{"id":1488,"date":"2026-05-29T05:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2026-05-29T05:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:48:23","slug":"more-than-8000-minutes-less-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"more than 8,000 minutes less played!"},"content":{"rendered":"


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There are barely hours left to find out who will be the new champion of the Champions League<\/strong>. He Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal will try to snatch Luis Enrique’s PSG <\/strong>which would be his second consecutive ‘orejona’. <\/p>\n

The set Gunner<\/em>however, has a clear handicap compared to the Parisian team<\/strong>. The toughness of the calendar has completely squeezed the London team, which He will play his 63rd game of the course this Saturday<\/strong>. A figure that contrasts with the 56 that the French team will now play<\/strong> at the Puskas Arena in Budapest. <\/p>\n

The high number of matches played gives a good example of the great season that the team has had Gunner<\/em><\/strong>, Premier League champion 22 years later and finalist in both the Carabao Cup and the Champions League<\/strong>. That’s also where the number of matches played in the English league<\/strong> (38), which is far from Ligue 1 (34). <\/p>\n

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Arsenal players celebrate the league title<\/span>AP<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The result of this load of encounters translates into a data that can be decisive <\/strong>Looking ahead to this Saturday’s matchup: Arsenal’s starting eleven in the final surpasses Luis Enrique’s eleven in more than 8,000 minutes played<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

He PSG<\/strong>champion in France despite the competitiveness that Lens has imposed, He has sung the alir\u00f3n even giving rest to many of his best players on a day-to-day basis<\/strong>. The most egregious case is that of Dembele’s<\/strong>. The PSG star He has only played 1,063 minutes <\/strong>in the league, something unusual for a player of the size and relevance that the former cul\u00e9 player has in the Parisian team. <\/p>\n

An aspect that has raised a lot of controversy this season has been the different postponements of PSG matches in Ligue 1<\/strong>in order to rest the French team <\/strong>facing the European qualifiers. “When I look at the amount of minutes and the freshness of those players, then it doesn’t surprise me<\/strong>“said Arteta in reference to the high pace imposed by both PSG and Bayern in the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals. “It’s positive. We seek not only to represent our club, our city of Paris, but also France<\/strong>“Alleged Luis Enrique regarding this controversy after the postponement of his team’s confrontation against Nantes. <\/p>\n

An abysmal difference<\/h2>\n

If we attend to the minutes that the supposed eleven Arsenal players have played in the Premier League<\/strong> who will start the clash against PSG, the figure is a total of 23,467 minutes<\/strong>. Declan Rice, with 3,099 minutes, is the field player with the most minutes on the team Gunner<\/em> in Premier League. In it In the case of PSG, this figure reaches 15,376 minutes<\/strong>with Za\u00efre Emery being the player most used by Luis Enrique (2,454 minutes). That is, there is a distance of more than 8,000 minutes played between the Arsenal eleven compared to that of Paris Saint-Germain<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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On the left Za\u00efre Emery (PSG); on the right, Declan Rice (Arsenal)<\/span>MARK<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Added to this are other aspects of the calendar. He PSG will arrive in Budapest with one more week of rest<\/strong> regarding Arteta’s team. Luis Enrique’s men played their last match on May 17, in the last league match against Paris FC. For its part, Arsenal had to wait another week<\/strong> to do the same despite Arteta fielding a very alternative eleven on the last day of the Premier League against Crystal Palace. <\/p>\n

It is clear that, once the ball starts rolling in the Puskas Arena, strength and previous rest will remain something totally secondary<\/strong>. Still, it will be a factor to take into account If the crash reaches the final stage evenly<\/strong>. And there Luis Enrique does have the game won. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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