Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [7th - 11th May 2016]

[Trusty]

Than any other club, lol, because of the stage we usually go out of in europe we usually play less than other top four clubs. WE also have a wage bill that for most of the past decade has been mostly between 70-130% higher than those teams who don't play extra european games.

Likewise that table is meaningless, that states number of injury, it doesn't take into account severity of injury.

Cazorla, Welbeck, Coquelin, Ox(twice) have sustained knee ligament trouble this season alone, all missing(or going to miss) a huge number of games.

That list counts a tight calf or a broken nose that causes you to miss a single game with the same weight as a ACL tear that causes you to miss the full season. No Arsenal have not had an okay season for injuries, they've had another very bad year. We've had 8 players miss over 50 days of the season, 4 that missed over 100, 2 over 210 days and Welbeck will join that list. That list doesn't even include Welbeck's preseason injury that made him miss almost the entirety of this year already. Anyone injured last year isn't included in either that list you posted or those stats I was using.

This is a 'less' bad year for us, and that has multiple players missing 3/4's of a season, many more missing 2-3 months and many of those have had other injuries keeping them out for 1-4 weeks at other points of the season.

A lucky or 'good' season is where you have 20-30 injuries and the majority of those are less than 3 weeks out with only a couple of players missing a substantial portion of the season.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35313650
Does this table suffice?

I'm not sure about previous years, but this year would suggest we've ok.

There are certain players in the Arsenal squad that are injury prone though, that will contribute badly i'd of thought to overall stats. It's funny how you use stats then when someone else does, their useless. You've got to remember that Arsenal play in certain way that will contribute to more injuries as well. We have smaller, agile players as opposed to large and strong guys. Teams also try to tackle heavily becuase they can't get the ball off Arsenal, that will also contribute.

 

[Psycho Ned]

Nice keeping lol

 

[Fulax]

Wtf Robles. He is entirely to blame for our relegation.

 

[Azza]

Where was Robles going?!? hahahha

 

[mmj_uk]

That's Sunderland safe.

 

[Azza]

hahahahhaa Is right agent Cleverley.

 

[Fulax]

Glad I'm not an Everton fan. What an embarrassment.

 

[Psycho Ned]

Everton are like the May Santa this year giving presents to everyone, let the champions have a party, let Sunderland stay up!

 

[Danthus]

Everton are a shambles under Martinez.

They should be up there challenging for european places with the players they have.

 

[Purdy]

Hate that sky have free reign to adjust the microphones to suit who they want sounding better zzz

What was the applause for on 29 minutes?

 

[maj]

Martinez sacked at half time? Seen stranger things happen.

 

[Fulax]

Hazard is good again

 

[Purdy]

Fantastic goal, hilarious standing off but nice foot work and finish

 

[Mark1989]

Poor defending there we let Hazard dribble too much and his dribble wasnt even well hidden! Annoying as Chelsea aint been that great as it is :/

 

[Irish_Tom]

****.

 

[nemtizz]

I feel nothing.

 

[Rybo89]

As much as im really not bothered about Sunderland, im glad they have pipped Newcastle.

 

[Purdy]

Holy **** mignolet, idiot

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

Mignolet... you're dumb.

 

[drunkenmaster]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35313650
Does this table suffice?

I'm not sure about previous years, but this year would suggest we've ok.

There are certain players in the Arsenal squad that are injury prone though, that will contribute badly i'd of thought to overall stats. It's funny how you use stats then when someone else does, their useless. You've got to remember that Arsenal play in certain way that will contribute to more injuries as well. We have smaller, agile players as opposed to large and strong guys. Teams also try to tackle heavily becuase they can't get the ball off Arsenal, that will also contribute.

Stats with context, I put your stat in context which apparently you don't like.

The other stat you now provide is also fairly useless as it discounts a bunch of injuries we've had. That is from a few months ago and doesn't represent the current season particularly accurately.

Welbeck will have missed more time than any other player in the past couple of years by the time he gets back from injury, but was he injury prone before being at Arsenal? What about the other players who leave Arsenal and stop being as injury prone?

As for the way we play we get tackled more theory... why does this only apply to Arsenal and not every possession team? There are plenty of extremely heavily fouled players in the league who don't end up injured all the time?

How many times do we have a player rushed back then injured before even getting back in the team or extremely often put straight back in the first team then played by Wenger in every single game before getting injured again after not too long. Wenger has shown a complete lack of ability to understand over training and that the chance of injury when not resting a player is greater. Welbeck has been used maybe excessively since he got back from the last injury while Campbell rots on the bench and even Walcott is somewhat rotting on the bench. But Wenger gets his favourites then plays them till they drop. Iwobi having never played consistent games is being played extremely often for an inexperienced and young player... I've mentioned it for a while and I wouldn't be surprised if he picked up an injury from the way Wenger is playing him.