I mean it’s good if he’s fit to play.
I suppose it has been 3.5 weeks since the hammy issue, typically strains are normally 21 days or so.
He wasn’t even in the squad for the last match.
They’re definitely rushing him back because of Vini’s injury.
There is huge pressure on Brazil to win here. They haven’t won a game since September.
The Brazilian FA will never trust another Arsenal injury report.
He will probably pull his hammy 10 minutes into the game and come back to Colney with the meat just hanging from the bone. INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL OUT !
Is this Brazil vs Argentina game on telly in the U.S.?
If Jesus has been fit, wtf has he not been playing for us??
He’s defo gonna be unfit for our next game
Yup
It would be negligence on our part if we start him on Saturday. He should ride the bench and probably shouldn’t come off the bench unless we need a goal
It was a hamstring that’s normally 21 days no ? It has now been 25.
Yeah great, cheers brazil. Even if he doesn’t get injured we now can’t start him ourselves.
No worries. If he continues to miss games for us due to injuries, regardless of who he was playing for when he got them, Arteta will find a replacement. I don’t think he’ll accept Jesus continuing to miss a few months for us each season.
I wouldn’t go that far.
First of all, he didn’t have a big injury and a big time outside of the pitch recently. If he’s fit to play he’s fit. I’m happy that’s the case, rather than having him jogging around our training centre.
If everything goes well he should be fine with making an appearance on saturday.
Wouldn’t be a problem for him even to start if he had a day or two more in between, but the change of time zones in a relatively short time is a much bigger issue here than him playing too many minutes. If we were playing a midweek CL game I don’t think many would complain about him starting again on the weekend.
I think people are getting too allegic to international football. The guy is simply injury prone and has the same chance to get injured here or at with the NT (actually it more oftens happens here). Him getting injured at the club doesn’t really make it any better.
If he’s fit to play he should play for the NT.
I hate interntational football because it’s boring and I’m kinda not taking it too seriusly for more than a decade now… But all the constant complaints about the “notorious injuries while out on international duty” have gotten way too irritating for a while now.
Then there’s an argument to be had about why it wasn’t done the previous summer. Which I think a few people have scratched the surface on.
I guess 1 season is unlucky, 2 seasons is a pattern.
Still don’t think we have enough data to say he’s injury prone, but once he’s back playing, am expecting him to not miss more than a week or two till the end of the season, to be considered reliable.
Yeah I actually don’t disagree to be fair. I think sometimes I’m way too vague and punchy with responses that I don’t really construct my whole opinion.
Injuries aside I think we always looked a touch light coming into the season up front. Sometimes we don’t even need a trend line to forecast injuries, it can be as simple as a one off freak injury meaning we are reliant on Eddie to carry us. I’m perhaps not as harsh on him as some others but firmly sit in the camp that he’s a sub-par solution for longer stretches in the season.
I feel like I’m hitting a new topic here a bit but that’s why I come back to the point I made.
Whether this was the case at the start of the season or not, now, with the injuries and the lack of fluency/potency in our attack (when compared to last season), this is increasingly the case. Every miss is more costly.
Agreed. I’d go as far as saying Jesus is a sub-par solution for us if we consider him as a pure striker. He does lot more than an out an out striker with his build up play which leads to others getting goals but we still need a lethal striker up front IMO.