Bone fractures and fractures! How many people were injured playing the Panda Cup? Exposing U22’s “fatigue period meets high intensity”

After the three games of the Panda Cup, the most eye-catching thing is not the results of 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss, but the constant accumulation of injuries. Kuai Jiwen injured his left arm and was suspected of having a bone fracture; Liu Haofan had a problem with the medial collateral ligament of his knee; Zhang Aihui suffered a broken nose; Hu Hetao had leg discomfort and was forced to rest. On the surface, this is the price of high-intensity competition, but if you lengthen the timeline, you will find that what these players encountered was not a collision in a single game, but a long-term accumulation of "rhythm misalignment". The body is at the end of the season's fatigue, but it is pushed into a competition-level confrontation mode.

Take Kuai Jiwen, Wang Yudong, Peng Xiao and others as an example. They have hardly experienced a complete break since preparing for the U20 Asian Cup at the beginning of the year. The superposition of league tasks, national brand tasks, and cross-age competitions has made their physical condition already enter a period of fatigue. In this context, enduring the system requirements of one game every three days, strong confrontation, and high pressure is itself an overdraft. The players are not playing in the Panda Cup with their "physical bodies at the beginning of the season", but are using their "residual physical fitness at the end of the season" to meet the intense impact, so injuries are naturally not unexpected.

Antonio's tactical style is extremely demanding on physical fitness. High pressure, high defense, side attacks, and continuous confrontation are the most distinctive labels of the entire tournament. Such a system can produce results when the rhythm is strong and the state is full, but when executed during the fatigue period, the psychology, muscles, and reaction speed will lag half a beat. The schedule of the Panda Cup happens to be consistent with next year's U23 Asian Cup, and as we get to the third game, injuries become more intensive, with fewer goals conceded but greater consumption, which reflects this. The quality of the game is okay, but the physical cost far exceeds the upper limit of endurance.

The deeper problem is that these players are distributed in different clubs and are originally responsible for different game tasks. Some are the main players in the league, some have just returned from the National Games or international events, and some are already overloaded at the club. Bringing all these bodies in different states into the same intensity of competition is essentially a forced synchronization. This is not a tactical issue, but a timeline issue, which is the result of superimposed rhythm conflicts.

The hidden worry exposed in the Panda Cup is not that the U22 is not strong enough, nor is it that three days per match is too cruel, but that these players are required to withstand the right intensity at the wrong time. Protracted battle is never a contest of physical strength, but the alignment between rhythm and rhythm.

(Shopkeeper Luo)