There are a lot of really good teams in this league.

When you look at the matches teams like Villa, Palace and Sunderland have given us and the matches Brighton, Fulham and Brentford have given City - there genuinely are no easy wins anymore.

PL winner could have a low points total this year.

I'm willing to give Gyokores the benefit of the doubt because he's still coming back to fitness and I don't think a tired Merino was much better in that regard in the first half.

But yeah, completely agree there were a few times where we really could've done with him holding the ball up.

He's been saying that about so many players recently - at this moment in the season we just have too many players that are either injured, just back from injury, or on the brink of an injury because they're playing too many minutes.

The next few games have to be about getting people in condition.

I think Mikel saw our defensive vulnerability and really leant into trying to keep it away from our box by being aggressive in the press and winning it high.

That created the basketball and I think sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.

So it really became about who could finish their chances.

Headline: We're too depleted to be playing cup finals every week

Rising:
📈 Odegaard - doubters silenced
📈 Hincapie - completely exposed, did great, exhausted by the end.
📈 Trossard - the left only seems to work with him

Falling:
📉 Eze - you can't do that in our team
📉 Merino - one game too many

Gabriel Jesus and Max Dowman are not in the squad, they're with the U21s for a friendly against Manchester United at St. George's Park