Some technical and media analyzes suggested the failure of the German, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and England teams in the World Cup in Qatar, and the decline in the levels of many of their players, due to their getting used to playing the combined tournaments during the summer as usual and not in the middle of the season, as other analyzes considered holding the Qatar World Cup during the winter season, As the main factor that shuffled the cards of some major European league clubs that found difficulties when returning to the atmosphere of competition, their results and the returns of their players declined, whether those who participated in the World Cup or those who were absent from it, due to their absence from the competition for more than a month, and the fluctuation of their physical fitness and morale depending on For their career in the World Cup and the results of their teams, and they may mix their cards in the second half of the season, as happens with big clubs in some leagues.
Liverpool was one of the biggest losers and affected by the post-World Cup period after its exit from the FA Cup and the English League, and its loss three times in the league at the hands of City, Brentford and Brighton, and thus its decline to ninth place, twenty points behind Major Arsenal, waiting for its date against Real Madrid at the final price. The Champions League, which may be an indication of the premature end of the Liverpool season, and the beginning of a difficult new phase, will have great repercussions for the team, players and coach Jürgen Klopp, who is subject to dismissal at the end of the season if things get worse and the team fails to qualify for the Champions League at the end of the season, which is the main criterion that It became measured by the results of coaches in England.
Bayern, for its part, is paying the price these days for the failure of its international players with the German national team in the World Cup in Qatar when they were eliminated from the first round, and is paying the price for stopping the league during the winter break period for more than two months, in a first of its kind in Germany, after which the team returned to a low level that cost it the record of three draws. Consecutive in the league against Leipzig, Cologne and Eintracht Frankfurt in the absence of Sadio Mane, Manuel Neuer and Thiago Alcantara due to injury, which reduced the difference between him and the pursuers and not one pursuer as usual, which is what ignites the league between Bayern and Union Berlin, Leipzig, Dortmund, Freiburg and Eintracht Frankfurt, which seems to be That the long forced stop served her because the number of her international players is limited compared to Bayern.
In Spain, after the World Cup, Real Madrid was no longer the same as it was before it, as Barca beat it in the Super Cup final with three, and expanded the difference with it to five points in the league after losing to Villarreal and tying it against Real Sociedad, the third-place finisher, who makes the event this season, as Lance makes. In France, the second place, three points behind Paris Saint-Germain, whose performance and results declined after the World Cup, where it suffered two losses against Lance and Rennes, then tied with Reims at a time when the level of Mbappe, Neymar and Messi declined to varying degrees, it will have repercussions if it lasts longer, and it included a competition Champions League returning in two weeks.
Even Italy, whose national team was absent from the World Cup, Milan collapsed upon resumption, since losing the Super Cup final against Inter by three, after which it suffered two major losses, four against Lazio and five on the field against Sassuolo, to fall back to fifth place, fifteen points behind Major Napoli, who was not affected. By stopping the league during the World Cup, on the contrary, it achieved four consecutive victories since its loss to Inter upon resumption, to be the only leader by thirteen points from Inter, heading towards achieving its third title in its history and the first in thirty-three years, and to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the post-Winter World Cup stage. It must also be acknowledged that it served other teams and other players who did not participate in the World Cup, similar to Riyad Mahrez, who rose up with City.
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