When you look at the injury table for last season three things stand out :
a) Arsenal were incredibly unlucky, with a huge number of injury 'days' or 'matches per player missed' to be more accurate, and far more than any other team in the PL.
b) Chelsea were incredibly lucky last season, I mean like incredibly. Even with a large squad they were near the bottom of the Injury List table for the season.
c) Despite the fact that we have a very small squad we still finished in the top half of the table, bearing comparison with City and their far bigger squad. So that meant a far higher average 'injury days' per player than some of those clubs above us.
2013/14
Fast forward to 2014/15 and what are we seeing ? We are accumulating more injuries but that is probably in line with the extra number of players but now we are much nearer the head of that table, Arsenal are again suffering a lot of injuries but Chelsea, yet again, are way down there, this time at the very bottom of the Injury List table.
Surely no team can be that lucky/unlucky and there is no coincidence (and no it is completely unrelated to Ms. Carneiro before any smart-arse chimes in with that 'witty' observation) ? What is to blame ? Training methods ? Recovery schedules ?
2014/15
a) Arsenal were incredibly unlucky, with a huge number of injury 'days' or 'matches per player missed' to be more accurate, and far more than any other team in the PL.
b) Chelsea were incredibly lucky last season, I mean like incredibly. Even with a large squad they were near the bottom of the Injury List table for the season.
c) Despite the fact that we have a very small squad we still finished in the top half of the table, bearing comparison with City and their far bigger squad. So that meant a far higher average 'injury days' per player than some of those clubs above us.
2013/14
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Fast forward to 2014/15 and what are we seeing ? We are accumulating more injuries but that is probably in line with the extra number of players but now we are much nearer the head of that table, Arsenal are again suffering a lot of injuries but Chelsea, yet again, are way down there, this time at the very bottom of the Injury List table.
Surely no team can be that lucky/unlucky and there is no coincidence (and no it is completely unrelated to Ms. Carneiro before any smart-arse chimes in with that 'witty' observation) ? What is to blame ? Training methods ? Recovery schedules ?
2014/15
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