If Lallana is going to be out a lot injured, then our reliance on Ox as the replacement for Coutinho is likely to cost us. He is a bit of a downgrade as it is, but that might not be too significant if we still have the the rest of the front 4. But just purely in terms of numbers in the attacking positions we will come up short if one of those 4 is consistently unavailable.
Even 1 more injury would have us needing to play Ings, Solanke or Woodburn. 2 more injuries and it is 2 of them and those players are almost certainly not ready to cope with that ( even assuming they are fundamentally good enough).
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