Wales will hope Davies is fit enough to play in both play-offs in March as they aim to qualify for a second successive World Cup.<\/p>\n
The former Swansea City player was magnificent in Wales’ play-off final win over Ukraine to clinch their place in the previous edition of the competition in 2022.<\/p>\n
He remains an influential figure, captaining his country in the continued, injury-enforced absence of regular skipper Aaron Ramsey.<\/p>\n
But Davies missed the final two group games of Wales’ qualifying campaign after injuring his hamstring during the home defeat against Belgium in October.<\/p>\n
Bellamy is not concerned, however, even if Davies is not playing regularly again before March.<\/p>\n
“We’ll deal with it. There’s no issue,” Bellamy added.<\/p>\n
“What you’ve got to see now is these boys live it. These boys train and know how to manage themselves.<\/p>\n
“OK, nothing will get anywhere close to a game [in terms of match fitness], but these boys are smart enough to know when they play in-house games, and clubs are clever enough to know, because the difference if you train small, small, small, and you go to a bigger area, the risk of injury becomes higher. So they manage their training load and then we go bigger.”<\/p>\n
Davies has not suffered with injuries in the same way as former Arsenal midfielder Ramsey, who has been blighted by fitness issues throughout his career.<\/p>\n
But unless Davies leaves Spurs in January or Ramsey, currently unattached, finds a new club, their ability to play two matches in quick succession in March could be a concern.<\/p>\n
“If it’s Ben or Aaron, we have to manage it. That’s the simple fact why we need 30-odd players,” said Bellamy.<\/p>\n
“I think I’ve used 32 players this campaign, and we have to because we have to continuously keep our intensity.<\/p>\n
“Where we are ranked now in Europe, we’re really high in the intensity and creating opportunities, so all our metrics have shifted.<\/p>\n
“Now we’re in the top 10 [for intensity] and, with our identity, we have to remain there because I believe that’s where we get the big results over the next couple of years.<\/p>\n
“Unfortunately, we have a lot of players who are not able to play two games in a row. How we manage the next situation is going to be difficult, but we’re going to have to work out a way to manage it. That’s why the best teams can qualify.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales will hope Davies is fit enough to play in both play-offs in March as they aim to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-679971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115853977498690274","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}