02 Sep 2022 14:34:14
Ed01, is it possible that the significant demands placed on our players and our midfield in particularly could be one of the reasons our players, and midfield especially, tend to have these niggling injuries.
{Ed001's Note - it is possible but highly unlikely as most of them have always picked up niggles throughout their career. Why is it always people look to blame the way we play when none of the players have ever shown any different playing different styles?}
02 Sep 2022 14:52:43
Injuries are just luck or lack of. These players are athletes and the movements they do on the pitch they will do thousands of times throughout the season be it on the pitch or training ground.
Unfortunately 999 times of doing the movement nothing happens and then once a muscle/ tendon / ligament / cartilage etc might pull or tear in a one off incident. Genetics and pain threshold will also play a part. Behind every main (primary) muscle group you will have support muscle groups and sometimes genetically these are stronger in some players and others hence why some appear no always pick up niggles and others never.
Then you have the impact injuries which can happen to anyone at any given time.
02 Sep 2022 15:28:00
I would say not warming up, down and stretching would also cause injures JK23.
02 Sep 2022 15:28:57
We have a selection of midfielders all of which are injury prone. I don’t class Elliot and Carvalho in that camp so hopefully they are a big part of the solution.
02 Sep 2022 16:37:04
Longthing of course warming up / stretching and flushing the blood out in a cool down is extremely important.
And I’d be shocked if the S&C coaches and physios aren’t doing these to the finer detail every day in training and pre and post match.
Amateur footballers might stretch a couple of times a week (if that) and not get any muscle pulls or tears and then you have some pro athletes who do it numerous times a day weekly and still get pulls and tears.
You’ll probably point out that the pro game is faster which it is but muscles and injuries don’t care about that and if they did then the average man and woman wouldn’t ever get any pulls or tears themselves.
02 Sep 2022 18:59:47
Old retired now professional footballers would often say good players never get injured, the more demanding modern football of recent years can now park that for good, injuries are now more down to the luck of the draw.
Some players would often smoke in the changing rooms during half time in the old days, and managers and trainers, i was watching old footage of the when LFC won the FA for the first time and Joe Fagan was having a fag during the actual game sitting on the trainers bench alongside Sir Bob and Shanks.
He was also interviewed after a match once and had a fag lit up, when games finished in the old days players would often meet straight after the match for a few jars, that is now frowned upon. How times have changed?
Some players stay injury prone during their careers, we all know who they are, sometimes ye past is also your future with regard to injuries, think the best way to avoid injuries is cross ye fingers.
That's why I can't see Melo starting tomorrow as we now have five games in fifteen days (two of which are CL group games), why throw him in at the deep end his fitness has to be assessed first? JK will ease him in gradually. Mind you when you sign someone everyone declares themself fit all of a sudden, iwonder why?
02 Sep 2022 23:39:39
Injury is part of football and every contact sport for that matter. One could get injured in a no contact drill. Ask Ruud Van Nistelrooy. In fact, a player could get injured by dropping his aftershave bottle on his toe and breaking it. Just ask Spain GK Santiago Canizares how he missed the 2002 WC. No need to start overthinking things like it’s complicated. It’s part of the game.