Some of our favorite star footballers are injured again, let’s take a look at who’s injured and what the injuries are. For some common sports injuries and best recovery, read this article.
Who is injured?
Former Chelsea man Eden Hazard is injured again at his pretty unlucky stint at Real Madrid. After coming back from a 2-month layoff, he limped off against Elche on Saturday. His manager Zinedine Zidane continues to support his big money transfer, the guy that was supposed to fill Ronaldo’s boots but must be frustrated with the number of injuries Hazard has been getting. Since his move to Madrid, for €100 million euros from Chelsea in the summer of 2019, he has only featured 36 times and only started 20 league games out of a possible 65 games. That’s only just 30% attendance, for a school kid that would mean instant expulsion.
Our favorite K-Pop all-singing but no dancing Korean, Son Heung-Min is injured currently at Tottenham Hotspur with a hamstring pull. Usually fast players that rely on quick bursts of speed see the hamstring as a common muscle to injure. The relatively young Michael Owen was forced to retire because of repeated hamstring tears and injuries.
Groin Injuries
Thiago Silva the former Brazilian Captain who made his switch from PSG to Chelsea in the summer is crooked with a thigh injury currently. Leeds forward Patrick Bamford, the leading English scorer in the Premiership, is currently injured with a groin strain. The same injury as James Maddison of Leicester and Liverpool’s talismanic captain marvelous Jordan Henderson. Another 2 top players Anthony Martial of Manchester United and the mercurial Allan Saint Maximin at Newcastle are also sidelined with groin injuries.
Liverpool Is the Perfect Example of How odds Can Change in your Favour
Injuries are never a good thing for footballers, but they are also part of the game and sports bettors take full advantage. For example, Liverpool is the perfect example as the Premier League winners dropped from the dizzy heights of dominance to fighting even for a UEFA cup spot let alone a place in next season’s Champions League.
Even while you are watching a live football stream, and one of the star players comes off injured, it can change the dynamics of the game. This is where in-play bets help. Also, if you are unsure how an injured player being out of the squad for a game harms the odds of a team winning or even conceding, then you can find match predictions for you to place the right bets. Reading betting tips will help you understand where teams are potentially weak and why. Once again, you have to look at Liverpool to understand just how much an injury can affect a team!
Why is this Season seeing so many Muscle Injuries?
The fixture congestion has to be one big reason and the shorter season because of Covid. Never before have Premiership players had to play these many games in such a short space of time. It is why we are being spoilt with midweek games, Monday night football and Friday night football as well as the regular weekend games. It’s almost a game every day.
So, a few clubs including Aston Villa, Wolverhampton and Fulham had to postpone games when their clubs went into lockdown after the quota of players were infected with Corona. Last season resumed on June 17th after half a year of lockdown so forced clubs to play a heady 90 games in 6 and a half weeks. Then the new season started pretty quickly after on the September 12th
Without any postponements there would have only been four spare midweeks for those playing in European competitions. But now all of those midweeks have been filled with postponed league games. So, this heavy fixture schedule (see a detailed report about it here) and all this football with no to little recovery time means players are pushing their bodies to breaking point.
Coming out of lockdown where they could not exercise to the same extent also meant they were not in peak physical shape when they came back to playing matches in June of last year. Weaker muscles mean more chances for tears and pulls and that is what we are seeing now.
With no rest up until the Champions League final on 29th May and then Euro 2021 due to start 13 days later, we need to protect these players and allow more rest time or substitutions in a match or we will see more of these injuries.
