Got there before meOriginally Posted by Marc Overmars
Ultimately this was an accident waiting to happen. Overuse is one of the biggest risk factors in hamstring injuries. Timber, White and Calafiori are all centre backs who could have been deployed in order to allow some respite.
We can’t really claim bad luck with injuries, Odegaard got felled on international duties but largely our players have pulled up either in training or on the pitch with no one near them.
It's just been a season to forget.
Players have been badly mis-managed and it's become a total cluster fuck.
Whilst that’s not an unfair statement (and it couldn’t be otherwise I would be contradicting what I’ve said above). I guess the only thing that can be said, is that given the way Spurs and Man City have coped with injuries….we haven’t really done all that badly by contrast.
Still being 2nd without having a striker, who knows what will happen when you’re breaking up the best centre back partnership in for me probably about a decade. The important thing is to not give Kiwior too much game time (I don’t think he’s a terrible defender but he often looks like what he is, a defender without enough game time) and to make sure that Partey doesn’t play at right back.
I think this has probably nixxed us against Real Madrid though
White got injured in training again, that's why he wasn't available for the Fulham match, that makes him like the 5th player this season to get injured in our notorious over the top training sessions.
I mean who the fuck thinks its a bright idea to have intensive training sessions immediately after a loaded international break at this time of the season, when all our players muscles are already super tuned.
I know White hasn't much game time compared to others but it could have easily been Gabriel that got injured in our training session or someone else who has played a gazillion games.
This manager is still acting like a rookie, he just doesn't think and that's why we'll continue to have this terrible record with hamstrings and other stupid injuries under him. If Wilshere or Carzola had played under Arteta, they'd probably had clocked 10 career starts in total!
I am tired of this never ending learning curve, no coach is worth all this aggro.
Last edited by 21_GOONER_SALUTE; 03-04-2025 at 03:46 PM.
I am pretty upset with this news.
The CL is the only thing we had left, the one competition where Arteta's soul-sapping brand of Pepball could actually come out tops. Liverpool is out. Realistically there is only Madrid and Barca to fear. We could have won this without a striker if we are able to keep clean sheets.
But now we lose our most consistent and IMO best player of the season. Now I have to hope an average and demoralised Kiwior ups his game. I've got to pray that Saliba stops his brain farts.Also with Saka being back, I had hoped we'd see proper setpieces again, something that Europeans can't handle, but what's the use when there is no Gabriel to get at the end of them.
Every time some good news comes, something stupid, that it feels like we could have avoided must occur.
I really do hate this season, and I blame 80% of all calamites on this manager and his unearned hubris.
The Rookie tag doesn’t really work, it’s not inexperience it’s arrogance. Plus it’s exactly the same reason Postecoglou lost loads of players to injury this season….so whilst it’s annoying, it’s not something peculiar to Arteta.
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