lancs blue
Player Valuation: £35m
Benitez has had them on a doner kebab diet. He swears by it
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Match fitness - 17 days without playing a game
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dutchblue54
Player Valuation: £20m
Can we get Sean Longstaff registered in time for the Brighton game ? At least he has match fitness
kenada_blue
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Benitez will be getting them doing shuttle runs to the chippy for him
Well it’s not difficult, they’ll presumably hold 60 min bounce games 11 a side to keep them match fit……we won’t know the scores , just the list of injuries after …
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
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Remember the "17-day break" in the winter of 2019, when we were reeling after Watford spanked us in a fit of venom directed at Silva. Silva decided not to take our underachievers on a trip to Dubai or whatnot, and drilled them at Finch Farm for the whole time. We came out of it with a 3-0 win at Cardiff (I remember DCL scoring a playful goal in stoppage time; I liked those kits)
That started a 6W, 3D, 2L run to the end of the season.
It's different now because there's so much uncertainty, not only over when we'll next play, but just COVID in general, from a human standpoint, forget football.
If used properly, though, it could be a good time to get bodies healthy and get them drilling together again. I get your point about match fitness but I'm not going to complain about letting our injuries clear up some.
I'm more of this view as well.
I am not overly familiar, but I don't think in countries where there is a winter break, you get a backlog of injuries on return. In fact the opposite seems to be true.
When you consider we can then likely get DCL, Coleman, Mina, Delph, Gbamin, Allan all back fully fit and have more miles in their legs from training and one or 2 others are further along the journey to fitness like Doucoure and at the other end Townsend, to me this is a decent bonus.
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I think the general notion of 'match fitness' is a bit of a myth peddled by managers and pundits to make excuses for failures. If a professional athletes would not run further and harder in a training session than an actual match then they have no business being a professional athlete because it's off the pitch where they would be spending their time building up muscles and lungs to full fitness.
I think what a lot of people confuse for match fitness is actually match sharpness, which is a whole different thing and can diminish over time when not playing. But given that players will during the course of a season be in and out of the team for a variety of reasons then 17 day gaps will be not unusual for any of them.
I think what a lot of people confuse for match fitness is actually match sharpness, which is a whole different thing and can diminish over time when not playing. But given that players will during the course of a season be in and out of the team for a variety of reasons then 17 day gaps will be not unusual for any of them.
Indeed, if Benitez and the club has any sense they're doing intensive tactical work and drills with the squad, identifying and addressing weaknesses.Marco Silva’s Everton timeline - how the dream slowly, irretrievably unravelled
A look back at the highs and lows of the former Blues manager’s 18 months on Merseyside
Remember the "17-day break" in the winter of 2019, when we were reeling after Watford spanked us in a fit of venom directed at Silva. Silva decided not to take our underachievers on a trip to Dubai or whatnot, and drilled them at Finch Farm for the whole time. We came out of it with a 3-0 win at Cardiff (I remember DCL scoring a playful goal in stoppage time; I liked those kits)
That started a 6W, 3D, 2L run to the end of the season.
It's different now because there's so much uncertainty, not only over when we'll next play, but just COVID in general, from a human standpoint, forget football.
If used properly, though, it could be a good time to get bodies healthy and get them drilling together again. I get your point about match fitness but I'm not going to complain about letting our injuries clear up some.
Dykovski200
Player Valuation: £10m
It’s been the best 17 days since the summer
Can you even imagine how unfit he’s going to be after nearly 3 weeks off eating Xmas dinners and turkey and stuffing sandwiches for over a week
Just when we got Rondon proper match fit as well.
What a shame he'll be starting from scratch again and we'll need to wait until the end of April now before we really see him at his best
What a shame he'll be starting from scratch again and we'll need to wait until the end of April now before we really see him at his best
twoblue
Player Valuation: £35m
Yeah, they should think about hiring fitness experts or the odd sports scientists maybe
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