Welcome to traveling soccer weekend. What can we really anticipate from the the last round of Premier League matches before a World Cup which starts less than seven days later and leaves no time for recovery from an unexpected and even fairly small injury? Obviously, this is an overestimation. One or more international coaches will wince at each tackle.

For instance, when tomorrow's final game between Fulham and Manchester United is over at around 6.30 p.m., no fewer than eight of the players involved are scheduled to fly to Qatar in the next 48 hours.

They will begin in Group B six days later, in the heat with a three-hour time gap.

Marcus Rashford, Harry Maguire, and Luke Shaw of England, Harry Wilson and Dan James of Wales, Tim Ream and Antonee Robinson of the United States, and Tyrell Malacia of the Netherlands, who will join their nations, will all find it weird.

What would happen, for instance, if Ream stumbled into a tussle with Rashford?

Across both sides of the Border, everyone will take a deep breath.

Related to how Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur will face off vs Tyler Adams and Brenden Aaronson of Leeds United today, Kieran Trippier of Newcastle United and Christian Pulisic of Chelsea will square off against England's Kieran Trippier in what could be a preview of their November 25 Al Bayt Stadium showdown.

There are now 116 players from the Premier League in World Cup teams. It is an all-time high for any league.

With 15, Manchester City leads the pack, trailed by United with 13, Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal, and Liverpool has 7. The Southampton and Crystal Palace players (Armel Bella-Kotchap from Germany and Joachim Andersen from Denmark, respectively) have scored the fewest goals so far.

Therefore, every team is impacted by the unprecedented situation in which more games were forced into the first half of the season to fit in a winter World Cup. This dashed hopes that teams would drop off injured or fatigued from too many matches and insufficient rest time, contrary to Michel Platini's renowned description of England as lions in the winter and lambs in the summer.

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The players' union, Fifpro, has unavoidably released a report criticizing the "unsustainable" workload that is endangering "career longevity," highlighting Tottenham's Son Heung-min, the captain of South Korea who is battling to be fit for the competition after breaking an eye socket during the Champions League victory over Marseille.

According to the research, Son has traveled internationally for club and country more than 146,000 kilometers (km) since the start of the previous season, traversing 132 time zones and performing more than 600 minutes of soccer in just the month of October.

Similarly, Sadio Mane of Senegal, a former Liverpool striker who is currently a member of Bayern Munich, is dealing with an injury after playing 93 competitive games since the start of last season.

According to Fifpro general secretary Jonas Baer-Hoffmann, "the number of players stepping up reflects the level of concern players experience and there are many, many more in dressing-rooms who just don't openly speak about that as well."

England manager Gareth Southgate was cheerful enough to respond that there wasn't much he could do about players being hurt this weekend when asked whether he was concerned. But that is the reason he told every player who wasn't included in his team to be ready. They might be called up at the last minute.

There is still a problem. How exactly do training sessions become customized to include Kane, who has played an incredible 2,025 minutes this season, and Kalvin Phillips, who has only played for 54 minutes? The England coaching staff is worried that Kane and Jude Bellingham, who is only 19 and is never given a break by Borussia Dortmund, are on the verge of losing it because they have played an excessive number of games already.

Some players need to train, while others would benefit from a few days of rest to focus only on getting pumped up to play for England.

stated Southgate. "We can only accomplish it with the players present. We are aware of the difficulties facing the clubs both now and after the competition, so we must ensure that our attention is on those aspects.

The coach of table-toppers Arsenal, who play Wolverhampton Wanderers (who have three players in the Portugal team), Mikel Arteta, said that he had discussed the worry of a late injury with his players.

We previously discussed the subject, and Arteta replied, "I usually tell them, if you're thinking about an accident then definitely it's going to occur. "I don't know if it will occur today, tomorrow, or on the first day of World Cup training. Get this off your chest; since you are world class athletes, this risk will always exist for you. As a result, focus on your work and each action you take, and the risk will decrease. There you go.

Jurgen Klopp, the manager of Liverpool, supported it. "We are professionals, and the boys play the game with complete concentration since anything can happen in a football game," they said. We don't discuss the World Cup," he declared.

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