The central defender and captain had played each and every minute of the Wolves’ 84 league games since returning to the league’s most sensitive team in 2018, the third-longest race of its kind for a fielder in Premier League history.
He also missed the Phil Parkes club’s record eight times for 127 consecutive league appearances, having played the last 35 consecutive games of the 2017–18 Wolves promotion season.
The ongoing global pandemic was needed to prevent Coady’s career: he was forced to abandon his duties in England and isolate himself after receiving a verification and follow-up notification as close contact from a user suffering from coronavirus and was unable to regain the corresponding fitness.
His 84 high-level appearances for the Wolves have brought him 26 blank sheets, and his team conceded 95 goals in that span.
It has a good fortune rate of 63%, according to statistics on the official Premier League website, while winning 59% of “duels” and 60% of air battles. It attributes only two errors that lead to opposition purposes, compensated through a couple of free spaces in the purpose line.
He scored 3 goals against his team, all in early 2019, in consecutive games against Manchester City and Leicester, and then at Burnley more than two months later.
And there’s no chance of atoning at the other end. Although he scored and approached another in England’s 3-0 win over Wales in October, Coady has never tried so hard in the Premier League: staying on the kick set while Boly, Romain Saiss and Max Kilman lend their height to attack.
At 7,560 minutes, Coady’s career has a pair of long-running left-backs among all The Gardeners of the Premier League era.
Wayne Bridge played 10159 minutes in a row for Southampton from March 2000 to January 2003, while Leighton Baines played 8910 minutes without a game for Everton from October 2009 to April 2012.
Unlike those players, Coady reached his mark from the beginning of his period on the most sensible flight with the Wolves: in the past he only had a brief Premier League appearance as an expired replacement for his first club, Liverpool, opposed to Fulham in the end. 2012-13 season.
He is one of only 3 to have provided Nuno Espirito Santo’s team this season, along with his central colleague Willy Boly and goalkeeper Rui Patricio, with Raúl Jiménez ahead betting every bar for a minute.
Nuno Espirito Santo, center left, had Willy Boly, Conor Coady and Rui Patricio from the left (Richard Heathcote / NMC Pool / PA)
Coady’s career ranked 20th in the Premier League era when goalkeepers were included, with Tim Howard with the 18900-minute record for Everton from September 2007 to February 2013.
David De Gea recently beat Peter Schmeichel in Manchester United’s longest Premier League streak and is with Coady for the time being with the longest streak out there: 90 minutes, Schmeichel’s son Kasper, who played 7650 minutes of the Premier League without interruption for Leicester.