Topic: Diogo Jota (Diogo José Teixeira da Silva)

[Dench57]

cya next season! (for a few weeks)

[Yorkykopite]

A big blow. But one way of looking at it is to say we're back where we were after the Bournemouth game when the injury was pronounced to be severe enough to keep him out for the rest of the season (and possibly the Euros).

So who steps up? Hopefully Darwin can have a Ronny Rosenthal end of season extravaganza where all the chaos is inflicted on the enemy and not ourselves for a little bit. Cody's playing well and with confidence, so that's good. Mo looked to have a bit of post-injury, post-Ramadan strength in him at the Cottage when an opponent bounced off him in the old style. And Mo will be burning with desire to win this thing. We know that. And then there's Jayden Danns, the most exciting striker to emerge from the Academy since Owen. There's something about him..... I'll leave it at that.

[HeartAndSoul]

 

Couldn't make it up, could you?

[Tiz Lad]

By my reckoning, Jota been at Liverpool for 221 games by the time Villa comes round (if he makes that) Will have missed 76 injured, 34%. Clinical finisher but you can't carry that level of absence

[Indomitable_Carp]

Gutting. Our most reliable goal scorer this season, bar none.

[newterp]

Gutting. Our most reliable goal scorer this season, bar none.

I think he hit the bar a few times.

[Buster Gonad]

Gutting. Our most reliable goal scorer this season, bar none.

Most clinical yes. Most reliable no.

[Knight]

Why training?

Our playing style requires the players to put in lots of physical effort. I suspect lots of sprints as part of the counter press.

The counter press needs forwards to be physical in challenges also.

Compared to some other teams we ask our forward players to do a lot more defensively. That potentially increases the chances of injury and/or magnifies the injury susceptibility of some players.


Most of our injuries seem to come from games rather than something that happens in training.

Arsenals and City’s forwards have to work really hard out of possession too in the counter press. It’s just how top teams work. Plenty of teams spend a lot more time out of possession than we do too and you perhaps have to work harder without the ball. I don’t know where we’ll rank in terms of games lost through injury come the end of the season but we’re consistently one of the most affected squads. Some of that is sick note players like Thiago, who I love but would probably be injured wherever he was. But some of it is probably down to what we’re doing in terms of the medical, physio, S&C side.

[farawayred]

I think he hit the bar a few times.

Al, where are you? You jinxed him!...

[Indomitable_Carp]

Most clinical yes. Most reliable no.

When he plays, we score.

[Buster Gonad]

When he plays, we score.

My point Exactly 

[kop306]

trent is going to have to play even better now to cover the loss of jota

[Hestoic]

We get no luck 

[StL-Dono]

What's his xG on high percentage chances taken from the training table?

[kaesarsosei]

I think Jota falls somewhere between the unlucky (eg Gomez) and the downright unacceptable (Thiago) in terms of his injury record.

The knee injury against Brentford was bad luck, and you can argue that him starting and playing 70 mins so soon after coming back from that was probably too much. The hamstring last season in literally the last second of the Arsenal match (I think?) was to my mind bad luck.

So while he has missed a lot of games, I do think there is a lot of bad luck involved compared to someone like Thiago where it is just beyond a joke. Gomez is the same, he never seems to tweak a hammy or a groin, its a 6-month+ job or he's for the most part always available.

[Sheer Magnetism]

Couldn't make it up, could you?

This kind of comment, especially about something this rudimentary, always makes me think of this:

[rossipersempre]

Just can't stay fit. Very frustrating at such a critical end to the season.

[Yorkykopite]

This kind of comment, especially about something this rudimentary, always makes me think of this:

Wonderful!

[AndyMuller]

This kind of comment, especially about something this rudimentary, always makes me think of this: