (Matip and Mane).
If anything we need luck with injuries as most of our front line have faced spells out at one time or another as opposed to worrying about fixture 'congestion'.