I might be wrong but I don't think West Ham have had anything close to the injury situation we've had this season?
And no, we're not relegation fodder. That's why we're 3pts off 4th
Well Antonio has been out injured several times. Other than that they've managed to keep their 'best XI' intact.
I don't put their best XI as drastically better, on paper, than our team with one or two players out, though.
Anyway, it was just an example. Leicester's injury situation has been really bad this season but shows that they have much better strength in depth than us. Ironically enough, if we can pick up two wins and they keep slipping, we could catch them!
I'm not here to be doom and gloom. I'm just fed up of this insinuation that we can't possibly question Carlo. Like I said, one shot on target last night (not our goal) in a game which was an absolute must-win for us, against a side with their two best attackers out, their best creative player just returning from the bench and their 'best' (I say that loosely) centre-backs not playing either. They also have a Europa League semi next week.
We had all of our best attacking players fit, albeit Dom just coming back from injury and just looked understandably a little off the pace. We had a sluggish and laborious midfield, which for some reason included Gomes over Davies who, along with Allan, had given us a good defensive platform against Spurs and allowed James and Gylfi to get on the ball higher up the pitch.
There's positives to take - defensively we were very good (albeit, against a weak attack), bar that one late chance we gave up at the end, and Godfrey and Holgate both played well. But we've got some seriously decent attacking players yet hardly play to their strengths. Digne is our second-most creative player yet we have him out on the left wing on his own, having to pin 50-yard crosses right onto the heads/feet of our players. Why don't we have him being able to actually link up with someone, and drive into the box? The last time we did that - and one of the only times I can recall this season - we got that goal against Palace.