I apologize in advance if this applies to you but I sincerely believe that if you think Ronaldo was ever close to Messi, you are of an objectively lower mental status than me, something akin to a sea urchin or maybe a mussel.
Declan Rice has mastered the art of looking busy on a football pitch. The casuals love it, the analytics guys love it, I see through it. He is not elite in any sense of the word, Another mark noble. A 3/10 on his best day. Overrated.
Jordan Henderson is a painfully limited footballer who's managed to make himself valuable mainly by yelling at much better players than himself, telling them what they should do, often things he can't or doesn't do.
Oh and he's a "great lad to have around the place" 👍
Unless your getting hammered or celebrating an occasion, drinking is such a pointless sport.
Baffles me why people come home and have a pint or a glass of wine on a weekday. Just makes you feel like shit and you need a lot to feel the effects properly.
Federico Chiesa hit his fastest top speed in two years during that 50m sprint to stop a certain Sunderland winner on Wednesday night. The last time he clocked close to that speed, he was playing for Juventus.
Performance and Medical staff's jobs have never been harder at the elite end of the game. The intensity and the lack of recovery time between games means players are generally walking an injury tightrope every week. But Chiesa couldn't perform a sprint like this and not get injured unless the fitness coaches at Liverpool were first class at what they do.
Hamstring strains are on the rise and account for 24% of all injuries in men’s pro football.
The majority of HSIs occur when players run over 25 km/h and above 80% of their maximal speed, and present recurrence rates of 18%.
Interestingly, when this injury occurs during a game, it has recently been shown that it is preceded by a short period (5 min) of an unusual amount of running at more than 21 km/h.
One of the best injury mitigation tools at your disposal is to make sure that you hit >90-95% of your max speed regularly in training so, when asked to do so in a game under fatigue, you've loaded your hamstrings to take the demands.