Sutekh CountryRoyal I think given the injuries it’s borderline miraculous we’ve maintained our top 6 position for quite as long, no team has any right to win promotion playing Semedo as an attacking midfielder and an inexperienced centre back at right back for most the season
We’ve done incredibly well given the circumstances. Should we fail to go up it will definitely feel like the one that got away.
Injuries
Failure to recruit in January
Managerial mistakes
Costly misses
I had most of the data yesterday, updated it for this game.
Here are the main players in terms of percentage of time on the pitch
Our two DM's top the list but only yesterday's game got our
captain past 2/3 of possible minutes, and Morrison has
missed almost 20% of minutes and will end up on 25%
For two experienced defenders to be out that much is TOUGH!
I would say our "First" back Four is Yiadom, Moore, Morrison, Richards
These have played
29% Yiadom
69% Moore
79% Richards
83% Morrison
No idea, what the stat is for games where all four have started and finished
but I suspect it is horribly low. I know Holmes, McIntyre stepped in (and Esteves
and Gibson) but, well though some played some of the time, all four have
blundered and cost points. That isn't any disrespect esp Holmes-McIntyre
who I very much hope will be first on the team-sheet for the next five seasons.
SWIFT is surely an almost auto-choice yet he wallows down the bottom on 15%
And I was very surprised to see Joao has missed almost a quarter of the season
(yet still scored 19 League goals). (Yes, I'm aware he is currently out-of-form)
Meite has missed 63% of the season, more or less two-thirds
Puscas has missed 81%
No doubt other sides have missed important players too,
but in the cold light of day, this does look overwhelming.
Surely with our best 11/12/13/14 fit all season we'd be at least top three?
40 00 40 3,555 97.13% Josh Laurent
37 01 38 3,208 87.65% Andy Rinomhota
35 00 35 3,045 83.20% Michael Morrison
33 06 39 2,933 80.14% Michael Olise
33 03 36 2,888 78.91% Omar Richards
33 01 34 2,832 77.38% Ove Ejaria
33 03 36 2,831 77.35% Lucas Joao
28 00 28 2,514 68.69% Liam Moore
25 09 34 2,296 62.73% Tom Holmes
23 12 35 1,992 54.43% Alfa Semedo
16 10 26 1,555 42.49% Tom McIntyre
15 05 20 1,352 36.94% Yakou Meite
12 15 27 1,110 30.33% Tomas Esteves
13 03 16 1,094 29.89% Andy Yiadom
09 21 30 0,969 26.48% Sone Aluko
08 10 18 0,728 19.89% George Puscas
06 05 11 0,650 17.76% Lewis Gibson
07 02 09 0,563 15.38% John Swift
04 14 18 0,499 13.63% Sam Baldock