Interviewed by the dutch newspaper, Frank De Boer spoke on his choices against Chievo.
The former Barcelona defender, underlined how the nerazzurri were unfit, that’s why he picked up a well known 3-5-2 for the players, that have never played together for 90 minutes during the preseason, due to Euro 2016 and Copa America international duties.
Even the former Ajax coach, stressed out how Ivan Perisic is important in the economy of the squad, but he couldn’t put him from the beginning since the Croatian international is still recovering from his wonders plays at Euro 2016.
Source: Algemeen Dagblad
I’m wondering, how physical problems because of summer tour and separated groups is still mentioned! That’s not relevant, because most of european big clubs Barcelona, Real, Atletico Madrid, Manchester United and City, Liverpool, Tottenham, Bayern, Borussia Dortmund, Juventus, Milan, etc. was in the similar situation participating in International Champions Cup and never heard someone to use that excuse! If there’s a problem with physical condition, the blame have to be for Mancini’s staff!
beside the coach, several player mentioned physical problems, thats fucking worrying, wonder the fuck were they doing this pre-season…
I mean our genius management thought it would be good to have players separated by thousands of miles during preparation. I knew that would have been great
yeah, but was it a surprise to the management, mancini & his co. that there’s going to be EC and Copa this summer?! this US Tour was organized several months ago, they could have kept this in mind…
Players from many clubs in the US tour played in EC and Copa. As far as I know, we were the only club which decided to have two groups. Other teams had their players join them directly in US after their holidays.
if im correct they were given extended holiday and didnt want them to travel several thousands of miles, rather have a physio working with them in Appiano
altho, training apart or together shouldnt have an effect on physical condition :/