Lucas Digne - Signed

[Risso]

So that's three quarters of our first choice defence currently injured, as well as our defensive midfielder. Spawny vile eh?

[Axl Rose]

Where's the bloke we signed to cover at left back? Can't even remember his name.

Do you mean Hans Carl Ludwig Augustinsson

Aye, that's him, John!

[Ian.]

It’s ok, Young can play every match either left and right back. Probably be able to slot into midfield as well. We’ve got this.

Bloody hell, we’ve been dealt some serious bad luck with injuries.

[SamTheMouse]

Fucking hell, there's no way this is luck. Someone call the police!

[Beard82]

FFS - what did he do drop his neckless on it

[Ian.]

I wonder if Southgate can lend us some fullbacks, he always has a squad full of them.

[eamonn]

Can Naka or Morgan show some versatility to get a game?

[brontebilly]

Guilbert might get back in now at RB if Young switches over.

[Villafirst]

Apparently, Chambers can play at RB. Freddie is a specialist RB and has the speed to be effective under Gerrard's system. The club medics need to be questioned over why Cash & Kamara played on when they should've been withdrawn straightaway with their respective injuries. A tweaked hamstring isn't going to recover. The January transfer window can't come fast enough, and the WC break should help.

[markeeeebeeee2005]

We so often put injuries down to luck, or lack of. It is that but it is so much more from conditioning and recuperation to nutrition and rest. To be successful it would seem that our approach to all of these could benefit from a review along with our tactics and approach to training.

[paul_e]

We so often put injuries down to luck, or lack of. It is that but it is so much more from conditioning and recuperation to nutrition and rest. To be successful it would seem that our approach to all of these could benefit from a review along with our tactics and approach to training.

Those factors would be more important if we were seeing muscular injuries but what we've had so far, other than Cash, have been stress injuries which are far more likely to be one-off problems that are hard to mitigate for.

[Risso]

Plus Carlos was injured at the end of only his second game for us, which even if we had the worst strength and conditioning staff in the world wouldn't be time for it to have en effect.  We've just been unlucky. Carlos landed funny after an aerial challenge with Onana, and Kamara appeared to twist his knee in a tackle with a Saints player.

[markeeeebeeee2005]

Both very fair points Paul and Russo.

[paul_e]

Plus Carlos was injured at the end of only his second game for us, which even if we had the worst strength and conditioning staff in the world wouldn't be time for it to have en effect.  We've just been unlucky. Carlos landed funny after an aerial challenge with Onana, and Kamara appeared to twist his knee in a tackle with a Saints player.

Yep both stress injuries I suspect, as is Digne's. It's the same sort of injuries that you often see in fast bowlers because of the amount of pressure applied to specific joints, etc. In cricket this has been a known issue for many, many years and has expert medical staff working with players and it's still unavoidable.

[Gareth]

I haven’t really seen anything of Augustinsson other than the 45 minutes or so in Australia - really hoping he is not another bomb on full back - be interesting to see team play with two full backs staying at home and maybe 2/3rds if the midfield won’t need to play as auxiliary full backs?