Pep is smarter and has more deeper resources to bring on, but overall the guy handles his rotation better than anyone imo

Saliba and Jesus missed combine 25 league games, that was a killer

Not a lot of minutes played there.

World Cup also played a role for both teams, Man City actually benefitted more with Haaland rested for almost 6 weeks.

comment by “Delicious” Saliba (U22894)
posted 1 minute ago
Saliba and Jesus missed combine 25 league games, that was a killer
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Jesus missing games didn't hurt us at all. In fact you could argue very easily that his return did.

comment by “Delicious” Saliba (U22894)
posted 18 seconds ago
World Cup also played a role for both teams, Man City actually benefitted more with Haaland rested for almost 6 weeks.
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Odegaard also had that luxury, tbf.

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 30 seconds ago
comment by “Delicious” Saliba (U22894)
posted 1 minute ago
Saliba and Jesus missed combine 25 league games, that was a killer
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Jesus missing games didn't hurt us at all. In fact you could argue very easily that his return did.
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Before WC Jesus was our best player

Nah, he hadn't scored for facking ages before the world cup, his awfulness cost us points.

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 3 minutes ago
Nah, he hadn't scored for facking ages before the world cup, his awfulness cost us points.
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I can see you aren’t his big fan, but Jesus is an excellent by Mikel no doubt about it.

Excellent acquisition*

Is it meant to be games played?

comment by “Delicious” Saliba (U22894)
posted 26 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 3 minutes ago
Nah, he hadn't scored for facking ages before the world cup, his awfulness cost us points.
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I can see you aren’t his big fan, but Jesus is an excellent by Mikel no doubt about it.
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An excellent acquisition he might be, but he's not a prolific striker. That's something we need to look at this summer.

Minutes played/games started would’ve been better to compare

comment by T-SaliBAG (U11806)
posted 59 minutes ago
Is it meant to be games played?
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Yes game played

comment by Arsenal's 3G Network (U21076)
posted 35 minutes ago
comment by “Delicious” Saliba (U22894)
posted 26 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 3 minutes ago
Nah, he hadn't scored for facking ages before the world cup, his awfulness cost us points.
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I can see you aren’t his big fan, but Jesus is an excellent by Mikel no doubt about it.
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An excellent acquisition he might be, but he's not a prolific striker. That's something we need to look at this summer.
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Totally agree

Number of minutes played by players season 22/23 Arsenal FC compared to Manchester City FC
Manchester City
Player. Stats
1. Rodri. 35

I'm sure he's played more than 35 minutes?

comment by newWAYNEorder (U23010)
posted 1 hour, 35 minutes ago
Number of minutes played by players season 22/23 Arsenal FC compared to Manchester City FC
Manchester City
Player. Stats
1. Rodri. 35

I'm sure he's played more than 35 minutes?
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Games go figure

There's an 'edit' article button OP, you should try it out

From memory only Dias has really been out for some time for City during the start of the season.

Mainly had a fully fit squad which is why they were able to rest KDB for quite a few games.

comment by BO$$™ (U6401)
posted 2 minutes ago
From memory only Dias has really been out for some time for City during the start of the season.

Mainly had a fully fit squad which is why they were able to rest KDB for quite a few games.
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The things go hand in hand though, if you have players the manager trusts to rotate in then you're less likely to get injuries in a busy season. We didn't have players Arteta trusted, aside from perhaps the backline which was ironically what got decimated in one horrible match.

So in 34 minutes of football Haaland has broken the premier league scoring record?

Amazing.

Number of minutes would actually be a better stat than number of games. Given there's 5 subs now, you can make far better use of the squad to rotate and keep players fresh.

If you play 60 minutes for all 38 games then you can have a big impact despite only playing about 25 games worth of football.

I think it's more a case that the players are mentally drained rather than physically facked. Like last season, we've had a lot of high energy, high intensity and highly emotional games.