This is a fair point of controversy, following a 0-2 road loss in which Joevin Jones played out of his best position and Cristian Roldan played through a broken arm. Soccer management may choose to rotate players in and out of the lineup, or it may be forced to do so through injury or unavailability of preferred starters. There isn’t any reliable database of the latter reason, and certainly no record of the former – so there isn’t really any way to tease apart the two factors from player minutes (so much so that I’ve presented minutes data to analyze both unavailability and coach’s discretion while admitting I can’t separate them in the numbers, here and here).
Does Brian Schmetzer have a shorter bench than Sigi Schmid?
