‘English’ schedules. Here’s how to look at what will happen this week in the Premier League. “I don’t know how we survived,” he remarked Pep Guardiola towards their managers, after playing in the semi-final of the FA Cup against Chelsea, which City saved (1-0) at Wembley, that their players were visibly tired. Only 72 hours have passed since the ‘skyblues’ were removed from Real Madrid’s hands, and no one has noticed the enormous demands of the calendar for City or Arsenal, who were also eliminated from Munich in the Champions League, as they have to play again on Saturday. And the Gunners did it again yesterday against Chelsea, just like the team Guardiola He will do so tomorrow in Brighton. Three very demanding games in seven days.
None of their Premier clothes were torn by the antics of the chained matches. The reason? The schedules were set in March, when six of the 10 matches equivalent to the Premier’s matchday 29 had to be suspended due to the timing of the FA Cup quarter-final ties ‘Why not give us one more day?’ ‘Why not give us another day?’ asked the Catalan coach of Manchester City, in a reasoning that is within all logic, because in another semi-final, scheduled for Sunday, Coventry City and Manchester compete have not played in a week.
Also Mikel Arteta, Arsenal’s Basque coach, complained about the current way in which schedules are decided, due to the interests of television stations, asking for more recovery time for teams playing in Europe: ‘It’s not right . Let’s protect the players,” he said after the Gunners beat Wolverhampton on Saturday (0-2). Coincidentally or not, the complaints coincided with the English association’s decision to end more than a century of tradition in England, in by removing replay matches, in the event of a draw, from the FA Cup.
Arsenal and Arteta They were forced to assume that, with five games remaining, style no longer mattered, but efficiency, and the means to combat fatigue. And the same will be done Klopp with Liverpool, tonight at Goodison Park, in the Merseyside ‘derby’ against their arch-rivals in the city, Everton, as well as Pep Guardiola tomorrow in a very special match, at the Amex Stadium in Brighton, in front of his friend From Zerbi. Although the casualties were reduced this year, the unpredictable ‘seagulls’ of the south coast, with daring Italian tactics, would force the ‘skyblues’ not to lose one bit. They won’t be easy.
Criticism finally penetrated the interests of Aston Villa, the only English club to reach the European semi-finals. They are due to play on Thursday, May 2 against Greek Olympiakos, in the Europe Conference League, but their English league match with Brighton is scheduled only 48 hours later. The Premier understood that the trouble would not happen again. And Unai Emery’s Villa will play at Brighton on Sunday, May 5, at least, after the rectification, with one more day off.
Source: La Verdad
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