Premier League players are 25 percent more likely to get injured when the championship resumes this season due to the busy schedule, according to a recent study. The executive director of the Premier League, Richard Master, has recently announced that he is convinced that the league will be able to renew in June, while now the clubs have returned to training in small groups of players.
The 2020/21 season is scheduled to begin in late August or early September, and before the start of that new season, the FA will have to make way for FA Cup matches as well. Based on the project to restart the season, Premier League matches will potentially return on June 20th. From that date until the end of the season, Manchester City will face at least 13 games in 49 days.
Manchester City have played one game less than most Premier League clubs, but these figures do not take into account the remaining matches until the end of the Champions League – potentially four games, if City go to the final. A study by Zone7, a company that specializes in predicting injury risk and working with 35 professional football clubs around the world – shows that developing eight games in a 30-day period increases the likelihood of player injury by 25 percent, compared to the development of four or five matches for the same time period.
This causes players to face increased risk in injuries when the season resumes, as in the second agenda they will have to make room for many matches within a short period of time.
