Thomas Partey: Body Falling Apartey

[freeglennhelder2]

In this position, on this run of form, at this moment in time, you'd have to be certifiably insane to rest Partey in the Premiership.

 

[jones]

Nope! we have to take this game by game. We can't think about games in the future, you can get burnt. Brentford are no mugs. Play partey all PL games, plenty of time to rest during EL.

Partey managed 24 league games each last two seasons, one of them we were out of Europe entirely. We have City and two away games after Brentford within ten days.

Even if we benched him for deeper rounds in Europe (which we shouldn't) it'd be an unnecessary risk to rely on him playing all games and from our five games in February the home game vs Brentford is easily first choice.

 

[jones]

In this position, on this run of form, at this moment in time, you'd have to be certifiably insane to rest Partey in the Premiership.

Partey missed three games this season already, since then he's started 13 consecutive matches for us which is the longest continuous spell he's had in the team since he came here. Only insane thing is to rely on him to all of a sudden become as reliable as Xhaka or Saka.

 

[freeglennhelder2]

Partey missed three games this season already, since then he's started 13 consecutive matches for us which is the longest continuous spell he's had in the team since he came here. Only insane thing is to rely on him to all of a sudden become as reliable as Xhaka or Saka.

Get what you mean, but strongly disagree. Partey + Xhaka is a golden combo for our system. Don't F with it. Take every point now while you can. Rotating them out for league games is a false economy. As soon as you start to try and be clever you will get bit in other ways, seen this happen numerous times.

Don't take any team for granted in the Prem. Will be surprised if Major Artetta rests/rotates a fit Partey or Xhaka.

 

[jones]

Get what you mean, but strongly disagree. Partey + Xhaka is a golden combo for our system. Don't F with it. Take every point now while you can. Rotating them out for league games is a false economy. As soon as you start to try and be clever you will get bit in other ways, seen this happen numerous times.

Don't take any team for granted in the Prem. Will be surprised if Major Artetta rests/rotates a fit Partey or Xhaka.

Yeah we've seen points dropped but we've also seen Partey break down numerous times. We've won league games without Partey, we've never played Partey for several months at a time without him missing weeks afterwards.

 

[freeglennhelder2]

Let's the what the Boss does. Happy to go with his call. I don't really know Jorgino that well but Im guessing even a declining Jorgino is improved cover over what we had before.

 

[drippin]

Yeah we've seen points dropped but we've also seen Partey break down numerous times. We've won league games without Partey, we've never played Partey for several months at a time without him missing weeks afterwards.

The schedule hasn't been very tough yet. You don't risk an EPL game just to rest him out of fear.

Partey can start, and if there is a 2-0 lead for example, you can take him out early for Jorginho. If there is a 1-0 lead, you either don't take him out, depending on the next game, or you sub Jorginho in at 75-80+ minutes.

 

[pigge]

Partey have a great injury record, except for last year. Could have just been a freak year. Or if we are unlucky it is him getting older and premier league is more physical.

But it might be a premature conclusion to call him injury prone after one season of injuries.

 

[Sanis]

If Partey's fit, we're not resting him. We're playing a game every 7/8 days now.

Also, Goodison Park has always been a tough away game for us. Can't take it lightly even though Everton are ****.

 

[Gooner Zig]

Partey managed 24 league games each last two seasons, one of them we were out of Europe entirely. We have City and two away games after Brentford within ten days.

Even if we benched him for deeper rounds in Europe (which we shouldn't) it'd be an unnecessary risk to rely on him playing all games and from our five games in February the home game vs Brentford is easily first choice.

Partey missed three games this season already, since then he's started 13 consecutive matches for us which is the longest continuous spell he's had in the team since he came here. Only insane thing is to rely on him to all of a sudden become as reliable as Xhaka or Saka.

From what I remember, Partey barely missed a game when he was at Atleti. I do recall Simeone managing his minutes tightly and subbing him regularly at 70 minutes. Now that we have Jorginho, perhaps it would be a matter of starting Partey in the PL and taking him off at around the 70-80 minute mark, especially if we're in control.

 

[jones]

The schedule hasn't been very tough yet. You don't risk an EPL game just to rest him out of fear.

Partey can start, and if there is a 2-0 lead for example, you can take him out early for Jorginho. If there is a 1-0 lead, you either don't take him out, depending on the next game, or you sub Jorginho in at 75-80+ minutes.

We've had a bunch of physically demanding games in January vs Sp**s United Newcastle and City, in February we've got five games in 21 days, three away fixtures one vs City and one vs Brentford just four days before that.

We've already entered new territory with him fitnesswise, you absolutely have to rotate at some point. I don't see an easier game than Brentford at home to do it in, a game where on top of it we can expect to dominate possession where Jorginho would come in handy.

 

[Uncle Good-Advice]

From what I remember, Partey barely missed a game when he was at Atleti. I do recall Simeone managing his minutes tightly and subbing him regularly at 70 minutes. Now that we have Jorginho, perhaps it would be a matter of starting Partey in the PL and taking him off at around the 70-80 minute mark, especially if we're in control

It's a good point. To me we have few phases in our game - we usually start halves very intensively, then the intensity drops a bit. If the plan is to play Partey, our probably most important player in CM, around 70 minutes per game we may plan accordingly and be more adventurous in first half as we won't be that cautious with Partey's stamina.

 

[jones]

From what I remember, Partey barely missed a game when he was at Atleti. I do recall Simeone managing his minutes tightly and subbing him regularly at 70 minutes. Now that we have Jorginho, perhaps it would be a matter of starting Partey in the PL and taking him off at around the 70-80 minute mark, especially if we're in control.

I don't think Simeone managed his minutes really, he just wasn't injury prone back then as he was never a nailed on starter while he is for us. I don't think taking 10-15 minutes off every game will help that much, from my limited knowledge of managing football fitness it does relatively little to prevent injuries.

It's still Brentford at home ffs, yes there are no joke teams in England etc but we've smashed them 3-0 away I'd expect us to win this game even if Partey was injured.

 

[DUFFMAN]

He wasn’t in any of the training pics from today.

 

[Sniper Mik]

He wasn’t in any of the training pics from today.

Looks like him. Not sure though

 

[TH14shahriar]

He wasn’t in any of the training pics from today.

He is, and even if he wasn't. The club been doing this a lot, Saka was not in a training picture pre NLD, but then he started. You can relax my man.

 

[TH14shahriar]

Looks like him. Not sure though

It's him, look at his boots.

 

[SA Gunner]

Looks like him. Not sure though

Its him, there's nothing to worry about.

Are we going to say that Jorginho is also injured now?

 

[DUFFMAN]

Phew

 

[pigge]

Phew

Coulda been a ban, cancelled and gotten fired. Got lucky this time