There's a universe where the Mourinho-Tottenham hold on against Liverpool, too; or the Akanji foul on Vic is given or Son doesn't give away a penalty when he's asked to play LB...we can't just blame the injuries - AP's tactics have not helped one bit. Richie fair enough, but the others...no, they've not been helped by having to complete so many sprints (and long sprints if your LB /RB/LW/RW) or VdV having to cover the defensively invisible MF and a wandering-Romero.
of course you can blame the injuries, last year eddie howe got a huge amount of injury sympathy and everybody set aside his results when they dropped down to 11th
the idea there was that everything would get back to normal when the team got players back