Hence your comment I highlighted in bold, yes you’re right. We’ve played a lot of games this season, that includes the following: UECL, that’s forcing us to play Sunday games at 2pm. The League Cup, if we were still in that, then that is a lot of games or in my liking, to many games in one season with that involved. (In which personally I’m not bothered about progression in the League Cup at all.) Then of course, the League itself, which is the most important one.
As I say, Emery might surprise us and put out full first team (but he might not), he might take the FA Cup seriously as I said in my previous post.
Boro have a game against Chelsea after us, so it will be interesting to see if they might go for it when they play us or they might rest players too.