Valencia will change their habits to play at 12:00

Apart from the crisis that has been evident in recent days within the Valencia sports area, Bordalás and his coaching staff have been preparing all week the duel against Atlético Baleares what could you catapult to the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey, something that Valencia has not achieved since the 2019-20 season.

The Valencian team arrives as a favorite since the Baleares, despite the fact that he has already eliminated Getafe and Celta, It is still a First RFEF club. However, there is a circumstance that greatly benefits the Majorcan team, and that Bordalás has warned during this week: the schedule of the meeting.

The match is played at 12:00 in the morning with what this implies in the daily habits of soccer players. early riser to ingest carbohydrates and proteins at 9:00 in the morning, quick activation and travel to the stadium to compete in a morning schedule they are used to training but not to playing, with the change in intensity that this entails.

Bordalás, aware of this schedule after spending many years in the categories where it is played at this time, have noticed this situation and he has urged his coaching staff so that the squad metabolizes the change of habits. And he is suspicious of the situation because in addition Atlético Baleares usually play their league games at this time, inside and outside the home, since there is a regulation that requires playing at this time so that the Balearic and Canarian teams can travel back home in the afternoon.

Likewise, another conditioning factor that will equalize the forces in the Balearic stadium are the casualties that Valencia will have. To the two injured Paulista and Carlos Soler; the five cases of COVID (Hélder, Maxi, Cheryshev, Manu Vallejo and Wass); and the two players who have left or are about to leave this market (Jason, Piccini and Cristian). The good news is that Cillessen and Thierry Correia are back.