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[Saba Sports News] According to Spanish media reports, Barcelona coach Hans-Dieter Flick is deeply concerned about the team’s physical condition. Following Barcelona’s defeat in Seville, Flick immediately held a meeting with the fitness coaching staff. Reports indicate that internal data from Barcelona shows that the players’ fitness levels not only fall short of the expected standards for this stage of the season but are also worse than at the same time last year. A specific example is Pedri, whose current match intensity data is far below last year’s levels. As the entire Barcelona squad is generally experiencing more severe fatigue compared to last season, training loads have been forced to decrease. This directly threatens the team’s long-term goal of reaching peak condition by next March. The report points out that the team’s current physical state is what would typically be expected by the end of November. Flick referred to that period last season as a “sh*tty November,” and now this poor condition seems to have arrived early. Flick’s team is urgently searching for the causes and solutions to this problem. Regarding this, one wonders what Barcelona fans think?