Jake Kemp retweeted
Remembering Christian Atsu on his birthday. 🙏
We miss you, Christian. 🖤🤍
ALT Christian Atsu during his time with Newcastle United
An early build of a bespoke web app to plot and visualise football event data. The tool supplements match analysis across team, player and fixture levels.
The total number of congested fixtures per season has been increasing across Europe's Big 5 leagues.
A a game is deemed congested if it is played within 4 days of the previous fixture.
In the 2012/13 season Oscar played 62 congested games.
Chelsea won the Europa League, Super Cup, Club World Cup and reached the semi-finals of both the League and FA Cups with several members of the squad having high congestion. Oscar also won the Confederations Cup with Brazil.
The total number of games per season for international players in Europe's Big 5 leagues has remained stable over the last 10 seasons.
The increased rate of hamstring injuries can't simply be attributed to more games.
Increasing match demands? More fixture congestion?
Data from players competing in Europe's top five leagues since 2012 shows U20 players miss more games than older players when they suffer a hamstring injury.
Data from players involved in the Big 5 leagues since the 2018/19 season shows the time-loss impact of sustaining an injury is greater for young players.
On average, a 20 year old player will miss two more games when injured than a 30 year old professional.
Hamstring injuries have been the most common cause for absences across the Big 5 leagues, accounting for over 14% of all injuries.
This season, hamstring injuries have typically left players out for 26 days and missing 4 games.
Teams in the #Bundesliga have had the highest injury toll this season.
#SerieA #PremierLeague #Ligue1 #LaLiga
