How to solve the injury problems
Injury analyst Ben Dinnery has claimed that having stability at the club long-term will help ease the injury burden on the players going forward.
“The quick answer [to Chelsea’s injury problems] is that there’s no magic bullet,” he told football.london, on behalf of Crypto Casino.
There are multiple influences and factors on what, how, where and when. One of the most obvious considerations is stability within the club. Chelsea have always been a club with an excellent injury record going back to Guus Hiddink and Jose Mourinho, they were always there or there about having one of the best injury records.
“What the research will show is that changes within the backroom staff will have a serious impact on that injury burden. We started to see a rise in the number of incidents from Thomas Tuchel and then on to Graham Potter. In the space of five-to-six months, the incident levels almost doubled. Then under Frank Lampard, they continued to rise.
“The research will say that if you bring a head coach, it may have some impact because of new training regimes and tactics, but when you’re bringing in additional members of staff then you’ll see a distinct impact. One research paper indicates when we look at hamstring injuries, that burden can almost triple in terms of the changing of head coach and backroom staff.
“I think having that stability moving forward, providing they keep Pochettino, will lower that injury burden. You obviously have players coming into a league for the first time and they’re young. What the data will tell us is it’s incomparable in terms to the demands of the game and the intensity.”
