Just Bad Luck?

[ebm1991]

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

[ebm1991]

forgot to add link

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/row-zed/injury-figures-every-premier-league-7827967

[zacc]

they'll be the same as everyone else next season as playing lots more  games which will effect players fitness.

[gavin]

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.

[Swiss]

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.

Thumbs up

[Rowley Birkin QC]

Agreed gavin.

[Tricky Trev]

That's hard to argue against gav.

[zacc]

why do you think bad management Gav?

[gavin]

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.

[zacc]

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?

[KunDB]

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.

[Lekos]

I can't wait for Pep to come in and make Sterling good.

[Swiss]

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