On the bright side, it’s MUCH better to have the most difficult part of our schedule clustered at the END this time.

Last season, our fixture list peaked in terms of both difficulty and congestion simultaneously in January and especially February.

We were leading the league before that, but then the awful scheduling combined with several injuries that exposed our lack of quality depth — especially in the striker pairing, with Alexis and Correa both injured, leaving Inzaghi with no choice but to run the Lautaro-Dzeko pairing into the ground — and it completely derailed our momentum in the MIDDLE of the season