Hans Vanaken, Noa Lang, Charles De Ketelaere and Mats Rits, among others, were hit by the corona virus in recent weeks. Everyone is now available again, but no one feels great yet.
“I feel that my recovery is worse and that is also the case with those players”, says coach Philippe Clement, who himself was also very sick with the virus. “They all complain about it. Nobody is at their top level again.”
“It is not the case that you can return after corona and that after two training sessions you are again the player you were before. That has to be rebuilt and I think it will be a story of weeks to get everyone to their top again. to get.”
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“The players who have had corona all complain that they lack the power to be explosive and that they recover less quickly. It really has a lot of effect on your body.”
“For us as a club it is important to distribute the load over the entire team. We really have to keep that under control. The entire staff is working on that every day.”
“The boys now have two days off and after those two days the players who have had corona will receive extra strength exercises to be able to grow back to their top level.”
“And if players leave for the international matches soon, we will also have to communicate well with the national teams, so that those players can do something extra or possibly a little less.”
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