The fun thing with this the season is pretty much nine months long. Odegaard missed two months of it but hasn’t exactly torn up any trees in the other five he’s been fit for. Jesus has never been good consistently, and Havertz spent the first half of the season battling a crisis of confidence in front of goal to the point some Arsenal fans were booing him.
And they’re counting Gabriel being out for two months even though he only got injured last week and so the time he’ll miss will be after the league title has gone and they’ve already reached the CL quarters.
They’re desperate to find a coping mechanism to deal with the fact they’ve come up short again. Even Arteta looks to have given up on the title now looking at that side he’s put out at Everton. Although I’m sure the blues will roll over for them just out of sheer spite.
It’s not only about durations, but having a lot of injuries in one area at the same time. They were without 4/6 forwards for a period. That is a lot, any team would feel that. Don’t think we have to measure our c*cks by looking at days of injuries or whatever. Both teams have their squads and situations. We had a relatively good season in terms of injuries, not too much at once. Whether we win this league by minimal or maximum possible points, who cares, it will be fully deserved. All league winners are. But also, while we’re at that, if we secure the title with some games to go, I do hope we play these games as serious as possible (regardless of the odd change/rotation).
Interesting post from last year that puts their injury troubles this year into context. Saka had a good quarter of that season where he was reported to be struggling with a niggle yet was rarely ever made unavailable. Are their problems this year just the effects of how hard Arteta rode many of these guys over the last 2-3 years?
The LegoMan is more interested in winning the excuses title than anything. He’s a scummy cynical 2nd rate politician type and his team are in his image.
To be fair, a lot of people are pinning the fall-off in form from the likes of Henderson, Fabinho and Robertson to Klopp. I’ve also criticised (and still am) Slot for not rotating Gravenberch and Salah more, they sometimes look dead on their feet.
That said, while our team have had a decent share of injuries this season, Arsenal have had it worse but they should do well to remember the injury crises that Liverpool suffered during the previous four or five seasons.
I know he is only young… but he was playing well enough to be part of the squad… but Bajcetic is out on loan, simply because of injury he sustained last season… could even be categorised, as an extended injury, that has also ruled him out, through non-availability, this season
When you start with a good team who are already a CL outfit.
When you spend hundreds of millions on improving them - 700M?
When you win one FA Cup in 5 years.
When you expect to be crowned champions the second Man City show any kind of blip.
When you watch the Liverpool manager win it in his first season, after spending 10M.
Yep.
Complaining about injuries is a coping strategy, because if this underwhelming cheque-book manager didn’t go there, serious questions would have to be asked him.
Last 5 PL matches.
LIV: D W W W W
ARS: D D W W D
With each game, Arsetita is becoming increasingly seer-like except that it applies more to him than the runaway leader.
Yeah, his team is not going to win every match but he can dream till it becomes a nightmare.
I am maybe being a salty bitch about this, but I find it interesting that their teenage breakout star at LB continues to play so petulantly. Is that something a manager can educate out of him? Maybe not. Has Arteta showed anything that would you think he was capable of that even if he wanted to, or has he showed his own petulance that a kid might take the wrong lessons from?
