Similar to Joshua Kimmich
Werner describes “a bit worse” infection
01/18/2022 10:31 am
In mid-December, Timo Werner tested positive for the corona virus. He’s fit again now, but happy to be closely followed by Chelsea’s medical team. For a few days he was exhausted from the simplest things.
Timo Werner was physically very impaired by his corona infection at the end of last year. As the 25-year-old Chelsea FC professional explained to Sky Sport, the virus “got him a little worse, and I’m glad that the medical department slowly got me back into the game.”
His course was similar to that of Bayern professional Joshua Kimmich, he did four or five days of slow build-up training to get under the stress. It was difficult “to do nothing at all for ten days: the main problem for me was that I had to pant a lot when climbing the stairs, which was unusual for a footballer,” said Werner, who has played 47 games in the German national team so far. If he worked in an office, he could easily have returned to work after seven days, but “as a high-performance athlete that was simply not possible,” emphasized Werner.
Great confidence in first leg and second leg
The ex-Leipziger had tested positive for the corona virus on December 16th. Because of the infection, he had missed the top Premier League duel against Liverpool at the beginning of the year, in which the two Manchester City pursuers had separated 2-2. In the table, the Londoners are currently in third place with 43 points and are 13 points behind leaders Manchester City.
The cup competitions should therefore offer greater chances of winning the title, where Chelsea is represented in three other competitions in addition to the Champions League. Werner dreams of a successful title defense in the European premier class. “We have a very good team and especially in one or two games we are probably one of the best teams in the world,” said the 25-year-old on Sky: “We are difficult with our defense and our game forward to beat individual games.”
In the round of 16, the team of Thomas Tuchel, who was honored as world coach by FIFA, first meets OSC Lille. “They’re not the supposedly strongest opponents, but a very unpleasant team that you have to beat first,” stressed Werner. From the quarter-finals things could go very quickly, like last year when the Londoners successively defeated FC Porto, Real Madrid and in the final s