Seriously - you are the one who brought up the PL goalkeeping coaches - not me.
My comment was that - in my opinion - to be a good goalkeeping coach you needed to play at a professional level. That was said in the context of the coach at Southampton - a coach who never played as a professional - and who hasn't seemed to be able to develop Bazunu one iota this season.
And by the way a cursory search shows most of the PL coaches were professional keepers - there are a couple you would have to dig deeper on but I sure they would be similar.
Has picked up an achilles injury during warm up apparently.
How bad is the injury?
Southampton won 3-0 as it goes.
Okay
I'll take the bait - and its not an exhaustive list as I am not spending my time going through foreign language sites.
Iñaki Caña
Neil Moss
Jelle ten Rouwelaar
Hilario
Dean Kiely
Alan Kelly
John Achterberg
Kevin Pilkington
Richard Wright
Adam Bartlett
Rui Barbosa
Matt Duke
Rob Burch
Xavi Valero
Neil Cutler
One shot all game and it was on target going by Livescore.
horrible injury ffs. martin claims it was a bad one aswell. hopefully scans come back with some positive news
yea - looks like he is done for the season - and that is not necessarily a bad thing. One of the biggest risk factors for reoccurrence is returning too quickly and not letting it heal properly. Rushing back for the playoffs might not be a good thing.
Just looking at some of the stats - and here is where they are very useful - only 4% of achilles injuries are partial or total rupture of the tendon. The average recovery time for a non-rupture injury is 23 days - for a partial or total rupture is 169-183 days. Worryingly - achilles injuries tend to happen to older players - it not good when you suffer such injuries at a younger age - the average age for the first such injury is in the 27-29 years group. 27% of all achilles injuries are re-injuries. 31% occurrence from short term (because players rush back) - 13% for longer-term injuries (this stuff is from the BMJ).
I watched first half. Southampton utterly dominant. I could have been in goal and it'd have made no difference!
In one sense it's maybe not a bad thing he's out of the firing line but I was hoping to see him in a play off final. I hope it's not too serious of course though.
Last edited by Stuttgart88; 17/04/2024 at 10:53 AM.
Sad for Bazunu but at least this thread will be quiet for a while.
Yep, the thread is playing with my brain. I've seen so many goals in the last week or so, EPL, Championship and L1 and also including Dortmund against Oblak for Atletico (I don't think many doubt Oblak's placing among the better goalkeepers in Europe) and Donnaruma vs Barca where Baz would have been crucified here had he conceded them in the same way!
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