Marcelo Bielsa’s Philosophy: Why Physical Output Is a Window Into Football Performance

We evaluate physical performance in two ways. Physical performance has a higher impact than physical performance. When you evaluate physical performance, you are evaluating football performance. That's what is very difficult to understand.

You may say: "But what are you saying? That physical performance is the same as football?" No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying that when physical performance is good, there is a great possibility that football performance is good. So, in each game, I evaluate if we run above our average and if we run more than the rival.

I don't know if you understand me, because that's how we evaluate what I'm saying. For the games where we stand out, we run above our possibilities. We have a average of physical performance. We run above and we run more than the rival.

I am clear in this sense because if I can't explain myself well in this sense, the great parties of Uruguay are because we ran, we were above our best physical version and we clearly surpassed the rival.