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12 minutes ago, VinceA said:

Veth is a shit stirrer. Fibre tear is very different to muscle tear. At no point did Nagelsmann say muscle tear. What a pompous ass.

Unless you're implying it's specifically tendon, what do you think the difference is in those two terms?

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1 minute ago, gator said:

 

All muscle strains are damage (usually  tears) of the muscle fibres. The hamstring has three tendons, yes, it's more of a muscle group than it's own muscle.  But a "tear" isn't the boogeyman most think it is. They're still 3 classes of tear/strain. You get no information from the terminology "tear", it could still be minor with only a small % of the fibres torn. It's only colloquially that we use tear to mean a significant injury. 

But this guy using one fibre = one entire muscle of the hamstrings is just weird and unnecessary 

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1 minute ago, Mattd97 said:

All muscle strains are damage (usually  tears) of the muscle fibres. The hamstring has three tendons, yes, it's more of a muscle group than it's own muscle.  But a "tear" isn't the boogeyman most think it is. They're still 3 classes of tear/strain. You get no information from the terminology "tear", it could still be minor with only a small % of the fibres torn. It's only colloquially that we use tear to mean a significant injury. 

But this guy using one fibre = one entire muscle of the hamstrings is just weird and unnecessary 

Hyperbole gets clicks.

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Yes, it seems reasonable to trust the outlook of this injury to Twitter “experts” who can’t figure out FIFA rules. 
 

Also, on the topic of stupidity. How can this be blamed on the World Cup being mid season? People out here really think you have a better chance of being injured mid season than at the end of a 50 game season? Wild. 

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7 minutes ago, CanadaFan123 said:

Yes, it seems reasonable to trust the outlook of this injury to Twitter “experts” who can’t figure out FIFA rules. 
 

Also, on the topic of stupidity. How can this be blamed on the World Cup being mid season? People out here really think you have a better chance of being injured mid season than at the end of a 50 game season? Wild. 

It's the compressed nature of the schedules in order to squeeze in the World Cup. Teams are playing midweek matches nearly every week.

This follows a compressed 2021-22 season due to COVID, with major tournaments and World Cup qualifying also thrown in, so players have been grinding for a very long stretch.

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1 minute ago, RS said:

It's the compressed nature of the schedules in order to squeeze in the World Cup. Teams are playing midweek matches nearly every week.

This follows a compressed 2021-22 season due to COVID, with major tournaments and World Cup qualifying also thrown in, so players have been grinding for a very long stretch.

No doubt, but those factors are variables regardless of the timing of the World Cup. If this was in June-July 2022 it would have been even worse. 

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2 minutes ago, RS said:

It's the compressed nature of the schedules in order to squeeze in the World Cup. Teams are playing midweek matches nearly every week.

This follows a compressed 2021-22 season due to COVID, with major tournaments and World Cup qualifying also thrown in, so players have been grinding for a very long stretch.

No top player is playing anything out of the ordinary. Most leagues started early, many have put their cup matches back.

Bayern even qualified early out of the CL group.

And Davies wasn't even at full sprint or in a dire defensive play when felt the tweak.

End of season final push for silverware after 45 games is higher physical and psychological stress 

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Just now, CanadaFan123 said:

No doubt, but those factors are variables regardless of the timing of the World Cup. If this was in June-July 2022 it would have been even worse. 

It might have been, yeah. There's no way or knowing for sure.

Although I think the cumulative effects could be worse now thanks to the one-two punch of COVID compressing everything and the winter World Cup forcing even more compression. If you remove one of those factors it may not be as bad.

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Just now, Unnamed Trialist said:

No top player is playing anything out of the ordinary. Most leagues started early, many have put their cup matches back.

It's most certainly out of the ordinary to have the CL/UEL/UECL group stages finished already, and if the leagues started early that means players lost out on crucial rest over the summer (especially since most high level players were playing international matches in June).

The 2021-22 season was also out of the ordinary thanks to COVID rescheduling, then you had three-match international windows thrown in to catch up for lost time. UEFA even did a four-day window in June for Nations League. 

This all adds up, and players are still human at the end of the day.

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32 minutes ago, The Beaver 2.0 said:

I was literally clicking this thread thinking "please, no bad news. please."  

FFS

We can't even blame CONCACAF for this one. 

Bayern acts like Davies is a piece of glass when playing in CONCACAF. These motherfuckers recalled him back to Germany in September 2021 over a slight knock. When the truth of the matter is, Davies gets more roughed up playing for Bayern than he does playing for Canada.

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25 minutes ago, Ally McCoist said:

Bayern acts like Davies is a piece of glass when playing in CONCACAF. These motherfuckers recalled him back to Germany in September 2021 over a slight knock. When the truth of the matter is, Davies gets more roughed up playing for Bayern than he does playing for Canada.

He was creamed a few times vs Haiti think it was. We were lucky Honduras or El Salvador weren't playing for keeps. 

You trust CONCACAF refs and rivals over Bundesliga?

In any case, this wasn't a foul, he was all alone when it happened, for me your "roughed up" point doesn't make sense.

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