Carvajal, Rodri injuries show top players have too many games. Are national teams to blame?

Dani Carvajal , Rodrigo Hernandez and Yeremi Pino have all been ruled out of Spain 's Euro 2016 qualifiers.

The Spanish league has never reached the second international break having played so many games.

There were 101 in the opening six weeks alone in September , 94 players have already gone under the knife.

By October , the injury count was up at 200 , with more than 10 clubs in double figures.

The last two seasons in the Premier League have seen an increase in injuries of 11% and 21.93% respectively.

The increase in the number of games in the Champions League , the Club World Cup and the expansion of the Nations League has seen players rebel.

The number of hours has risen and that has been a reason, albeit not the only one, says Pablo de la Torre , the fitness coach at Bournemouth.

Players say there are too many games, the classic retort is to say: earn less.

A footballer in primera, not playing in Europe and not an international, won't play much more than 40 games a season in any season.

This is an elite issue, which leads to another familiar, and often facile target, especially at this time of year : the national teams.