17 | Kevin De Bruyne - 2022/23 Performances

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Mancini’s Pastilles said:
Hahahaha a 90 minute football match every 3 days wow its a tough life. Constant travelling? In ferrari to training? Or a top of the range comfort coach or a high spec private plane? Fuck me
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It’s a very tough life. Ian Wright had to stop playing when he did because he was told he might not be able to walk in later life because of what football had done to his ankles.

The levels of intensity required and enacted on the body (and mind) are incredible at the highest level.

Even a healthy injury-free player in his prime has to put his body through an enormous amount of strain that’s not really natural for humans to do. Human skeletal systems have evolved to be runners: bipedal, long limbs, large knees, large pelvis, large gluteus maximus, extended rotating waist, lowered shoulders and a ligament that’s only found in humans - the nuchal ligament, that has literally evolved to stop humans’ heads jolting forward when running.

However, we have actually not evolved to run with a ball at our feet in ever-changing and diverting directions with bent knees and our heads down while pushing off or being slide tackled by other humans. The structure of our knees and especially the ligaments in the knee are testament to that. I’d bet there are many more knee ligament injuries in football than in, say, marathon running at the elite level. We’ve probably got a few thousand years of playing football before our knee ligaments have actually evolved to be thick enough to endure sports like football and that would only happen if every human on Earth played football at the elite level, so as a species our knees are probably never going to be suited to playing football at the elite level.

So while playing 90 minutes of football at Wythenshawe Town’s level (eighth tier of English football) every three days whilst also working on site full-time is probably manageable while not ideal for human bodies; playing it at the most elite level is incredibly difficult no matter how much training they do.

And how many serious injuries has de Bruyne had? Playing as much football as he has in the last two years as someone who’s had the injuries he’s had, will probably have a life changing effect on his body.

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Kevin De Bruyne - Injury history

This is the injury history of Kevin De Bruyne from SSC Neapel. On this page injuries as well as suspensions.
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de Bruyne was injured for 63 days with a knee injury in 2015-16 and 108 days with a knee injury in 2018-19, and yet he’s only not started two Premier League games this season.

Plus a Ferrari or a private jet doesn’t stop you feeling the emotions of being twatted in the face in the biggest game of your life and having to come off when you’re the star player of the team who is losing 0-1 and you and the team have been shit, with the hopes and dreams of millions of fans and you’re own standards and expectations on your shoulders.
 
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Mancini’s Pastilles said:
Exactly, you see in these inside city videos players rocking up to work in designer clothes, their fancy car, arrive in and the chefs on hand to make them whatever they fancy to eat.. Train for a few hours, get massages etc... Also for away games a big fancy comfy bus or a first class private plane with WiFi etc. None of this queuing for a delayed Ryan Air flight... I could go on and on, I stand by it a footballers life is not tough it's a privilege
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Yep they then get paid an absolutely ridiculous amount of money.
Then spend the whole game rolling around pretending to be injured
 
Despite the beautiful assist, he wasted a bucket full of opportunities, either via delaying the pass too long, not executing a good decision well, or making the wrong decision.

I am still going to put it down to him trying to get back in to form after a very frustrating (and disruptive) WC.

After all, if you had to spend a month with Martinez, it’d take you a decent amount of time to get back in to a world class groove, too.
 
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Despite the beautiful assist, he wasted a bucket full of opportunities, either via delaying the pass too long, not executing a good decision well, or making the wrong decision.

I am still going to put it down to him trying to get back in to form after a very frustrating (and disruptive) WC.

After all, if you had to spend a month with Martinez, it’d take you a decent amount of time to get back in to a world class groove, too.
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Same could be said for Phil with Sir Gareth
 
Thought he did well today and could've had another couple assists if Mahrez and Alvarez timed their runs better

Was it just my imagination, though, or was his body language poor? Admittedly I did watch on a shite stream
 
Stickwell said:
Thought he did well today and could've had another couple assists if Mahrez and Alvarez timed their runs better

Was it just my imagination, though, or was his body language poor? Admittedly I did watch on a shite stream
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I think he was just frustrated with his performance.

I actually think Alvarez times most of his runs perfectly but Kev (and Ilkay) both delayed their passes too long.
 
Another fine assist but becoming a passenger for large parts of games.He looks unfit and not particularly arsed.

Should not be starting games on this form, and we need to be planning for his replacement.

Our team would be a different aggressive animal with two hungry young guns in the centre of the park.
 
Not been at his best this season but is still on 11 assists he's on his way to smashing that assist record.
 
Doesn't need to be touching the ball every single attack, he produces when the rest don't seem to have many ideas.

We looked like falling back into a slow ponderous routine of going side to side and giving Erling nothing whatsoever until kdb pops up with magic that breaks them down and opens the game up completely for us. That's what he's there for and nobody else can come close to doing it with the frequency he manages.
 
FantasyIreland said:
Another fine assist but becoming a passenger for large parts of games.He looks unfit and not particularly arsed.

Should not be starting games on this form, and we need to be planning for his replacement.

Our team would be a different aggressive animal with two hungry young guns in the centre of the park.
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I think you’ve hit the nail on the head - the engine room is not functioning even Rodders is struggling a bit - sacrilege I know but I fear KDB and Gundogan have hit “the wall” but we’ve been here before and we know how to sort it - I have faith we will forget about sentiment and do the right thing for the club - we moved on after Zabba, VK, Fern, Dave n Sergio and we will do the same again after Walker, KDB and Gundogan
 
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