Not exact matches
The further away from «1» the
number designation
of the cervical
injury, the
better chance a person has
of regaining more arm and hand movement.
Signing or not, I'm just eager to watch the boys play, Mustafi doesn't come with guarantees either, most
of these players we cry out for are just average at
best and only contribute to bloated squad
numbers in the long run after our already average squad members return from
injury.
Well no actually, because all this talk
of the club still having an underlying
injury problem is not actually backed up by the
numbers.
Finding out that Alexis Sanchez has picked up an
injury that could leave him on the treatment table for a
number of weeks, was not
good news at all.
Good news has come in that a
number of clubs are keen to sign the midfield star, whereas my initial thoughts were that he would be retiring, especially having missed the entire campaign with
injury.
The Spain international has endured a difficult first season at Stamford Bridge, having failed to look his
best in front
of goal before recently missing a
number of games through
injury.
Mind you, Southampton lost 8 key players plus a manager in the transfer window, they now sit fourth, 3 pts ahead
of us.We can no longer use
injuries as an excuse because we have always had them, and if wenger was a smart manager, he would have addressed this problem by having
better squad depth, but instead he chose to send a defender out on loan despite being short in
numbers at the back, foolishly chose not to sign a defender despite an array
of good defenders on show at the world cup.So now who is to blame?I guess it's anyone or anything but Wenger.
Morata's goal
numbers aren't much
better, but he's excuses
of injury and league - newness, that Lukaku doesn't.
He makes a
number of good points that may give an insight into how / why we seem to incur so many
injuries.
We're in a situation where we need
numbers as
well with the amount
of injuries we have.
At this time towards the year - end, limited
injuries are what Arsenal need to flourish at their
best, and the lesser the
number of games the more players will be off the treatment room table.
I'll reserve judgement until next season, reducing the
number of injuries (long term ones particularly) is just as important as signing
good players.
«Eden Hazard remains the
best number ten playing in England, and having missed the start
of the season with
injury he has been finding form
of late — outstanding in Chelsea's recent victories.
Wilshere has had a
number of injuries already in his young career, and has become the butt
of a
number of jokes from Gunners fans as
well as rival clubs for his lack
of fitness and regular off - the - field antics.
Should this even be a topic?Giroud is a player
of average quality always surrounded by
good players.I just don't get.It's as if only Arsenal fans rate him.This was a player who was bought to be the leading striker at Arsenal and after his years
of failure which many deny he's now become a super sub?How laughable is that.From failure to super sub.If the so called world class striker we're signing goes out with an
injury for about five months who comes in then.It seems to me people lack vision.Why is it always Giroud Giroud Giroud?After so many seasons people are still debating what souldn't even be debatable.I've lost count
of the
number of times he's been talked about here.This is the problem with our club.It's just not ruthless.This is a player who should have been gone long ago but due to him being French he still gets the chances.We won't miss him when he goes and I'd like to see if he'd stand out in a smaller club.
With the
number of injuries we've had, we have survived quite
well.
Say what you like admin.Even Diaby upon doing nothing for several seasons was able to secure a move to Marseille which to me is a top team.Was it not last season that before he went to Bournemouth teams like Juventus and AS Roma were interested in him?He just needs a league which is not physical for the mean time.I mean any time he gets a run
of games he begins to hit top forn and just when things are looking up things go down again.This
injury thing is a menace in our club.Look at the
number of games Gnabry has played.But I will urge him to leave Arsenal because all he needs to do is to remain
injury free.It's not rocket science.If Wilshere remains
injury free for just one season he'll be great.It's just like the Van Persie case.A lot
of people were frustrated with him and cllled him man
of glass but I knew he just needed to be
injury free for one season.To me he's a
better player than Ramsey though Ramsey is on form.He also has the ability to surpass Cazorla and be Arsenal's
number one.He's also Arsenall thrugh and through.Arsenal has to solve his
injury problems because he's shown that when he gets a run
of games he can do it.
I think we should sell Szczesny (use Martinez as
number 2), Ospina, Debuchy, Jenkinson, Gibbs, Coquelin, Ramsey (a few
good performances do not hide seasons
of poor performances and
injuries), Wilshere, Walcott, Perez and Giroud.
This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety
of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style
of play has become a shadow
of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out
of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid
of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out
of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes
of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play
of Monreal, but none
of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio
of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (
better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit
better during some points in the latter part
of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when
injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part
of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature
of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player
of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out
of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front
of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the
injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that,
of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one
of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one
of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already
of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs
of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the
numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack
of mobility is an albatross around the necks
of our offence... so when you ask who would be our
best starting 11, I don't have a clue because
of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits
The versatile midfielder is able to play in a
number of positions, having featured at centre - back, central midfield, as
well as at full - back and on the wings, and would come as a great squad member to have available, especially with the
injuries regularly picked up at the Emirates.
I believe, a
good exercise would be to take a sufficiently large sample size
of players who played for Arsenal and some other club for a long period, say at least 3 - 4 years and compare their
injury records in the two phases (
number, frequency and nature
of injuries incurred).
Wilshere has shown a huge amount
of ability and potential previously, but after a
number of injury setbacks, he will be keen to get back to playing his
best, and proving he still retains more than enough to have a bright future in the game.
Arsenal had bounced back
well from a slow start, though, and were starting to look really
good until a
number of key players joined the
injury list and that saw us suffer through a nightmare November in which we failed to win a league game.
Injuries clearly played their part in our downfall this term, but for me, Arsene Wenger should be
well aware that we ALWAYS lose a
number of players during the season, and should have used the summer window last year to bring in two or three outfield players (instead
of 0).
Over the years Jack Wiltshire has been very
well paid during lengthy absences through
injuries a
number of which have been self inflicted by reckless tackles and bad decision making.
The Gunners have used a
number of different set - ups this term as he tries to get the
best out
of his squad in different outings, and
injuries have often been a catalyst to those changes, but with Jack Wilshere and Aaron Ramsey both fighting fit and in - form, it is hard to deny either a starting berth.
The
number of player days lost to
injury fell from 2472 in the previous season to a much
better 1834 last year, a drop
of around 25 percent.
-- There have been a
number of key
injuries early in the season, but there is some
good news for Orioles fans as Manny Machado (Knee) will be activated from the disabled list prior to today's game.
I don't know about the rest
of you Arsenal fans, but I am still scratching my head trying to figure out just what the hell Arsene Wenger was thinking by only completing the one bargain basement transfer deal on the January window, despite the club being sat on a mountain
of cash and having our
best chance
of the Premier League title in a decade put at risk by losing a
number of key players to
injury.
It's either we're starting a season with just one fit defender (then using other makeshift players to augment the defence for a
number of games; and by the time the real defenders are back and fit, the season is all but over for us), or we start a season without a recognisable striker (after losing our striker to
injury, knowing he would return 6 weeks or more into the campaign), or we commence a season without any true DM (
well, it's like that dm position isn't ever going to be sorted out).
It's a big moment for Oxlade - Chamberlain as
well as he starts to really justify that summer move from Arsenal, where he'd struggled to impress after a combination
of injuries and being used in a
number of different positions.
Now this season is looking
good and if we can keep the
number of injuries down to a more reasonable level, who knows?
injuries number dropping has little to do with our current form... Wilshere injured = no need to make a room for him even with him having a poor performance (relatively)... Ozil injured = a
better AMF stepped in (Cazorla)... Arteta and Flamini injured = the emergence
of coq (that's just luck and has nothing to do with Wenger being genius) Actually it is the other way around, our
injuries this time were a bless (except for Ox and Giroud)
Well when the
injuries continue to be muscular you would have to say not and both
of the Arsenal stars who yesterday joined the growing
number of Gunners in our treatment room did so because
of muscle issues, or that is what is suspected explained the boss in an Arsenal.com report.
Leeds have looked worse, not
better, since Heckingbottom took over, and while
injuries and suspensions have robbed him
of a
number of first - choice players, that's going to happen to every season.
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number of injury concerns over the past week
of World Cup qualifying games, Arsenal look to be in pretty
good shape after welcoming back a
number of players.
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Arsenal had the highest
number of days lost to significant
injuries last season, in 2009 - 10 and 2007 - 8, as
well as the second highest in 2011 - 12 and 2010 - 11.
As
well as the high incidence
of muscular
injuries, there have certainly been periods when they have suffered an unusual
number of serious impact
injuries.
We've compiled some
of the
best Jack Wilshere quotes throguhout the Englishman's
injury, to give us a
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All
of the
good spells that the
number nine seems to have are disrupted by needless red cards, international breaks or small niggling
injuries — although, these have been very few compared to his Liverpool days.
The 27 - year - old is eyeing an even
better result now that the Toffees boast a stronger squad after the January arrivals
of Cenk Tosun, Theo Walcott and Eliaquim Mangala, plus the return
of a
number of players from
injury.
«Whilst a frustrating and disappointing season is mitigated by a lengthy
injury list and a record
number of narrow defeats resulting in losing bonus points, both parties agreed it was
best for the side that there was a new voice at the helm going forward.
Swansea entered this game with a very
good injury record for the season, in fact, they had suffered the least
number of injuries compared to any team in the league.
I am a bit mixed on Kent and Ojo, although more so on the later as we have seen some very
good sparks from him before his
injury with a
number of decent assists made in limited appearances.
But few are
well equipped to handle the strain
of a hectic festive schedule than Tottenham's squad and with key personnel returning from long - term
injuries at just the right time — Michael Dawson and Jermain Defoe both back from
injury and involved in first - team affairs — this could be a defining period
of the season for Spurs, a period where others may falter as they capitalise by defying the physical demands
of Christmas fixtures by using strength in
numbers.
Arsenal have coped incredibly
well with a large
number of injuries this season — their squad is evidently far stronger than most people seem to think, and arguably deeper than Chelsea's and United's.
Protecting players from increased risk
of traumatic brain
injury by teaching them «heads up» tackling and blocking, equipping them with properly fitted helmets, strengthening their necks to
better withstand the forces that cause concussion, and by limiting the
number of hits they sustain over the course
of a season and career;
Research also suggests that pre - or early adolescence may be the
best time to start NMT in order to reduce the
number of ACL
injuries female athletes suffer.
Robert Lockheimer:
Well, actually falls is the
number one cause
of injury in the homes.