A football match lasts 90 minutes. The work behind it begins weeks earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For Lion City Sailors\u2019 trip to Adelaide, around 45 players and staff had to be moved across a continent. Twenty-six bags of equipment travelled with them. Sleep, recovery and training loads had to be carefully managed. And hundreds of clips of Adelaide United were analysed and eventually reduced to just a handful for the players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then, after all of that, the Sailors went out and won 2-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this special edition of Continental Corner<\/em>, The Asian Game goes behind the result to uncover what it really takes to prepare for an away day in Asian football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Through conversations with head coach Mark Jackson<\/strong>, team manager Huong Tran<\/strong>, head of performance He Qixiang<\/strong>, analyst coach Varo Moreno<\/strong> and defender Bailey Wright<\/strong>, we explore the hidden machinery behind those 90 minutes – from flights, hotels and recovery to opposition analysis, player routines and the race to pack everything up and do it all again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is The Away Day<\/strong> – the hidden 48 hours, and then some, behind a memorable night in Adelaide.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What does it really take to play one away game in Asia? From flights, recovery and…<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":9217,"template":"","tag_episode_show":[529],"class_list":["post-11077","tag_episode","type-tag_episode","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n