How bad have our injuries really been this season?

Varane out for a ”few weeks”, Evans won’t be available for the Bournemouth game either.

 
It’s really simple, since the one winter WC held, injuries especially impact and hamstring injuries have increased exponentially across the PL, it’s only going to get much worse next season with added European games and world club cup games for Chelsea and City. It’s time to have 6 subs, but at least 3 subs must be attacking players, plus the 5th and 6th sub must be made after 80 minutes , time also to increase squads to 27/28 players.
 
Thank feck the rest of this season is irrelevant because what a crazy situation to be in. The upcoming transfer window is so important.
 
Can't remember ever seeing this insane amount of injuries over a season before. I find it hard to believe it's purely down to bad luck. There must be something wrong with the way we train.
 
We don't even have fixture congestion. There's no such thing as bad luck to this extent, it's definitely correlated to our style of play and our training sessions.
 
Don’t know why we bother with training. It’s not as if the team has developed a style of play, knows how to defend or score goals.
The only thing we seem to achieve at training is injuries.
 
KjaAnd said:
Can't remember ever seeing this insane amount of injuries over a season before. I find it hard to believe it's purely down to bad luck. There must be something wrong with the way we train.
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If we train anything like we play, than undoubtedly yes.
 
This is no longer freak luck. This is a pattern and you should look at the coaching staff.

It’s not like we’re playing 2 games a week all season. We’ve spent half the season playing one game a week.
 
Our fitness and conditioning is a joke if we’re suffering so many injuries. We have one of the lightest fixture schedule so we can’t blame the injuries on the huge amount of games. So it’s purely down to training and conditioning. And the responsibility for that lies squarely with ETH.
 
Ooof! Hard to believe every single one of our players is injury prone. When someone like Maguire gets injured (who was quite reliable before ETH). We've had consistent injury problems all season.
 
There is something seriously wrong behind the scenes this season. We had some incredibly bad periods in SAF’s latter years but this is a whole new level.
 
baskinginthesun said:
Ooof! Hard to believe every single one of our players is injury prone. When someone like Maguire gets injured (who was quite reliable before ETH). We've had consistent injury problems all season.
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He was also injured for the entirety of his best season at the club, but was on painkilling injections throughout the campaign. I wonder if we might've just stopped using such treatments altogether, leading to more matches being missed.
 
It's not a coaching thing. It's that Varane and Lindelof are injury prone, Martinez has had terrible luck with that hammer falling on his knee, Evans is 37 and Kambwala has picked up a knock.
 
Biggest injury is sitting on the bench and 'coaching' the team.
 
didz said:
He was also injured for the entirety of his best season at the club, but was on painkilling injections throughout the campaign. I wonder if we might've just stopped using such treatments altogether, leading to more matches being missed.
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I know Lindelof was that season because of a bad back. Are you thinking of him or was Maguire playing through injury as well that season (20/21)?
 
Bubz27 said:
It's not a coaching thing. It's that Varane and Lindelof are injury prone, Martinez has had terrible luck with that hammer falling on his knee, Evans is 37 and Kambwala has picked up a knock.
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Lindelöf’s missed 3.8 games per season on average during the last five seasons before this. Exclude covid & illness and it’s 2.8 per season. Wouldn’t call that injury prone.
 
The only logical explanation I can think of is that ETH is responsible for the injuries during training. If someone else was responsible, ETH should have fired them already, so again it is his responsibility. It seems to me that ETH doesn't know what he is doing, and because he is failing, he puts too much pressure on the players. He is damaging our players.
 
Bubz27 said:
It's not a coaching thing. It's that Varane and Lindelof are injury prone, Martinez has had terrible luck with that hammer falling on his knee, Evans is 37 and Kambwala has picked up a knock.
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Lindelof has never really been injury prone. A couple of games here and there, but he's already missed almost as many games this season as he did in all his previous seasons here put together.
 
MadDogg said:
I know Lindelof was that season because of a bad back. Are you thinking of him or was Maguire playing through injury as well that season (20/21)?
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Apparently the first two months of 2020 he was on them for a hip problem, with Anka also claiming that he finished that season on painkilling injections for another unspecified injury. So not quite the whole of 19/20 as I initially said, but the business half.
 
top1whoisman said:
Lindelöf’s missed 3.8 games per season on average during the last five seasons before this. Exclude covid & illness and it’s 2.8 per season. Wouldn’t call that injury prone.
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MadDogg said:
Lindelof has never really been injury prone. A couple of games here and there, but he's already missed almost as many games this season as he did in all his previous seasons here put together.
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Fairs. So that's the only exception, not an indictment of training or coaching.
 
You know what is strange?
From the whole team, I would have thought Rashford would have been injured more if high intensity training was an issue. It makes sense why he is not over exerting himself, he probably is more concerned he would get injured if he does too much.
 
What are we doing in training! They’ve had a week without a game and get injured, before a big cup semi final. It’s ridiculous and infuriating.
 
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