Havre
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To be fair, fatigue is a lot different when you're out of Europe and after the winter blitz of games
Spurs played in Europe until the end of February. They were in the FA cup until the semi's.
Basically every player in the starting line-up plays regularly for their national team.
Fatigue has nothing to do with losing to Monaco on the 14th of September. No player is already getting tired after 2-3 months like when Spurs played their worst football during that season. Fatigue hits you due to playing too much over time. And normally that means fizzling out at the end of the season - which the Spurs players didn't (some argue they did the year before when the last four league games got them only 2 points).
Realistically Spurs won't play in Europe much later than February anyway. So don't see the big difference from last season in that respect. Can the squad handle 5-6 matches more during the spring? Don't know.