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Injuries

I'm intrigued to know how long it's going to take for our injured players to return.

Based on Ange's comments, we are expecting Odobert, Vicario, Johnson, Destiny and Werner to join Romero and VDV in training mid-week. Can anyone remember whether Madds was mentioned at any point? I know Ange mentioned before that Solanke was tracking behind the others.

It's really hard to know who can join the Utd, Ipswich or City match day squads in February though, if any, Even then, they won't be anywhere near full match fitness and form.
 
If Ange does this on Sunday he will get pelters from the crowd
id like to see Porro play higher up whilst Johnson is out. There is no doubting he has a cross and a shot on him but is struggling to go up and down the pitch at the moment. The opening goal yesterday was shocking.

We also need to use Gray in Midfield.

id rather play Davies and Danso and let Gray play mid.
 
id like to see Porro play higher up whilst Johnson is out. There is no doubting he has a cross and a shot on him but is struggling to go up and down the pitch at the moment. The opening goal yesterday was shocking.

But misses the right moment to cross the ball every time. I would love to sit down with him and show him the impact he is having delaying these crosses with his overplaying.
 
If Ange does this on Sunday he will get pelters from the crowd
In situations where the "wrong" player is selected and is not doing well, the crowd should get behind the "wrong" player for 45 minutes but then feel free to chant the other player's name (in this case Spence) to try and get him on the pitch; rather than digging out the wrong player or moaning and booing the manager.
 
It’s right that we focus on the players who are injured. But we lose sight of the problems Maddison had last season for example even BEFORE the Chelsea game where he picked up the injury. Did he even finish a full 90 minutes before that game? And that was with no European football to deal and only 1 league cup game. He never played less than 30 league games for Leicester just for context. I don’t think we will ever have a fully fit squad under this manager. Solanke didn’t miss a single game for Bournemouth last season. Signs for Spurs and has two different spells on the treatment table.
 
One game a week is easy. That is why it is so hard to assess Iraola at Bournemouth and Silva at Fulham; both seem to be really good but when playing twice a week, the wheels would probably fly off.

Exactly. Look, perhaps not, perhaps he really is the Messiah. But it is fair to say, he is being over-hyped right now...
 
One game a week is easy. That is why it is so hard to assess Iraola at Bournemouth and Silva at Fulham; both seem to be really good but when playing twice a week, the wheels would probably fly off.

I hear that, but Solanke’s first injury came in August IIRC before we started playing twice a week. Seems a player needs insane fitness levels in order to avoid injury playing under our current manager.
 

Really good article on the injuries
With actual really simple data
Also worth noting concussion based injuries and suspensions due to off the pitch infringements are not on the style of play
 
Has there been anything out there around VDV being available for Sunday? would have had over 2 weeks of training etc since his last appearance, hoping he's available for the bench at least.
 

Really good article on the injuries
With actual really simple data
Also worth noting concussion based injuries and suspensions due to off the pitch infringements are not on the style of play

All the article does is lay out that we have had a lot of injuries, more than anyone else, which we all know. It's good that it is getting some coverage outside of THFC but there's nothing in there we don't already know.
 
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