Modric’s Physical and Mental Exhaustion After the 2018 World Cup

DBasia.news – Performing in the World Cup is perhaps the dream of all football players. Moreover, if they can play well and chosen as the best player of the tournament just like Luka Modric. However, after the World Cup, the players have to return to their own club.

Starting the new season with an exhausted condition is the consequence. Lack of rest time will result in the exhaustion.

The distance between the World Cup to the new season was short for the national team players. They felt the impact after the tournament ended.

Best FIFA men’s player and UEFA men’s player of the year award winner Luka Modric gelt that. In his 33, Modric is no longer energetic like in the past. No wonder, Julen Lopetegui benched him in some Real Madrid matches this season.

“​”The World Cup caused me a lot of physical and mental exhaustion,” Modric said quoted by Marca. As we know, Croatia had two or three matches in the World Cup with additional time and penalty shootout. They spent all they have in the final, and got defeated by France, the squad must be exhausted.

However, thanks to Lopetegui’s policy in handling the squad health, Modric is slowly performing his best style like past seasons. Recently, he helped Madrid to win 3-0 against Roma in the Champions League.

” but I feel better every day and I hope to continue playing as I did tonight,” the former Tottenham Hotspur player added.

“Of course I feel very comfortable with them,” he said. “We have played together for more than three years, we know each other almost with our eyes closed, but I also feel very comfortable with others,” Modric explained.

The competition in Madrid’s central line was tight this season. Lopetegui isn’t partial in choosing the player. He played Dani Ceballos and Marcos Llorente in Madrid’s central line, while Modric was on the bench.