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Good news for Barça: The physical condition of the team, better than expected

Published:9/05/2020 - 17:13h

Updated:9/05/2020 - 17:13h

Barça has started to draw conclusions after its first training sessions, and have received good news. Despite the confinement, the team's physical condition is better than expected

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The coronavirus has altered notably the day in day out of the FC Barcelona, that for the moment conforms with frecuentar the Sportive City. The players have left to see his satisfaction after several months of confinement, accepting the protocol of LaLiga and the constants measured of prevention with such go back to step the terrain of game and touch balloon. For the technicians, besides, the turn to the work has arrived with good news.

As to the newspaper 'ACE', the two first trainings have launched positive conclusions, because the state of form of the team is better of the expected. So much Friday like Saturday analysed the performance of the members of the staff and of some perlas of the filial to which Quique Setién has demanded, and except exceptions like the absent Ousmane Dembélé or the lesionado Samuel Umtiti, the feelings are promising.

The starting point are the proofs that made the Wednesday beside the tests, and that will serve like reference for the next weeks. Still it remains a lot to think in the return to LaLiga and to the Champions League, and the preparadores culés have opted for going without pause but without haste. Go back to play after so much time of stop will not be easy, so habra that take this 'pre-season' very seriously.

The quoted half concrete that the work home has served to cushion the physical fall, and the changing room is for the time being to the 40 or 45% of his ideal capacity. This is a data to take into account because the forecasts situated a bajón until the 30 or 35%. The weight and the index of corporal mass are not neither near of the marked limits, and the analyses of effort, musculature or reaction are acceptable inside the gravity.

So that this situation was truly useful it will be necessary to accompany it with a new progression on the way to the month of June. Always according to this version, the estimates of the Barça speak that it could arrive to the 50 or 55% to the term of the phase of individual sessions, and still would be necessary to hammer in the phase of trainings in group so that when they restart the tournaments, there are guarantees to be able to compete.

Setién Works to improve to the Barça

The physicist will be key in a very tightened calendar to struggle by the titles, but Setién also has worked looking for a Barça better. As it ensured Eder Sarabia or also the own technician, in the last months have put 'duties' on tactics and technical that the footballers will have to apply when the planning allow it. After some months of altibajo, the Barcelona expect to go in in action with more strength that never.