I cant seem to upload images. I wanted to show the data using a chart to see what it actually shows. I tried to tabulate it below.
In summary:
1. I have counted that we missed 197 games from injury.
2. The worst offenders were no surprise really - KEITA and ARTHUR.
3. Removing those two from the total count and the others missed a total 145 games through injury. Diaz would the worst offender then but he had a long term injury.
4. Top 5 injured players contained 3
midfielders. 2 are no longer with us. Thiago is showing himself to be a problem from an injury point of view. He missed 55% of our league games through injury. We need to sign MORE modfielders.
5. Konate is a concern. He had a poor record before singing for us and this season he has missed 45% of our league games through injury. We NEED another CB this summer.
6. Henderson and Gomez's injury record were good this year. However their game time was more restricted. Maybe for Henderson he was being handled more this season?
7. Our defenders are pretty robust apart from Konate. They missed a total of 36 games in total. Konate made up 17 of those. The others contributed to missing 19 games in total. So our defenders seem robust but with question marks over Konate. TAA missed none through injury. I think Matip is always likely to pick up injuries but didnt play that much this year to pick them up so his numbers arent too bad but still missed 9 games.
8. Our attackers have quite high numbers for missing games.
Diaz had the bad injury.
Jota misses games. This was also the case the year before if I remember correctly.
Salah and Gakpo the only 2 not to miss a game. Salah is a machine.
Nunez picked a few niggly injuries this year. Something to watch next year.
9. Allison missed no games this year through injury where he was getting a bit of a reputation in previous seasons for picking up little injuries.
NAME |
GAMES MISSED |
%MISSED |
Keita |
29 |
76% |
Arthur |
23 |
61% |
Diaz |
21 |
55% |
Thiago |
20 |
53% |
Konate |
17 |
45% |
Jota |
16 |
42% |
Bobby |
12 |
32% |
Jones |
11 |
29% |
Matip |
9 |
24% |
Ox |
9 |
24% |
Nunez |
9 |
24% |
Kelleher |
8 |
21% |
Virgil |
4 |
11% |
Gomez |
4 |
11% |
Hendo |
3 |
8% |
Robertson |
2 |
5% |
Is any of this a surprise? I dont think so. We all knew Keita was injury prone. Artur was a disaster signing.
We need to watch Konate, Thiago and Jota. These 3 are expected to be regular starters if they are here next year.
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