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- football@lemmy.world
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Games gone soft
Too many games, high intensity football, lack of proper rotations
And its only going to get worse next year because of the new format for European competitions
Hogh intensity football is an underrated aspect imo. 5 sears ago most of the lesser teams would play low blocks and sit back. Today almost every team plays a high press but not all the players are built for it.
And 10 early 2000s small teams didn’t even play low blocks just generically bad football with a bit of defence, bit of attack no tactical fouls and big sides would play bottom half clubs in cruise control.
The game is better for smaller clubs being significantly more capable, it’s one change I wouldn’t want to undo at all, but something has to give and tournaments should not be expanding at all as a bare minimum. It’s getting worse not better
something has to give
I think 15% more things have given this year compared to previous years
Is 4 years enough of a sample to compare across?
Jurgen just loves a moan…
his style of play is the main cause. high press, high intensity for 90+ minutes.
Liverpool don’t even have an injury problem this year compared to the rest. What are you on about?
- coincidence
Has VAR also played some role here? I can imagine having 1-2 minute pauses several times a game can make you cool off pretty quickly and your muscles become more injury prone. I believe that’s actually what happened to van de Ven in the Tottenham - Chelsea game for example
Van De Ven did not do his hamstring just because of a VAR pause. If the pauses were an issue you’d see it all the time in Rugby, which you don’t…
We’d also see the field become a casualty ward after half time in every game.
New stoppage time rule? Did everyone forget about this.
We just had a world Cup in the middle of a season, of course it will impact the following season
World cup winter, no break
I casted a curse on them thats why…/s jesus fuck most of them play 60+ games a season. Thats why
No rotation
I mean a sample of 5 is pretty small, but the UK had a lot more rain than average in September and October so maybe softer grounds make it more likely for players to lose control when they’re competing flat out. 🤷🏻
Hello December world cup, do you remember that BBC, you know when Gaz Lineker went over there to say what he thought etc?
the incredible amount of extra minutes at the end of games. Adding an extra 15 minutes a game after ten games is almost two whole other games. Added to that fact that folks tend to get injured when they are completely exhausted.
Player contracts need an equivalent of “overtime” clauses; i.e.: anything above 50 games per year incurs a per-game appearance fee, bar any cup finals.
Perhaps even more granular with total minutes tracked.