I have a bad feeling that Poch's training sessions are excessive. We looked absolutely knackered against City last weekend.
Poch's training sessions are said to be brutal - and a surprise to players taking them for the first time.
Which means that players doing them for the first time, possibly need a little more time to get up to the level they do - maybe Ndombele is a victim of not doing that.
IMO this pre-season started a week or two later than it might - reason was to give players a slightly longer break than usual to make up for the injuries last season due to 10 of them having no preseason last year due to WC. With that in mind, maybe no surprise if they are feeling tired as its still a little early after starting the training regime.
Are they too brutal - impossible to answer. Poch believes that it ensures the players are fit to run for 90 minutes throughout the season. So that means we get late goals when other teams cannot last the pace and generally find us running throughout the game, so it has merit.
Just wish he'd maybe taken a little longer to get up to the fitness levels he wants, even if the 100% fitness level is reached at the international break and we start the season at say 90% of his desired fitness level (but that might mean risking dropping points in the first couple of games of the season - so its a balance)
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