[Haiku]

Hello. I am playing Leverkusen(patch3) and Barnetta got injured for about 3 months. During his injury he drops points in physical stats, and after he recovered I kept playing him, but he didn't recover his lost attributes(pace, acc, stamina etc.) At the end I sold him for good money. Now Renato Augusto got injured for 3 months and lost 2 points of acc, agility pace and stamina... this is too much. How can I recover his quickness..!?! I am using default trainings. It's just.. physical attributes are so important in the game, and loosing them is big pain. Good players turned into crap, just because some stupid injury... and 3 months it is not 1 year..

[Millie]

Well, you could train them harder in the aerobic setting in their training, or you could set their individual training focus to "quickness".

Stats fall when a player is injured, which is meant to reflect the fact that a number of players take quite a while to recover from bad injuries. Sometimes, this is a permanent problem - Michael Owen comes to mind as a real life example. Sometimes it's temporary and can be coached back into the player (providing he's young enough, fit enough and motivated enough).

I would get him in the gym, maybe give him some reserve games before throwing him back into the first team (so he gains confidence and match fitness), and change his training settings.

[cagiva]

Also depending of the injury type the player will naturally loose some of his physical skills mostly pace, agility and acceleration. Some of the muscle problems, some of the groin problems and such as are hitting directly on the player mobility.

Look in the real-life - Carroll injured his groin in December and in the first few matches for Liverpool he looks increasingly slower. But after some work in the gym and match practice he already started to regain his usual form.

The key is not to throw such as player immediately in football action and expect from him to be as he was before the injury.

The best example is Fernando Torres. After so much muscle problems in the past two years he is clearly not so mobile and pacey as once he was.

[SFraser]

A good plan when someone gets a pretty bad injury like that is to immediately put them on to a schedule that has a low overall workload but a large bias towards physical training.

The aim here is that when the player returns from his "red injury" and starts doing light training and then reserve football etc. that you are massively biasing his physical attributes to either halt a potential drop or atleast minimise a potential drop until he gets back into his previous rhythm, and you are also allowing him to recover more condition between matches.

Keep this up until he gets back to near peak fitness/form and then return him to whatever schedule you had him on before.

Don't overdo the physical training though, it's about making a large bias between physical and other categories, not making him sprint or lift weights until something else snaps.