The schedule facing Manchester City at the end of the year is making the English champions cringe.
The end of year celebrations are usually synonymous with hectic pace for Premier League clubs. And this will be especially true this year for Manchester City. Consequence of the Club World Cup which takes place in Saudi Arabia. Three days after being forced into a draw by Crystal Palace after having had a two-goal lead, the English champions face the Urawa Red Diamonds this Tuesday in Jeddah in the semi-final.
And in the event of a victory, the Citizens will face Fluminense in the final this Friday before continuing with two new Premier League matches, next Wednesday at Everton, and three days later against Sheffield United. Infernal speeds which Bernardo Silva did not fail to complain about. “We play and we obviously win a lot of money and all that kind of stuff. But in my opinion – for people who love the game and are entertained by it – if we have that many matches, these games will lose energy, lose intensity. It’s just my opinion”, he said to the Telegraph.
For the Portuguese midfielder, the schedule has become ” mad ” And “the risk of injury is very high”. And unsurprisingly, the former Monegasque’s opinion is shared by his coach, who firstly regrets the too limited rest time between two seasons. “This is what I complain about all the time, he regretted. For me, it doesn’t matter if I play every three days, every six days, every seven days.”
“But it’s really difficult to end the season and start again three weeks later in Asia or the United States for financial reasons, he whispered. It’s really, really difficult, for us and especially for the players. For me, things need to change. But how do you change when, after finishing the season, you go to the United States to play another competition? That’s the whole problem. »
