Chelsea's Hayes calls for more research into ACL injuries

Chelsea's Emma Hayes wants more research into ACL injuries as Mia Fishel and Sam Kerr have both suffered one.

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00:00 Spoken about it numerous times about the challenges of players and travelling and loading and

00:12 everything that comes with that. Listen, injuries are going to happen in football and I think

00:17 when it relates to that injury I keep getting asked the same questions. I don't think we're

00:21 going to have all of the answers for it. But once again, another major injury within nine

00:28 days of a club international break transition, so no surprise to me, but one that I would

00:35 really like to see a big piece of research done on. We're women, we're built differently,

00:39 we've got cue angles, we've got hormones, we've got a very relatively new professional game.

00:47 It's multifactorial, it's not one thing or another, there's a lot that goes into it and

00:53 I don't think we're going to solve it, if we ever will solve it, maybe that's something

00:58 we have to accept.