At the first week with three commitments between the championship and the Champions League Tudor’s team showed worrying physical condition limits
Minute 52 of Verona-Juve: Akpa-Akpro receives the ball in its half field and leads her for about forty meters. Khephren Thuram, which starts at least one meter further on of the opponent, becomes burning at the start and then arranges, never managing to reach it. It is a clear image of a Juve that, after just 5 seasonal games, is already struggling with an alarm linked to the physical condition. “Yildiz was pale, it would have been to be removed from the interval, Thuram was also tired,” Tudor had warned at the end of the Champions League debut against Borussia Dortmund. “We missed the energy,” he admitted after the “Bentegodi”. But the Juventus fans ask themselves: what is this physical collapse due to? And, above all, if this tiredness emerged at the first time in the season when the team has faced 3 games in a week, what will happen in the future?
Juve, a flash preparation
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To go to the origin of Juve’s athletic difficulties, first of all you have to go back a couple of months: the club world championship, which lasted until the beginning of July, forced Juve to grant players only three weeks of holidays (the minimum union) and to compensate for all the preparation in a month. To make a comparison, Milan enjoyed 44 days of stop and started the work 17 days before the Bianconeri, the Rome of 49 days of vacation and started again on July 13, the Napoli of 53 free days and left on July 15th. Furthermore, the fact of having had to hurry the times forced Tudor and his preparers to work much more in an anaerobic (high intensity) way to have suffered “leg” debut against Parma, rather focus on resistance. So, if in the first friendlies (against Dortmund and Atalanta) and in the first two championship matches played 7 days later, the team appeared bright, when we found ourselves in front of the first triptych the knots came to the comb.
doubts about the Juve market
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And here we come to the second question: the expensive game requested by the technician and the construction of the squad. Tudor needs a team that runs through the whole field and always goes to a thousand per hour. It is no coincidence that, in the first 4 days of Serie A, Juve among the big names is the one that has traveled the most kilometers: an average of 116.5 against the approximately 115 of Inter, the 113 of Milan and the 112 of Rome. In this work the most stressed roles are the four midfielders and the two midfielders. Almost a contradiction, however, if you look at the composition of the Juventus rose: in the middle there are only two owners (Locatelli and Thuram) because for different reasons Koopmeiners, Adzic, Mckennie and Miretti do not have the right characteristics to replace them; On the trocar Yildiz and Conceiçao, waiting for Zhegrova to find an acceptable condition, they do not have a real alternative. Because inserting Opennda or David would impose on Tudor to change the line -up, which the technician has shown that he misses. Thus, the French and the number 10 were forced to play practically always and have “burst”, while the Portuguese has already run into a muscle stop stop. And the next triptych of games on the horizon (Atalanta-Villarreal-Milan) already play the red alarm ….
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