Quote Originally Posted by IBK View Post
No - but you can play them more sensibly. Wenger is not bold enough to rest Kosceilny by playing Vermaelen - who might have been kept fresher and more interested by being played a bit, even without injury. Wenger kept playing Ramsey - even when he was clearly in the red zone - when an Ox experiment in the middle with Ozil still controlling our shape might have been a better introduction than lately. Gnabry - who had done nothing wrong when he did play - could have been used to relieve the first teamers. And you can rest players by judicious substitutions, but you ain't going to do it at 70 or 80 mins with the team under pressure....
I agree with everything you say, but i just don't believe it would have made a great deal more difference in terms of our overall points. I think the media like to pretend that it's all a tactical chess game so as give people hope weighed against the fact that 95 times out of 100 the club with the most money and the best players will win football matches. Especially when you consider the main area where we have suffered this season is away at the top sides, and for me the small changes and margins you mention weren't enough to bring us anything against those sides...a little bit of rotating here and there didn't change the fact that our squad is too small to have resisted injury.