Club World Cup obliges, the season was long, very long for a PSG winner of the Champions League and finalist of the Club World Cup. No less than 65 matches were played by the men of Luis Enrique, winners in addition to the C1 of the French Championship, the French Cup and the Champions Trophy. A record exercise, therefore, which inevitably left traces.
Because the truce was short for Parisians. Only three weeks before the resumption this week at the Poissy campus. For two days of tests and physical assessments before the actual resumption of training on Wednesday. All just one week before the European Super Cup that PSG must honor on August 13 in Udine against the Londoners of Tottenham.
“They will not be ready!” »»
In the eyes of the former physical preparer of PSG, OL and the French team, Alexandre Marles, imagining competitive Parisians for the occasion is utopia. “” They will not be ready! Imagine that this team will be ready next week against Tottenham or Nantes, it does not make sense “Claims the specialist in an interview with RMC.
“” Even if they certainly had to send some physical exercises, the players needed to cut. There are too many factors that come into account. They will come back with jet lag because they were on the other side of the planet. Clearly, to recover, it is not idealcontinues the interested party.
If you do land for a week and chain two matches, it's the best way to generate muscle injuries. There will be a gradual recovery. It is a preparation that will be spread over the whole month of August despite the resumption of competitions. »»
An increased risk of injury
From the outset, PSG will have to chain two games in four days. “” Do you get too fast? The loose ischio, quadriceps, adductors … It is not on a match that it is played out, but accumulation, fatigue, mismanagement can be expensivewarns Alexandre Marles. In fifteen days of full stop, you lose everything. So imagine in four weeks, you have lost everything … It takes six weeks to be well physically, but there we don't have this time. »»
With the Team, Robert Duverne, former physical trainer among the Blues, confirms: ” They will use the month of August as a disguised preparation time. “Surveyed by RMC too, the ex-assistant coach of the OGC Nice Alexandre Dellal is a little more optimistic:” Be ready in a week? It is impossible. But they don't leave zero. The staff left a time of physical and mental recovery. And since July 28, they have had an individualized program. These are not four or five weeks of total stop. »»
