Joachim Löw during Germany-Spain in the League of Nations, September 3, 2020. -
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Didier Deschamps, Joachim Löw - and all the coaches in the world, same fight.
The German coach blasted Thursday after the match against Spain (1-1) the hellish pace imposed on players this fall by UEFA.
He particularly deplored that the rule of five substitutions per match was not adopted in the Nations League.
"I have to say it in the form of a criticism: if we don't do it now, when will we do it?"
We should have said that five substitutions were a sensible solution ”, launched the coach of the Mannschaft Thursday evening in Stuttgart, after the draw of his team.
We saw in this match "that the players were on the knees", argued Löw, who believes that the five substitutions - adopted by the Bundesliga for this season - would have been the good option "from the point of view of the health of the players. players ”.
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"The very heavy program" of the internationals in the coming months "will have negative repercussions on health, the level of form and the quality of the game", he warned.
Löw's Spanish counterpart, Luis Enrique, followed suit: "I regret not having had the right to make five substitutions, I could have given more rest to my players," he said. said.
UEFA has two more international windows scheduled in October and November with three matches each time, as players will regularly be forced to play twice a week at clubs, in European competitions and in the leagues, which later resumed. than usual due to coronavirus.
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