One of the big concerns, both for the coaches, the physical trainers and the doctors, is that Barcelona will resume LaLiga without the minimum required pace of competition that the friendly dispute during the preseason brings. Hence a few days ago The club will consult LaLiga to find out the feasibility of playing friendlies with the subsidiary in order to recover this lack of competition rhythm. Obviously, this option could not be carried out until the team entered the last phase of the LaLiga protocol, when group training is already allowed. However, the response of the sports body has been clear: only players who have passed the PCR test together will be able to train together during this period, in the case of Barcelona, a total of 24 players: 18 from the first team and six from the subsidiary .
An added problem in the roadmap of physical trainers who assume the impossibility of arriving in optimal conditions when the competition returns. “The friendlies serve to pick up the pace of competition and reproduce the demands of a match; without these variables it is impossible to guarantee that we will reach one hundred percent ”, assumes a member of the first team staff. In fact, the option of playing matches between them when LaLiga protocol allows it is contemplated in the technicians’ roadmap, but they warn that “an eleven against eleven match between the same players is a substitute because it does not give you the necessary competitive stimulus ”.
What seems clear is that the absence of friendlies is presented as a serious handicap when it comes to restarting the competition, although at least they remember that “it will be the same situation for everyone, so no one will start with an advantage.” Of course, this circumstance of absence of friendlies, will add to the section of added risk factors for injuries during the start of the competition, which, as we already explained in Ace, an internal report by the Barcelona medical services points to a rebound of five ten injured in the best scenario.
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