Before the start of the Club World Cup, Pep Guardiola and Bernardo Silva complained about the busy schedule.
Already winner of three trophies this year with a fantastic hat-trick achieved last season, Manchester City The Club World Cup begins this Tuesday. Automatically qualified for the semi-final, the Cityzens face the Japanese clubUrawa Red Diamonds in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Too busy a schedule
In bad shape in the league with only one victory in the last six matches, Pep Guardiola’s players do not necessarily view this competition favorably, considering that it adds to an already very busy schedule, especially since English clubs will play two league matches during boxing day.
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“The risk of injury is too high due to the little rest players have between each match”thus regretted Bernardo Silva at a press conference. For Pep Guardiola on the other hand, it is the rest time between each season which seems too short to him to recover sufficiently after an entire season, complaining in particular of tours on other continents during the summer. “That’s what I complain about all the time. For me it doesn’t matter if I play every three days, every six days, every seven days, it’s all good good, he explained. But it’s really difficult to end the season and start again three weeks later in Asia or the United States for financial reasons. (…) For me, things must 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.”. The Spanish technician will at least be able to rejoice at the return of Kevin De Bruyne in his team.
