Is Tottenham's injury crisis the worst in the PL?
Some of you know about Kane and Dele's long absences due to injury, as well as Son's much publicised national duty absence, but it goes much deeper. I can almost say without verifying that Spurs have the worst injury crisis in the PL this season.
Someone has listed absences here. Data only up to march 1st.
It all started with the world cup, almost the entire squad went deep into the world cup, Kane and Dele played though injury.
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12 players did not have a full pre-season.
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9 arrived for training 5 days before the first league game.
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To date only Alderweireld and Gazzaniga have been injury free all season.
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Against Barca, both starting RB injured, so third choice Kyle Walker-Peters played in do or die game
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Against Dortmund, both starting LB injured, so Vertoghen had to take over
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Son, Kane, Dele, Eriksen have started just 7 games together in all competitions this season. Game against City was the 7th time.
This theme of players moving around to cover for each other continued throughout the season, with Dele & Eriksen playing CM, Rose playing winger, Davies playing CB and Son/Moura playing striker.
I've updated some of the data, but it's still largely March 1st data.
Player| no of injuries | Games unavailable ---|---|----|---- Lloris| 1 | 6 Vorm | 1| 6 Trippier | 1| 4 Aurier | 2| 10 Davies | 1 | 7 Rose | 1| 8 Vertonghen | 2| 18 Sanchez | 1| 10 Foyth | 1| 10 Dier | 3 | 15 Sissoko | 2| 6 Wanyama | 2| 22 Dembele | 2 | 20 Eriksen | 1| 4 Dele | 3| 16 Son | 2| 6| Lamela | 2| 10 Lucas| 1| 3 Kane | 1| 7 Winks | 2| 4 * Total| 32| 192
*Winks info up to date
Some injuries overlap, e.g Hugo and Vorm. What the 192 number really means is that Poch missed out on 192 chances to start or sub someone on, not that the injured player would have definitely played, just that Poch lost that option.
Posted Apr 12, 2019, 2:38 AM UTC · edited
It's called depth.
Depth occurs when you buy players.
Buy players.
Interesting! I have not heard of this. Please send more information, if you have it, to [email protected]. I'm sure he'll be as interested as I am to learn of this "buy" thing you speak of.
Is that actually his email address
Yes
Brb I'm gonna submit a bid for Kane
We had a full squad. I agree that certain injury prone players like Wanyama and Lamela should have been replaced by more reliable options.
But we did have injury cover, or should we have had 3 players ready for every position? Don't think PL allows 33 player squads. We have 4 centre backs, and 3 got injured so we had to play Davies at CB. As I said in the post, our backups also got injured a lot.
Having a fullback playing CB in a pinch is reasonably common. Having your team where you can't easily rotate forwards and midfielders after a couple of injuries is much more problematic
How common is it to start your 6th choice CB?
Pretty common if you play a back 3
Arsenal have played Monreal in a back 3 for the post few weeks, and Maitland Niles at right back. It's not uncommon, especially when someone like ben Davies already plays CB for Wales
And it's not like Davies isn't use to playing CB. He plays it with Wales
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Despite all the injuries and not buying any players we're still going to finish above both you and the other bunch of shitters in blue. Such is the gulf.
Why does city get shat on for having the money to do so?
Because the source of that money is a cartoonishly villainous absolute monarchy whose social legislation, like its style of government, is medieval.
It’s fuck you money from sheiks that don’t care about basic human rights.