Rayo’s sports planning will give 24 more hours of time to the Ciudad Deportiva grass to avoid a horror like this Wednesday, when The team left the red-and-white facility and headed to the Virgen de la Torre, with artificial grass.to carry out the training.
The technical staff of Iñigo Pérez decided to train Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and rest Thursday, three days before visiting Real Madrid. An unusual plan because it was a long week – eight days between games – something that Rayo had not had all season.
The Virgen de la Torre, with artificial grass, is the place where Rayo trained this Wednesday
If the state of the grass was bad on Monday and Tuesday, what they saw on Wednesday was even worse. The weather did not help, but the underlying problem is that Rayo only has a natural grass field to train on – in addition to a small annex behind one of the goals. That is, the grass never has the care and rest required to keep it in optimal conditions.
The Wednesday’s session, the most important of the week in terms of load, had to be readjusted due to the change of scenario. It made no sense to push the players on a surface they were not used to, with the problems that could arise.
The Stadium was not a solution
In other similar situations, Rayo has chosen to rest the Ciudad Deportiva grass and move to the Stadium to train. However, the grass at the Vallecas Stadium has been in very poor condition throughout the month of January and the Royalverd company is carrying out reseeding work, so it cannot be used this week either.
To finish preparing your visit to the Santiago Bernabéu this Sunday at 2:00 p.m., The franjirroja squad will train on Friday and Saturday in a scenario yet to be determined. The club has not communicated anything in its official media since Tuesday, with no trace of what happened this Wednesday.
