It was easy to make sense of Ange Postecoglou's decision to leave Heung-min Son, Dejan Kulusevski and Djed Spence on the bench for Wednesday's 1-0 defeat to Manchester City.
Son, 32, had started the 10 previous matches and has appeared jaded for most of the season, while Kulusevski has featured in every game this term and recently admitted he was going into some fixtures at “40-50 per cent” during the club's mid-winter injury crisis.
