Injury figures for every Premier League club prove Leicester really are the luckiest team in England
1 Manchester City 69
2 Stoke City 66
3 Liverpool 64
4 Manchester United 63
5 Sunderland 60
6 Newcastle United 56
7 Chelsea 50
8 Everton 50
9 Crystal Palace 47
10 West Ham United 46
11 Aston Villa 43
12 Tottenham Hotspur 42
13 Bournemouth 37
14 Arsenal 37
15 Southampton 35
16 West Bromwich Albion 33
17 Norwich 28
18 Watford 24
19 Swansea City 23
20 Leicester City 18
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/row-zed/injury-figures-every-premier-league-7827967
they'll be the same as everyone else next season as playing lots more games which will effect players fitness.
They have been lucky with injuries but we had a team good enough to beat them on the pitch twice this season and we didn't. There are very few games when our squad of available players wasn't good enough on paper to win a match however we have lost plenty. Bad luck has played a part but so has bad management and bad form.
Quote from: gavin on April 25, 2016, 21:51:57
They have been lucky with injuries but we had a team good enough to beat them on the pitch twice this season and we didn't. There are very few games when our squad of available players wasn't good enough on paper to win a match however we have lost plenty. Bad luck has played a part but so has bad management and bad form.
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Agreed gavin.
That's hard to argue against gav.
why do you think bad management Gav?
His stubbornness in playing certain players, unwillingness to adapt to other teams and general inability to make positive game changing decisions. He's only got the defence right for a couple of short periods - when he has we've been successful but it's been a long time from the first few games of the season until a few weeks ago. In between we lost all hope of winning the league.
Quote from: gavin on April 26, 2016, 22:22:54
His stubbornness in playing certain players, unwillingness to adapt to other teams and general inability to make positive game changing decisions. He's only got the defence right for a couple of short periods - when he has we've been successful but it's been a long time from the first few games of the season until a few weeks ago. In between we lost all hope of winning the league.
Do you think injuries could be partly to blame for the way he's set the team up in the way you say?
Gavin has said it spot on. Injuries are a feeble excuse for a team overflowing with talented players. For me the low work rate figured for most our games and season overall spells out the reason for our failure, just did not work hard enough in games. That's down to management as is all the other faults Gavin has highlighted, mainly I imagine because CL progreß was the holy grail this season, in that regard Pelle has been a massive success.
I can't wait for Pep to come in and make Sterling good.
Quote from: gavin on April 26, 2016, 22:22:54
His stubbornness in playing certain players, unwillingness to adapt to other teams and general inability to make positive game changing decisions. He's only got the defence right for a couple of short periods - when he has we've been successful but it's been a long time from the first few games of the season until a few weeks ago. In between we lost all hope of winning the league.
Constantly playing Delph on the left wing does my swede in