Premier League teams face the unprecedented situation of returning from a mid-season World Cup as the season resumes on St Stephen's Day with the issue of player burnout on the agenda.
Tottenham’s Monday lunchtime game at Brentford comes just eight days after a final in which Spurs duo Hugo Lloris and Cristian Romero both featured.
Here, the PA news agency’s player burnout study looks at the clubs and players most likely to be affected by fatigue as the domestic campaign clicks into gear again.
Regarding the World Cup itself, Manchester City are far and away the team most likely to suffer. While Norway’s absence means star striker Erling Haaland goes into Thursday’s League Cup clash with Liverpool on 39 days’ rest, save for a friendly against Girona in which he scored, City led the league with 16 World Cup players combining for 5,180 minutes of action.