Chelsea boss Emma Hayes has aimed a dig at Arsenal supervisor Jonas Eidevall for blaming Keira Walsh’s knee damage on the Ladies’s World Cup on a dry pitch.
Walsh was stretchered off in the course of the first half of England’s sport towards Denmark final week, leaving the sector after mouthing ‘I’ve performed my knee’ on tv to the staff’s medical division.
The Barcelona midfielder has averted an anterior cruciate ligament damage following a scan, however she is not going to be out there to play in England’s last group sport towards China.
Talking on the BBC, Eidevall had steered Walsh’s damage might have been brought on by the floor in Sydney, labelling the pitch as ‘too dry’.
‘The pitch appears very dry and you may see on the motion, when she slides with the correct foot that it stops and he or she then twists her knee,’ Eidevall mentioned.
England star Keira Walsh was compelled off with a knee damage within the Ladies’s World Cup
Arsenal supervisor Jonas Eidevall steered a dry pitch might have contributed to Walsh’s damage
However Emma Hayes branded the evaluation ‘lazy’ with the Chelsea boss calling for extra experience
‘I believe an instance of that was the celebrations on the primary aim that Lauren James scored. She tries to knee slide however you’ll be able to see, when she does which you could see she simply stops and falls over.’
Hayes, writing within the Telegraph, appeared to reference Eidevall’s remark by claiming it was ‘lazy’ guilty anterior cruciate ligament accidents on ‘enjoying too many video games’ or ‘the pitch is just too dry’.
The Chelsea boss additionally claimed nationwide groups and golf equipment have to recognise warning indicators of their gamers, as they search to minimise the dangers of ACL accidents.
Hayes steered there’s a lack of know-how in girls’s sport and mentioned golf equipment have to take a ‘multidisciplinary method’ to minimise damage dangers.
‘You must know what the crimson flags are and perceive them, and never ignore them,’ Hayes wrote.
‘You need to monitor all the pieces, and monitor the minutes gamers are enjoying, monitor what number of video games they’ve performed per calendar yr, monitor once they decide up their damage processes, spot the crimson flags, and it is so multi-factorial that it requires high-level expert multi-disciplinary groups to have the ability to resolve that.
‘We have wished to prepared the ground at Chelsea because of this as a result of we wish folks to spend money on experience in girls’s health and girls’s sport. So we now have a girls’s well being coach.
‘Now we have a pelvic ground coach. Now we have motion programmes designed to assist the gamers take care of completely different phases of their interval. It is all individualised to every participant and their physique, and we consider in these items, wholeheartedly.’
Leah Williamson was amongst 4 Arsenal stars to endure ACL accidents throughout a six-month interval
Chelsea have additionally used Orreco’s FitrWoman app to watch their gamers’ menstrual cycles in a bid to cut back their susceptibility to comfortable tissue accidents, together with ACLs.
Since 2018, solely two Chelsea gamers have ruptured their ACL – Maren Mjelde and Lucy Watson, who was on mortgage at Charlton on the time.
Arsenal, nonetheless, have been badly hit with Leah Williamson, Beth Mead, Vivianne Miedema and Laura Wienroither all struggling ACL accidents inside a six month interval final season.
Eidevall was essential of the pitch at Leigh Sports activities Village, the place Williamson sustained the damage, however Mead and Vivianne Miedema each ruptured their ACL’s on the Emirates.
In October 2020, former Arsenal boss Joe Montemurro mentioned the membership have been conducting a ‘huge’ inner overview after seven first-team stars have been sidelined by damage.
Eidevall has beforehand mentioned Arsenal have a continuous means of auditing accidents however admitted additionally they should look inwards.
‘We as a membership have to have a look at the components that we are able to management and be nearly as good as doable,’ Eidevall mentioned. ‘We aren’t sticking our heads within the sand and simply blaming all exterior components. Now we have to look inside and first see what we are able to change and try this.’
