Resting and coping

Morning all. Welcome to a brand new week.

I don’t know if this is at all interesting, or meaningful in any way, but the list of players who didn’t feature at Mansfield caught my eye. We were without David Raya, Ben White, William Saliba, Gabriel, Myles Lewis-Skelly, Martin Odegaard, Mikel Merino, Declan Rice and Martin Zubimendi – just 2 short of a starting XI, all made up from defenders and midfielders.

At the other end of the pitch, every single one of our listed attacking players took part...