Cesar Azpilicueta believes that the winter World Cup has already caused massive issues with this seasons football before the tournament has even started.
The Premier League will break up for players to go to Qatar in just over three weeks with a six week hiatus for the carnival of international football to take place. It has meant that domestic leagues across the world are being impacted with increasingly crammed schedules in the lead up.
Teams playing in European competitions in England will have played three matches per week for eight weeks straight by the time the final fixtures are played preceding the competition on November 12th and 13th. By that point, Chelsea will have played 14 matches in six weeks.
