What does a doctor or physio do to cure someone of muscular injuries? Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation is still pretty much the advice here and maybe at this level they have some cool hydrotherapy or hypobaric chamber treatment too.
I doubt the doctors are promoting players taking the field when they don’t think they are ready to.
Maybe we just notice more because it’s our club but I thought it’s been a fairly common view for years that we suck with injuries.
We seem to get more and they seem to drag on for ages meanwhile Kane returns 6 weeks early every time the mouth breathing cunt.
I’ve thought for ages it must be something to do with the facilities or some training methods. Certainly ain’t the docs, occasionally we’ve rushed players back out of desperation (Partey and white last year) but nothing major.
Think it’s just that Harry Kane has been especially durable for a long time.
Xhaka healed Wolverine-style last season and nobody praised the doctors or anything. It’s just his body.
Is it well known we have more injuries than other clubs and have you got any evidence for this?
Nothing to do with the physiotherapists or doctors when it comes down to muscular injuries, only the player himself can say if he is physically capable of training or playing.
The docs can only observe and listen to the player.
Azeez has been playing DM for the reserves and isn’t in the squad today. He’ll likely be on our bench.
Just reading through this thread and I can’t get on board with those who think we should “rest” players. At this stage in the season the most important game is the next game. If you field a weaker team in order to save the better players for the harder game then you risk losing both games. I want to go to Old Trafford with a 100% record!
3-0. Jesus hat-trick. Xhaka a hat-trick of assists.
I was advocating some rotation but I think with Sambi coming into the side you need to surround him with the best players. Win the game, play well, let Sambi gain some confidence going into Old Trafford.
Martinelli-Jesus-Saka
–Xhaka–Odegaard
------Sambi--------
Tierney-Gabriel-Saliba-White
---------Ramsdale--------
I just had a look and you can get odds of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000/1.
It might be worth putting a few quid on that. 
Dropped points here with fans losing their minds going into deadline day just feels like the only possible outcome.
2-2 Mings ‘93
Pessimism aside for a moment. I hope Zinchenko is fit.
My hypothesis this season has been with White and Zinchenko playing inversed the number 6 position went from being by far our most important for how we play last year to having much less importance this.
Obviously there’s less quality on the pitch without partey which could be the difference against bigger teams. But I think the overall flow of the game should remain pretty unchanged. We’re still gonna dominate possession we’re still gonna have tonnes of touches in the box. Last year that would have been impossible.
So curious to see what Arteta does.
Easiest move is to play Sambi in midfield. He’ll have Xhaka next to him and a better backline than anything he played with last season.
This is going to be a tough game. Gerard will get his team up for it against us. We usually are the team that struggling clubs do well against.
And no Partey and Zinchenko means the left side will be limited in terms of attacking threat and our transitions wil be slow. Let’s see how we go. COYG!!
Gerard and Villa are shit…we got this
COYG
Put some nails in that Scouse twats coffin.
I’ll take a nice solid 2-0 win.
Matchday!
HERE WE GOOOO 
Even without Partey and Zinchenko, this is a game we have more than enough to win.
They’re in dire form. Jesus, go and fill yer boots son
Is Zinchenko definitely out? He’s been training, but the reports are a bit all over the place.
It would be Arsenal-esqe that when teams around us drop points, so do we. Think we’ll draw, but if we do get the W I can see us losing to Utd