They have also had more of a rest
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That means we are gonna be full strength
If they went to an event, they are in breach of Klopps 'we are doing everything we can'.
Corporate event... The worst part of being a footballer, having to meet sponsors.
Didn't Salah have Covid already?
It was digital. Only Klopp and Salah were together
You can get covid more than once
Charles LeClerc has tested positive for a second time (probably most high profile so far)
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Last Sunday, when the training ground reopened, Conte said he had only “10, 12 players” and tactical work was impossible. Here, remember, is a manager obsessed by pattern of play sessions, walking his squad into the correct shape over and over again.
“Usually if you want to try to play against a formation, you need 20 players and it wasn’t simple to do this,” Conte said. “You have to train with mannequins and I stopped.”
What about morale? It has been “very, very down”, Conte said, with Thursday bringing the latest low. The squad had been in Leicester and ready to play only to be told of the postponement before lunch because of a rise in Covid cases in their opponents’ ranks.
“So we had lunch, then another journey, we arrived back [at the Spurs training ground] and we had another session,” Conte said. “It’s not easy to find the right energy when you’re prepared to play and the game is postponed. Then today, to prepare for another game against Liverpool and you don’t know if you are able to play.”
On Tuesday Conte began to welcome back the players who had contracted the virus – they have returned in dribs and drabs since – but it is not as simple as their having observed 10-day isolation periods and then being ready. Nobody’s body is the same and every player reacts in different ways. Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne said on Wednesday that, having had Covid, he was still adapting because “I do two or three sprints and feel it”.
“When the players are back from Covid, for sure you have to pay great attention,” Conte said. “You can’t give them the same charge of work as other players. They need time to be fit.
“Before picking the starting XI, you have to take into consideration, for instance, [whether] to start with one player and, after 60 or 70 minutes, change him with one player who had Covid. It’s important to have patience and take the right risk. Every one of us would like to pick the best players, the best starting XI, but you have to understand they need a bit of time to have good form, to be fit and not risk an injury. Otherwise it would be a disaster.”
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Wives is the usual answer.
But if she's sick, shouldn't you stay put as well? I mean considering...
Not that type of sick. Done a PCR the other day and another lateral flow today. All negative for everyone in the house.
I guess you're screwed, bro.
Hangover then?
Yeah, it won't be called off now. The teams sheets will be interesting.
Villa was called off 90 minutes before kick off.
I had a belter of a hangover yesterday, on top of booster side effects.
How can you tell where one ends and the other starts?
It wasn't until about 6pm, when I hangover is usually manageable. At that point a temperature kicked in and I couldn't stay awake despite sleeping most of the day. That's when I declared it booster side effects.
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