Teams have had momentum before. It hasn’t allowed them to get plus 95 points (consecutively for City and probably Liverpool after this season). Yeah City have had some ACL injuries, and Liverpool had Gomez and AOC with leg breakers as you say but where’s the fatigue injuries? Where’s the hamstring pulls, the calf strains, the type that used to see some of our best players miss games, the type that United are now suffering with across their front line, that Kante has only just come back from, that Messi seems to be hobbling off with every week. You don’t see City or Liverpool picking these up barely at all (especially Liverpool who have now gone close to 2 seasons without any serious absence to any of Van Dijk Salah Mane Firmino.
These players have done back to back CL campaigns up to the final mixed in with a world cup year and an AFCON. Spurs took about a quarter of last season to get over the World Cup and were resting some players from the start. We got hit massively at the start of 14/15 on the back of it. You hit last season playing a team that would have had minimal time off at all and flogged them every single game up until the CL final again and there wasn’t even a hint of fatigue at any point. Away to Barca, away to Newcastle and then Barca at home in the space of a few days. Barca rested their whole first 11 whilst yours played at Newcastle. You then just ran over them like it was nothing, men v boys, world class players bull dozed by players who were on the back of 4 games in about ten days yet were physically on a different level. Absolutely ridiculous.
