{"id":1163,"date":"2025-10-31T15:46:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2025-10-31T15:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:46:28","slug":"real-madrids-knees-and-barcelonas-muscles-nba-football-is-taking-its-toll-on-the-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/real-madrids-knees-and-barcelonas-muscles-nba-football-is-taking-its-toll-on-the-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid&#8217;s knees and Barcelona&#8217;s muscles: &#8216;NBA football&#8217; is taking its toll on the giants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-44.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-44.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-44-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-44-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dani Carvajal and Pedri Gonzalez are the latest to visit the treatment room, victims of the relentless fixture pile-up in elite football. Knee injuries continue to plague Real Madrid, while muscular problems are hitting Barcelona hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elite football is starting to look more and more like the NBA when you glance at the calendar. The relentless schedule \u2014 packed with club fixtures and international breaks \u2014 is wearing down players\u2019 bodies. And the most telling examples can be found in Real Madrid\u2019s knees and Barcelona\u2019s muscles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent events make that clear. Dani Carvajal and Pedri Gonz\u00e1lez are the latest casualties for the Merengues and Blaugrana respectively. The Real Madrid captain\u2019s latest setback revealed the presence of a loose body in his right knee after initial medical tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for Barcelona\u2019s midfield prodigy, the medical report confirmed a tear in the distal biceps femoris of his left leg. Both absences are major blows for Luis de la Fuente, who will have to do without them for Spain\u2019s upcoming matches against Georgia and Turkey on the road to the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three matches a week \u2014 A relentless pace<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two giants of Spanish football are constantly operating at a pace of three matches a week. The physical overload, combined with the emotional strain that comes with elite competition, leads to chronic fatigue and constant exposure to injury risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking back, one of the most striking examples is \u00c9der Milit\u00e3o, who admitted he even considered retiring after suffering anterior cruciate ligament ruptures in both knees. That same ordeal now looms over Dani Carvajal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Barcelona, Dani Olmo and Robert Lewandowski are finally beginning to see the light after lengthy injury spells. But now it\u2019s Pedri Gonz\u00e1lez back on the treatment table, yet another victim of football\u2019s unforgiving calendar \u2014 as if the only goal were to fill the month with as many fixtures as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dani Carvajal and Pedri Gonzalez are the latest to visit the treatment room, victims of the relentless fixture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}