its just injuries? its angeball and its happened before:
ANGE Postecoglou has attributed Celtic’s lengthy injury list to the fact the Parkhead club have played “too many games” in the last four weeks…
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- He also admitted his high-intensity game plan had taken its toll as he started preparations for the St Mirren match.
- “It’s not bad luck,” said Postecoglou.
“We’re playing too many games. People can talk about it as much as they want, but because we don’t have the squad to rotate players at the moment we are paying the price. And we are playing a certain brand of football that puts pressure on players.
- “Since the last break we are going to have I think 13 games in the space of maybe six weeks. No other club has that by the way.
So that is going to have an attrition, particularly when we are talking about having a limited squad and limited options.
- “David Turnbull hasn’t missed a game so I
don’t think it takes too much investigation to understand that his body is fatigued. We are paying the price for that at the moment.
“It’s not that it’s a price I’m willing to pay, because I don’t want players to get injured, but
I didn’t want to compromise our football and take the foot off the pedal because I knew there were going to be this many games. I just figured ‘well let’s just go for it’ and we hope to hang on until the break.
“My players aren’t holding back and it’s the only reason we are being successful at the moment.
You can’t hold back. It’s all-in or nothing and I’ve said that to them from day one whether it’s training or playing, you’ve got to be totally into this.”
Postecoglou added: “There were a least two or three out there on Sunday (feeling it). Mikey is nowhere near 100 per cent fit, but I thought he was outstanding, r
eal maturity from him to put his injury to one side and contribute to the team. There are a lot of those examples.
“David has been unbelievable for us. Not just the quality of his play, but
the fact he is playing every game. I’m putting him out there every time because we need him and we don’t have a lot of options there.
“I was gutted for him on Sunday because he deserved to be out there at the end. But
hopefully it is nothing too significant and we will get him back pretty quickly.”
“I think it’s too much football, but at the same time I also understand that we are in Europe, we are in a cup final and we have brought it upon ourselves in many respects.
“If we had a more rounded squad, if this team was a year further down the track or two years down the track and were more settled, then I think we could navigate ourselves to be better off than we are now at the moment.”
“Moff probably wasn’t in the calculations two weeks ago, but we just had so many injuries. We brought him into training and he has looked bright. We brought him on the other night and he looked good.
ANGE Postecoglou has attributed Celtic’s lengthy injury list to the fact the Parkhead club have played “too many games” in the last four weeks…
www.celticway.co.uk
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