The British media "The Sun" Manchester United reporter Luke Hurst wrote an article, talking about the current injury situation of the team. With Lima recovering from injury and returning to team training, Manchester United currently has no injured players.
Reporters stated that during Ten Hag's coaching period two years ago, Manchester United had 66 independent injury cases. In the 2023/24 season, Manchester United had 10 players absent due to injuries in September. United finished eighth that season.
Now, Manchester United's injury situation is showing a significantly positive trend. This season, only Martinez, Mazraoui, Cunha, Mount, Dalot and Maguire have experienced injury truces.
Excluding Martinez, Manchester United players have only missed 9 games due to injury, which is a very small number. Among the above-mentioned players, the one who has been out for the longest time is Mazrawi. He was absent for four weeks, half of which coincided with the international match day in October.
The reporter believes that the significant reduction in the number of injuries at Manchester United is undoubtedly due to the reduction in game load. They played 60 games last season and may only need to play 40 this season. In addition, Amorim continued Ten Hag's tradition of attaching importance to resuming training the next day after the game.
In addition, the £50 million renovation of the Carrington training base will naturally provide Manchester United with better facilities.
The more critical point is that Ten Hag did not bring his own fitness coach when he coached Manchester United, while Amorim brought Paulo Barrera. Barrera has worked for Liverpool and Arsenal. He graduated from Liverpool John Moores University and his doctoral thesis research focused on the prevention of hamstring injuries.