Four games. Eleven days. Two Champions League knockouts. Does this squad have the legs?

Tonight at the Metropolitano. Fulham at home on Saturday. Atlético back at the Emirates on Tuesday. West Ham across town the Sunday after. Four matches in eleven days, two of them halves of a European semi-final, two of them league games we cannot afford to slip on. Win all four and the title is functionally over — City can run the table and still come up short. Drop a single league point in the run and the gap is gone, because we are level with them on goal difference and behind on goals scored.

This is the stretch the squad was built for. Older, deeper, fitter than the side that wobbled at the same stage two seasons back. There is no rotation that protects everyone — the spine plays the four, the keeper picks the ball out of the net or doesn’t, the legs go where they go. Tonight is when we find out if "squad depth" is a real thing or just a thing we tell ourselves between matchdays.