Experts are formal. Playing in the evening has a definite impact on the biological clock of football players and affects their performance. PSG, which has not been spared from injuries since the start of the season, is pretty badly placed on this side, Thomas Tuchel has often deplored. The chaining of matches to a late schedule is an explanation put forward by the German coach to explain the increase in injuries. Willy Sagnol, in the Grande Gueules du Sport this Sunday, confirmed what everyone knows. Quality sleep is the best thing to recover. Deploring therefore that several Parisian players (Neymar, Mbappé, Verratti, Icardi, Thiago Silva …) attend this NBA meeting in Paris two days from a trip to Lille (this Sunday, 9 p.m.) in Ligue 1.
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Sagnol calls for awareness
“The first thing that a top athlete must do is sleep,” he said in preamble, before getting angry with PSG players, guilty in his eyes of having attended the NBA game between Charlotte and Milwaukee on Friday in Paris. “They have the right to do everything, it’s been just seven years that it lasts, that you have guys like Verratti who can only play an hour. We had the same debates last year. I don’t want to lock them up. I just want them to say, at some point, football, my work tool, is my body. And when I ask him certain things, I’m not superhuman. “
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