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Pep Guardiola back to criticizing the busy schedule Manchester City and clubs Premier League other. Pep thinks that players no longer enjoy being on the field.
The corona virus pandemic has damaged football competitions in Europe since last March. After being stopped for three months, the 2019/2020 season was resumed in mid-June before finishing at the end of August.
The tightness of preparations for the 2020/2021 season has made a number of clubs not even have a pre-season session and only rest to recover stamina. It has been so busy this season has taken many victims, namely injured players.
It happens in English clubs which have three local competitions. Liverpool as the defending champions alone have lost 10 of their players in turns with Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez, two of their mainstay central defenders absent until the end of the season.
Meanwhile, Manchester City as competitors last season also had the same fate. Sergio Aguero and Gabriel Jesus were also injured, making it difficult for City to score as many goals as usual.
City could only “explode” when slaughtering Burnley 5-0 in Week 10 of the Premier League, Saturday (28/11/2020) yesterday night.
However, Guardiola again complained about City’s busy schedule so that the players couldn’t enjoy the match anymore. This certainly has a bad impact on the physical and psychological condition of the players, which in turn can harm the team.
Moreover, teams like Manchester City, Liverpool, Manchester United and Chelsea must play at least three times during the week, until the Champions League group phase ends.
“The problem right now is that the players are losing their enjoyment of playing football,” he said Pep Guardiola as quoted ESPN.
“Before this, it was nice to play 1-2 times a week with spectators. Now there are only three days, then we will play again. We will travel to Porto to win, then prepare to face Fulham,” he continued.
(mrp / cas)
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