I had mixed feelings about winning this game before kickoff and during the game especially early on. I was not bothered that much that they were leading 2-0 at that time. I thought the Semi Final 2 legs were a good riddance. Not that I don't want to win the Cup, but just that the journey is exhausting without unlimited funds and having to concentrate on the PL and CL with a tight schedule is a big ask. The PL fucked us by not postponing any fixture for us and with our COVID absentees and with AFCON coming, it doesn't help us.
However, after we won in the manner we did, I'm pumped up and want to see this amazing squad and staff do as much as we can in the circumstances we are in.
Currently, our Fixture List stands like this
26th Dec Sunday Leeds (H) - PL
28th Dec Tuesday Leicester (A) - PL
2nd Jan Sunday Chelsea (A) - PL
4th Jan Tuesday Arsenal (A) - LC
9th Jan Sunday Shrewsbury (H) - FAC
11th Jan Tuesday Arsenal (H) - LC
15th Jan Saturday Brentford (H) - PL
I read that Salah could stay until the Chelsea fixture, which would help. But we still have 3 combinations of Sunday-Tuesday games which is madness. We need to rotate heavily and have to pick and choose where we are going strong, where we are loosening a bit and where we are completely going 2nd/3rd string.
I would go like this - weakened lineup against Leeds, go strong against Leicester and Chelsea, slightly weakened lineup against Arsenal, completely 2nd/3rd string team for Shrewsbury and then go full-strength (without Salah and Mane) against Arsenal and Brentford.