They won't however be as rested as competitors who haven't played two games in a week. It really is as simple as that. No Farah is fit enough to run 10000m pretty quickly but he isn't going to run the last 400 metres as quickly as a competitor who hasn't had to run the first 9600m. A tour departs France cyclist who joins on the last day of the tour is most likely going to be quicker than one who has just done the whole tour. A tennis player who competes in every round of Wimbledon isn't going to be as sharp as one who gets a bye into the final. And so on
I don't know why you felt the need to start a new thread about it. Those examples are nowhere near to what happened yesterday though are they. Rochdale also played two games this week, the differences being 30 minutes more playing time and 96 hours recovery time, compared to 72.
Did you watch the Hull v Rochdale game then? Presumably you did if you were able to compare the intensity.
The stats show an end to end, all action game in ours, and that's what it was. They also show us lacking possession which as we know was because we were chasing the ball all over the park. The Rochdale game stats make it look like a pretty standard game. I didn't see it though, I'll hold my hands up on that. Did you?
Balance of probabilities (due to our game being particularly intense), and the stats, would say it was. What have you got to say it wasn't?
