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Comparing the MLS Eastern Conference Teams’ Games Lost to Injury
As any fan of Orlando City would be able to tell you, the team's inaugural MLS season has been riddled with injuries to key players. Because of this, the performance of the club has been hampered and results have recently been hard to come by. Most fans of other teams would argue that their team also has had injury problems and that every club must deal with injuries.
So, I decided to figure out just how many players for each team in the Eastern Conference have missed games, and how many games each player has missed.
As I suspected, Orlando has the most players that have missed games, with 16 different players — most of them missing five games or more. After going through all of the teams, I added up all the total man-games lost for each team (the sum of all of a team's players' games missed). Orlando once again won this category outright, with a total of 147 man-games lost, with the only team close to Orlando being Montreal, which has 90 man-games lost.
This really shows just how badly Orlando was hit with the injury bug this season. It's an unfortunate part of the game for soccer and it's really no one's fault that so many players took a bad step or tweaked a muscle. These things just happen in the game and, in Orlando's case, it just happened a heck of a lot of times. But don't just take my word for it, take a look below for a complete breakdown of all the teams, as well as their total games lost to injury. Just as a convenience, I put Orlando first and every other team in alphabetical order.
All data has been collected from http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ as well as from other SB Nation sites and editors. These numbers aren't official, but are the best available data we have. Please note these man-games lost are to injury only and do not include suspensions or international call-ups.
Orlando City
Losses: 13
16 Players Injured
147 man-games lost
GK Tally Hall – 10 games
D/M Brek Shea – 11 games
D Aurelien Collin – 6 games
D Seb Hines – 7 games
D Rafael Ramos – 6 games
D Conor Donovan – 4 games
D Sean St. Ledger – 4 games
M Kaka – 1 game
M Lewis Neal – 11 games
M Harrison Heath – 9 games
M Tony Cascio – 24 games
M Kevin Molino – 20 games
M Cristian Higuita – 6 games
M Carlos Rivas – 3 games
F Pedro Ribeiro – 8 games
F Martin Paterson – 17 games
Chicago Fire
Losses: 15
7 Players Injured
50 man-games lost
D Jeff Larentowcz – 4 games
M Matt Watson – 1 game
M Chris Ritter – 6 games
F David Accam – 6 games
F Gilberto – 1 game
F Patrick Nyarko – 15 games
F Mike McGee – 17 games
Columbus Crew SC
Losses: 9
5 Players Injured
29 man-games lost
D Emanuel Pogatetz – 2 games
D Chris Clute – 3 games
M Wil Trapp – 12 games
M Hector Jimenez – 1 game
M Sergio Campbell – 11 games
D.C. United
Losses: 10
9 Players Injured
64 man-games lost
GK Bill Hamid – 5 games
D Sean Franklin – 7 games
D Steve Birnbaum – 5 games
D Taylor Kemp – 1 game
M Nick DeLeon – 2 games
M Markus Halsti – 6 games
M Michael Faran – 14 games
F Fabian Espindola – 12 games
F Chris Pontius – 12 games
Losses: 11
8 Players Injured
90 man-games lost
D Hassoun Camara – 12 games
D Donny Toia – 2 games
D Eric Miller – 5 games
D Victor Cabrera – 4 games
M Eric Alexander – 6 games
M Justin Mapp – 20 games
F Kenny Cooper – 19 games
F Cameron Porter – 22 games
New England Revolution
Losses: 9
6 Players Injured
53 man-games lost
GK Bobby Shuttleworth – 2 games
D Darrius Barnes – 24 games
D Kevin Alston – 3 games
D Jose Goncalves – 3 games
M Jermaine Jones – 14 games
M Diago Kobayashi – 7 games
New York City FC
Losses: 13
10 Players Injured
63 man-games lost
D Connor Brandt – 6 games
D Jason Hernandez – 2 games
M Javier Calle – 4 games
M Ned Grabavoy – 3 games
M Mehdi Ballouchy – 4 games
M Sebastian Velasquez – 5 games
M Frank Lampard – 6 games
F Khiry Shelton – 9 games
F Tony Taylor – 20 games
F David Villa – 4 games
New York Red Bulls
Losses: 7
7 Players Injured
60 man-games lost
D Ronald Zubar – 19 games
D Kemar Lawrence – 1 game
D Roy Miller – 18 games
D Damien Perrinelle – 3 games
D Chris Duvall – 11 games
M Sal Zizzo – 6 games
F Lloyd Sam – 2 games
Philadelphia Union
Losses: 14
12 Players Injured
60 man-games lost
GK Andre Blake – 6 games
GK Brian Sylvestre – 5 games
D Steven Vitoria – 9 games
D Maurice Edu – 5 games
M Vincent Nogueira – 2 games
M Michael Lahoud – 11 games
M Cristian Maidana – 3 games
F Sebastian Le Toux – 2 games
F Fernando Aristeguieta – 5 games
F Andrew Wenger – 5 games
F Conor Casey – 4 games
F C.J. Sapong – 3 games
Toronto FC
Losses: 11
11 Players Injured
49 man-games lost
GK Joe Bendik – 4 games
D Damien Perquis – 5 games
D Nick Hagglund – 3 games
D Josh Williams – 2 games
D Clement Simonin – 24 games
M Benoit Cheyrou – 1 game
M Daniel Lovitz- 2 games
M Collen Warner – 1 game
F Jozy Altidore – 2 games
F Luke Moore – 4 games
F Robbie Findley – 1 game
So, what do you think about all of Orlando's injuries? Does it warrant the current losing streak the team is on? Let us know in the comments below.