I do think he has some mitigation on the injury front. He’s had to cope with long term losses of important players, short term injuries (like we all do), a nutcase, AKA Romero and also juggling the Champions League with the Premier schedule.
We turned to shite when Rodri was injured against the Tarquins in September 24, Spuds have lost, Maddison, Kudus, Kulusevski Richarlison, and Bentancur plus recent injuries to Udogie, Danso, Porro and Bergvall and Spence just made it back from injury last night.
That’s some injury list, doubt if any team copes with equivalent losses, think of us losing the equivalent and having to play the Leverkusen lineup, we may have coped better but who knows.