The sooner this season ends the better because the facts are getting in the way.
Whether it's bad luck, training errors, equipment faults, management inexperience or some sort of hoodoo, the simple facts are that you can't play to your true game when half of your squad is missing.
For about the 12th game, even if we had half of our injured players available tonight then things would have been completely different and peoples viewpoints as well.
Yet again there was little in the way of a refresh from the bench and that's why the deadwood has started to creep back into the squad, in turn the likelihood of mistakes increases.
In comparison to our first game of the season where we had our first choice defence and a midfield 3 of Bruno, Joelinton and Tonali, our 5 changes saw Wilson, Barnes, Longstaff, Murphy and Anderson come on and the likes of Livrimento, Targett and Lascelles unused subs not to mention that the likes of Miley and Hall couldn't even get in the squad. Willock was injured.