Over 1,000 minutes played in 50 days

Dani Carvajal played this season 1,058 minutes of the official competition, shared between matches with Real Madrid and the Spanish team. In sum, they are 13 meetings in which he has participated since playing on the first day of the League, a August 18, until this Saturday, October 5, when he was injured. Or what’s the same, more than 1,000 minutes of football in 50 days.

The way in which Real Madrid’s right-back was injured against Villarreal, the result of an action in the match that ended in a impact between his leg and Yaremy Pino’s bodyforward of the ‘submarine’, suggests that the fatigue accumulated in the legs of the ‘2’ merengue need not have specific weight determining factor in the severity of the diagnosis.

However, that is true 13 games in 50 days, which is equivalent to almost two per week, also considering that they are at the beginning of the course, they are many matches. League Eight: He only missed matchday 7 against Alavés, was substituted in the 88th minute of the matchday 1 match in Mallorca, came on as a substitute in the 76th minute of matchday 3 in Las Palmas and was substituted in the 59th against Espanyol in 6.

One of the Super Cup of Europe, where he played 89 minutes. Two from the Champions (Stuttgart and Lille) complete and others two complete with choiceagainst Serbia and Switzerland.

In total, 1,058 minutes spread across 13 official matches in the short space of 50 days. Due to the nature of the play that ended in his injury, it does not appear that this was a decisive factor in the accident. But the numbers show that his muscles carry a perhaps excessive load for a few minutes at the beginning of an exercise. And they fed the debate about the tightness of a calendar that pushes players to the limit.