- Aug 12, 2005
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I can't remember who or when it was but does someone have a link to the paper written by a club coach somewhere which analysed the average number of points dropped following a game 3 days or less prior to the league game?
... The sooner people realise at least part of the reason we under performed and then lost is the Europa league. Wish i'd kept a link to it, it says on average you lose 0.5 points the following Sunday for every Thursday Europa league game... Frankly I think we lose more.
I understand why people want to us to go for the Europa league, it's a cup after all and fingers crossed we could be good enough to get both a cup and champions league football. Wouldn't that be grand. What I dont understand is people who don't accept the Europa league will impact our premier league matches, like it did yesterday... Christ, Kyle Walker was in russia but 4 days ago, through god knows how many timezones and at least one of the goals was his fault.
Edit:
Found the paper,
backs everything up with stats for those who still, unbelievably don't understand the EL campaign costs us points in the league.
http://worldfootballacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/WFA_Study-on-recovery-days.pdf
... The sooner people realise at least part of the reason we under performed and then lost is the Europa league. Wish i'd kept a link to it, it says on average you lose 0.5 points the following Sunday for every Thursday Europa league game... Frankly I think we lose more.
I understand why people want to us to go for the Europa league, it's a cup after all and fingers crossed we could be good enough to get both a cup and champions league football. Wouldn't that be grand. What I dont understand is people who don't accept the Europa league will impact our premier league matches, like it did yesterday... Christ, Kyle Walker was in russia but 4 days ago, through god knows how many timezones and at least one of the goals was his fault.
Edit:
Found the paper,
backs everything up with stats for those who still, unbelievably don't understand the EL campaign costs us points in the league.
http://worldfootballacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/WFA_Study-on-recovery-days.pdf