Andoni Iraola ya bayar da kimantawa bayyananniya game da lafiyar jiki ta Liverpool bayan da ƙungiyarsa ta sake rasa fa'idar dawa biyu a wasan abokantaka na biyu a jere na pre-season, har ta sha kashi 3-2 a hannun Monaco a Anfield.

Wannan kashi ya yi daidai da kashi 4-2 da Leeds a baya a rangadin, kuma Iraola ya yi magana da gaskiya: Liverpool ta buga sosai a cikin mintuna 30 na farko amma, a kalmominsa, «ba su da karin haka, dangane da matakin da ake buƙata don buga haka.»

Labari na sassan wasa biyu

Tsarin da aka gani a wasannin biyu ya kasance abin mamaki. Liverpool sun ƙwashe ƙwallon da saurin gaske, sun yi matsin lamba da ƙwazo, kuma sun nuna haɗari a farkon wasan — tare da Florian Wirtz da Alexander Isak suna da ƙwazon musamman. Amma da zarar musanyawa ya fara, siffar ƙungiyar da kuzarinta sun ɓace. Leeds ta jefa ƙwallaye huɗu ba tare da amsa ba a cikin mintuna 25; Monaco ta mayar da ƙwallaye uku a cikin mintuna 44.

Iraola ya yi musanyawa tara a kan Leeds da goma sha ɗaya a kan Monaco, kuma raguwar haɗin kai ya bayyana sosai. Wani ɓangare na wannan raguwa ya samo asali ne daga wasu 'yan wasan da suke dawo da lafiyarsu bayan huta bayan Gasar Cin Kofin Duniya, yayin da wasu — ciki har da Conor Bradley, Hugo Ekitike, da Giovanni Leoni — suke rasa wasan na dogon lokaci saboda rauni.

Ƙarfafawa suna zuwa

Ronald Araujo, mai kare baya na Uruguay wanda kuma zai iya buga matsayin mai kare baya na dama, yana kusa da kammala hayar aro na kakar guda daga Barcelona, wanda zai iya kawo sauƙi ga layin tsaron a makon da ke gaba.

Kyaftin Virgil van Dijk ya ba da amsa mai hankali bayan kashi da Monaco. «Bari mu ga abin da makonni na gaba za su kawo,» ya ce. «Duk ingancin da za mu iya ƙara wa ƙungiyar tabbas zai zo da kyau, don haka mu ga.»

Hanyoyin Iraola da timetable dinsa

Iraola yana jaddada cewa lafiyar jiki ta gaba ɗaya dole ta inganta sosai don Liverpool ta iya kiyaye salon wasan mai tsanani da yake buƙata. Mataimakinsa Pablo de la Torre — wanda a baya ya kasance kocin lafiyar jiki a Bournemouth — ma ya yi ƙaura zuwa Merseyside, wanda ke nuna mahimmancin da ake ba wa shirye-shiryen jiki a cikin wannan sabon tsari.

Alamun farko daga horaswa sun kasance masu bayyana. 'Yan wasan sun bayyana zama mai wahala a Chicago inda Iraola ya ci gaba da ƙarfafa su su tafi «da sauri, da sauri,» kuma inda ƙungiyoyin da suka yi rashin nasara a cikin atisayen horaswa aka tilasta musu gudu tsawon filin wasa gaba da baya. Milos Kerkez ya bayyana buƙatun Iraola a matsayin wasa «ɗaya da ɗaya a ko'ina cikin filin, matsin lamba daga sama, kuma a koyaushe kasancewa a gaban ƙafar wasan.»

A Bournemouth, ƙungiyar Iraola ta kasance ta farko a Premier League don hare-hare kai-tsaye da ta uku don dawo da ƙwallon a manyan wurare — tsare-tsare da yanzu yake ƙoƙarin dasawa a Liverpool. Kuma ya cancanta a tuna cewa ya ɗauki wasanni 10 kafin ya samu nasarar farko tare da Bournemouth a kakar 2023-24, kafin ya gina ɗaya daga cikin ƙungiyoyin mafi ban sha'awa a ɓangaren.

Da Premier League makonni biyu kawai, Iraola ba shi da shakku game da girman ayyukan da ke gaban sa — amma yana da tsantsa kan tsarin. «Da na so in ce, a'a, a rana ta farko za mu zama cikakku, kowa zai kasance a wurinsa, amma wataƙila ba haka zai kasance ba,» ya ce. «Dole mu yi haka da sauri gwargwadon yiwuwa.»