Even tonight we had some people missing through injury.
Trapattoni does, however, have decisions to make over his defenders with Richard Dunne still missing through injury.
With Laurent Koscielny and Per Mertesacker missing through injury and illness respectively, in came Gabriel and Calum Chambers.
The one time I got to play Liverpool as a manager it was with a second division team who had three centre-forwards missing through cruciates.
The complication for Taylor is that all those runs have come in a team missing – through injury or rotation – a regular such as Joe Root or Ben Stokes.
We've got seven missing through injury, illness and suspension and it just shows you the value of having a tight-knit squad".
Imagine, then, the shock if this star of the show should turn out to be missing through much of our history.
We will miss him, and we will miss the ones missing through injury as well [Raphaël Varane and Lassana Diarra among others].
It wasn't quite a performance of Atomic Ant proportions, but with Giovinco missing through injury Altidore stepped into the void as his team's difference-maker.
Arsenal had nine players missing through injury against Dynamo Kiev, with perhaps only three - Emmanuel Adebayor, Bacary Sagna and Samir Nasri - returning on Sunday.
They had gone down for this crucial match in the tightest of the Heineken Cup pools with a host of key players missing through injury.
