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2019/20 Carlo Ancelotti

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BigBlueConk said:
Just an opinion.
There are not many teams he will have managed with a poorer quality squad than Everton. Not many.
He will already have seen enough to know that the best way to improve Everton is in the transfer market and not so much on the training ground.
Carlo is a manager, not a miracle worker.
For that I am not expecting any miracles, simply another rebuild process that will endure some pain along the way.
It can take seasons, so don't expect anything amazing in the coming weeks lads.You will just upset yourselves.
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I agree with you. My hope is we can see steady improvement though. Our last four managers have all had solid debut campaigns and then had it all go to crap afterward.

Moyes 7th then 17th
Martinez 5th then 11th
Koeman 7th then sacked somewhere in the bottom half
Silva 8th then sacked in the drop zone

I'd just love for Carlo to straighten it out this season, finish 7th or so next year and finish at least there again the year after. Bring some stability while we get useful players in that can start to find a style of play and some continuity.
 
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GylfiFerguson said:
It's weird to talk about tiredness after only 90 minutes once every few days. Not even considering substitutions for some of them.

I've never played professional sports but I have done a lot of amateur sports and I've exerted myself a great deal more than that without too many ill effects. I presume I am/was nowhere near as fit as these highly paid professional sportsmen.

For example I've hill walked for between four and six hours a day in baking heat for seven days in a row in Spain and I felt like I could have played 90 minutes of football at the end of it no bother.

Perhaps it's emotional tiredness they suffer from? I'm sure I could overcome that for £100,000 a week mind you...
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Professional football is a hugely dynamic athletic sport. A one off hiking holiday with the ramblers association is incomparable. Sometimes you need comments like this to understand who you are debating with
 
GylfiFerguson said:
I've played football. I've played football for amateur teams and my school back in the day.

Have you ever played football and/or hill walked?

I'm not talking about slowly walking up a little hill in the Lakes here. I'm talking banging up full on mountains in the Sierra Nevada.

At the top level a footballer playing a full 90 minutes match will run anywhere between 8–13km. Commonly, midfielders will run the greatest distance.

Over 90 minutes that is eff all.

6 hours in the Sierra Nevada requires way way way more energy.

As for training. You don't train a player who is reporting exhaustion so that they can't perform in their next game so I'm sure how that's hugely relevant here.
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Mate stop.
They aren’t ‘running’ for 90 mins. They are sprinting. Yes they are resting. But try doing 10 x 10 second sprints at your top speed with a 30 second rest and tell me if it’s easy.

comparing amateur level sports to professional athletes is laughable. Yes they are fitter but that level is 100 miles an hour. There is a reason why there are teams of fitness coaches, they have endless data collected and have things like ice baths after a game.

I’m sure legging it up Sierra Nevada is tough. I’ve run marathons and that’s tough.

But to try and compare what I’ve done to being an athlete, training all the time, even at peak level fitness is a bit silly. They don’t train an hour a day cos they are lazy. It’s because that’s the limit at that level of exertion.

Have you ever hear of the dunning Kruger effect? Because I think that’s what applies here.
 
There are plenty of research articles proving the increased daily expenditure after sprinting as opposed to some form of steady state cardio. There's also glycogen burning at a faster rate, even rapid glycogen depletion, during anaerobic exercise like sprinting, meaning your muscles have less reserves afterward and need time to recover. On top of sprinting for fair periods of time during the game, they are also doing a total of approximately 10 km per match.

There is zero correlation between hiking Sierra Nevada and a top-level football match.
 


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