BBZ8800
Senior Member
How did we ruin our CL chances exactly?!?!
My opinion is that humans lose their energy when they get overburnt in a short period of time.
January and February is the most crowded part of a season with La Liga matches on weekend and Wednesdays and 6 CDR matches.
And then come CL knockout matches after 20 matches in 50-60 days.
Our team is older than ever in the last 20 years.
So, with some simple logic, we could expect our core players to get fatigued more easily in spring than in previous years.
And for the last few years, we lost energy almost every time in spring.
Even though our core players were 3-4-5 years younger.
Imagine what will happen this year...
Yet, Messi, Luis, Iniesta, Rakitic and Busquets play more then ever due to our "success" in CDR and due to EV is not willing to rotate players (he has some strange fetish or something on a winning streak).
It doesn't mean that we will get knocked out of a CL easily, but everything indicates that Messi, Iniesta, Rakitic will be dead tired in March and April.
On the other hand, CR20150 and friends will start to fly over a field from March till May.
I hope that I am wrong, and let's hope that RM won't win a CL.
But imagine another tragicomical season's end with us winning La Liga and Cdr, getting knocked out of a CL and RM winning yet another lucky/smart CL in their fashion.
They flopped in La Liga.
On the other hand, no one will be able to convince me that they aren't playing with 70-80% in a CDR.
They are rotating way more than us EVERY year. They don't play CR at all.
Again, if CDR is THAT important to them (since they lost La liga), wouldn't they play with 120% in a CDR this year?
Instead, they rotated again and played without motivation.
We are laughing at them every year in February, but everything indicates that they are playing CL with 120%, La Liga with 100 and a CDR with 50%.
On the other hand, we are playing like this:
LA Liga 100%
CL 100%
CDR 100%
For Lucho and EV, Alaves away in La Liga or Celta in a CDR is the same as CL's semifinal against Bayern.
On the other hand, RM has different priorities.
On one hand, our way is more "fair play" and more fair in general.
Their way, on the other hand is saving their energy for the most important trophy in a club football, CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, in key moments of a season.
Let's hope that I am wrong and that Iniesta and Messi will fly all over a field in CL 1/8.
But if they won't, it won't be the first time that they are low on energy in the most important moment of a season.
3 days ago, Messi and Iniesta played against Espanyol on a worst pitch in the last few years.
Why?
But it all depends how you rate trophies.
For me, CL and La liga is all that matters.
Supercup, European supercup, World club championship, CDR and similar are tournaments of a 2nd or 3rd tier.
The same as how people rate Confederations cup and Olympic tournament as some big achievements in NT football, while others are laughing at those ideas.
If you rate CDR highly, you won't understand my anger towards losing energy on a CDR.
If you rate CDR the same as Olympic tournament (as I am), then you would look differently at our long term energy saving plan.
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