Pedri He returned on January 12 after three and a half months stopped due to an injury that got complicated on several occasions. The canary was the victim of a bad planning in his recovery and had to be in the dry dock considerably longer than expected. I came back for a whole Classic, the one played in Arabia in the Super Cup. And there you could already see the change that the footballer had experienced who, at the minute of the game, entered the break for Frankie de Jong, had already shot once on goal. Quite a harbinger of what was to come.
Although an injury is never welcome, the footballer took advantage of the break to work hard on the physical aspect. We must not forget that he came from a season practically without rest. He had played it all with Barcelona in the year of his debut and then chained the European Championship with the Olympic Games. Too many games that do not allow a concrete physical work in depth.
extra gym hours
In those three and a half months he was able to dedicate time to it. One of the goals he set for himself was to increase weight and volume. Of course, without losing the speed and flexibility that he had already shown in his first year. He worked it out thoroughly with his personal trainer, the same as Ferran Torres, and also with the club’s physical trainers. However, the extra time I spend at his house, where a gym has been set up, to work TRX, pulleys and medicine balls It has borne the necessary fruits. The footballer has gained four kilos and above all a lot of volume in the upper body, arms and shoulders. The current photos compared with those from before the injury are eloquent. And there is still a lot of room for improvement. The footballer continues to work in order to continue increasing this volume.
scoring efficiency
The physical change has been joined by the sports one. Here his ease in scoring has been surprising because in the seven games he has played this year since his return He has already scored three goals. A percentage that clearly improves that of last season in which he scored four goals throughout the year. There are several reasons why he has improved in this area.
The Xavi factor
One of them is the new coach. Xavi has seen how Pedri has the potential to score more goals. In private conversations he has asked more daring and step more on the rival area. When Xavi started, Frank Rijkaard did something similar with him. He asked him for more goals and what he did was advance his position ten meters so that he was closer to the rival area. And Xavi began to score more goals because of that powerful shot he had.
A shot that Pedri also has, as he demonstrated last Sunday in Valencia when he scored with a strong shot from outside the box. A shot that will be seen in direct fouls. Pedri is one of those who stays after training to rehearse them. He needs to do it now on the field.
