The truth behind the myth of the exhaustion of the players »How many European clubs are in the top 4 of the seasonal matches!
Article by Daniel Scorpie – published on Saturday, June 28, 2025, 11:22 / Updated on Saturday, June 28, 2025 11:24
The very good evolutions and results, in enough cases, of the teams in South America have been put on account that representatives in Brazil and Argentina have fewer parties played this season. The last year's analysis until the start of the new club championship, however, demonstrates something else, although there are some mitigating circumstances.
There has been a lot of currency, in the two weeks consumed since the beginning of the competition in the United States, on the fatigue that most of the footballers from European clubs accuse after a season, and so long, entered by one month for the teams that will reach the final.
Inter will check in the 60th match. But Flamego has 77!
Among the eloquent examples are also the new band of Cristi Chivu, whose footballers have felt not only because of the burning and play conditions in America.
Fatigue (in the case of Inter was also moral) physics mattered and observed especially in the first two parties in the group. The surprise, however, appears if we account for the number of matches on the active for Nerazzurri in the last year!
The vice -champion of Italy and Europe is only on the sixth position in the ranking of most matches played between June 14, 2024 and June 14, 2025!
Cristi Chivu gives directions to Inter -Players / PHOTO: IMAGO
The team from “Giuseppe Meazza” ticked up to “Optimile” CWC 2025 59 games, one more than PSG, its winner of the Champions League final (0-5).
Real Madrid reached 62, and Dortmund is only at the odds 50
What is striking is that no club on the old continent has caught the top 4! The first in the hierarchy come from South America, all being Brazilian: Flamego (77 parties), Botafogo (74), Fluminense (72) and Palmeiras (70). And 100% qualified in the finals of the North American competition.
The difference is made by the detail that the formations in Brazil also participate in the state championships, of less importance and in which the coaches also manage among the holders, using modified formulas compared to the best “11”. But those accumulated minutes also matters at the end
Real Madrid – Pachuca 3-1 “” Galactics “broke the ice at the club World Cup and are close to qualifying in” Optimi “// Photo: Imago Images
What does the hierarchy of games played from fourth down? Only on the 5th is Real Madrid, with 62 matches, Los Blancos being followed at three “lengths” by PSG (59), then Chelsea (57) – the last two league and Conference winners, Manchester City (57) and Benfica (56), which ends the Top 10.
Atletico Madrid, who complained of everything and everything, being eliminated from groups, ticked 55. Diego Simeone's band left River Plate (54 matches), Boca Juniors (52), Bayern Munich and Juventus (51) Plus Borussia Dortmund (50), on the 16th place.
