I mean, we're literally one Lautaro injury away from being completely Grade A-fucked. We already saw what happened when we didn't have him for two games and that was against the Lecce's and Genoa's of the world.
Look at Milan on Saturday. The tying goals were scored by Jovic and Okafor, two substitutes. Neither of them are normal starters for them, but between them they've got eight goals in Serie A this season. Our backup CF's have scored one goal between them in the league this year. Imagine bringing Alexis and Arnautovic on with a 2-1 deficit and expecting them to score the goals to overturn the result. LOL, not happening. We paid more for those two than Milan did for Okafor and Jovic, btw, so either a big scouting win for Milan or big scouting loss for us, depending on how you want to look at it.
As touched on, there's just too much deadweight in the squad. Not defensively, that's our best area in the squad by some distance. We actually have both starters and legitimate cover there when we need to rotate. De Vrij should be playing more to give Acerbi proper rest, and Darmian shouldn't be having to play so much, but we can actually run (when fully fit) a unit of Dimarco (Augusto)/Acerbi (De Vrij)/Pavard (Bisseck)/Dumfries (Darmian) and it all kinda works. Yay for splashing our meager winter window money on a seemingly surplus-player* right now, but I guess that's a different topic. Our midfield is fucking pathetic. The starting trio is fantastic and has been this entire season, yet we backed them entering this season with Frattesi, Sensi, Agoumé, Klaasen, and Asllani...beyond Frattesi who even he can't get rotational starts in the league, that's an entire midfield depth full of players Inzaghi clearly doesn't/didn't trust. Two of them are gone or set to be gone, neither of them have been replaced in any way, and looking at the very short-term, we're playing a tough away game on Sunday against a team in a CL spot right now with literally one midfielder available off the bench, and it's Davy fuckin' Klaasen who's that guy. Our midfield beyond the starters is Frattesi and a bag of magic beans. It's absolutely pathetic. You can't expect to compete for a Scudetto when that's what you give your manager to work with.
We have the best XI in Italy, but we don't have the deepest team, and that's going to be the difference in the end. That and Juve having had the lighter schedule thanks to no European commitments. And we only have ourselves to blame for building such a paper-thin squad. Unless we win the Juve game in a couple weeks and at least give ourselves a little margin for error, there's a <10% chance we're winning the Scudetto this season. I don't see how it's possible.
*I mean, really, if I gave an O/U of 150 minutes in Serie A for Tajon Buchanan, who here is taking the over on that bet?