He Barça has accumulated up to eight absences due to injury and Xavi Hernandez He points out that the two main reasons are “the calendar and sometimes bad luck.” And a good handful of their players have suffered the rigors of a very tight schedule between the club and their national teams. The influence is not surprising.
He Barça It has played 11 games since it started in mid-August. The Barça internationals added two breaks with two matches in each slot. A total of 15, so there is an average of two meetings a week. Plus wear and tear from travel, some of them transoceanic.
Gavi is the clearest example. The youth player has accumulated 1,124 minutes in total, count Barça and Spainin 1350, at least 83%: 673 in 720 in The league148 of 180 in Champions League and 303 of 360 with the national team.
Now is what the future holds: 13 games at Barça and another two games Spain. From August to December, he can intervene in 30 games, or about two per week. Xavi will be forced to dose it despite his youth.
In Ter Stegen, Gundogan and Araujo the same thing happens. The first two joined training on Thursday but stayed in the gym. The coach only has one training session to prepare with them for the clash against Athletic. They come from playing USA two friendlies, one against the USA in Hartford last October 14 and another match Mexico in Philadelphia this October 18th. They played and finished two games.
As already explained by MD, two Barça players traveled Frankfurt first, about 1,137 kilometers, to catch up with his team’s flight to Boston, another 5,893 km. From there, bus to travel on 160 to Hartford. Once the match is played, another flight to Philadelphia. About 350 kilometers. And I’m going home. First towards Frankfurt and then on Barcelona. A journey of almost 15,000 kilometers in the middle of the season to fulfill two gigs.
The list of casualties in the meeting is extensive and some of them are very sensitive: Sergi Roberto, Kounde, Pedri, De Jong, Raphinha and Lewandowski. “It’s not a reason to have a big casualty, everything is a challenge and we’re taking it step by step. We’re thinking about Sunday first, we can’t make assumptions about Champions, the classic… We can lose or gain more people. “We want to have good feelings again.”
Source: La Verdad
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