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So .... why all the Injuries ?

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Frogfish

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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

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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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I would always expect us to be near the top of that table after a WC as we have plenty of internationals playing over the summer, compared to the Sunderlands of the world. It's also only been a few weeks in so maybe that's skewing the stats as its a smaller sample.
Chelsea and Citeh have had large squads for a while and so their players surely get rested more than ours would.
 
But thats what I dont undertsand; I woudl expect any red blooded male player who has her as the physio to sprend more time in treatment, not less
 
Yes it would seem so, wouldn't it ? But maybe she's just a highly professional female physio who's just really very good in her job.

Just a thought.

The machismo and sexist side of me, however, finds that thought offensive and repulsive, only to be tempered by the compassionate and moral side of me. So yay to feminism !
 
Let's make it even clearer here : Chelsea's players played an average of 8-12 games more per person that ours last season ... and yet look at their injury record over last season compared to all of the other top teams.

This season they are rock bottom for injuries with already 34 Injury weeks (read matches) less than us. Imagine the effect if Sturridge, Allen, Lallana and so on had been fit for most of our matches to date.

This isn't a coincidence. Whether it's training, warming up/down regimes, how the players are treated when they show signs of a potential injury etc .... there is something Chelsea are doing that we, and Arsenal in particular who one could assume are doing the polar opposite of Chelsea, are not doing.

Where is industrial espionage when you need it.
 
Roman Abramovic's money doesn't just buy players, it also buys some of the best negotiators and fitness people in the industry it would seem.
 
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