last season he played 35 games (33 starts) and a total of 2865 minutes in Serie A, played the SC (120 minutes), 4 games (360 minutes) in Coppa and 12 games (11 as starter) with 997 minutes in CL. thats 52 games (49 as starter) and 4342 minutes
this season he played 20 games (all starts, with still 9 games to play) and a total of 1735 minutes in Serie A, played the SC (90 minutes), 3 games (267 minutes) in Coppa with 1 game to go, and 5 games (all as starter) and 406 minutes in CL, with 6 games to go. thats 29 games (all as starter with 16 games still there) and 2498 minutes
if he plays all the remaining 16 games for full 90 minutes hes still gonna have less games and minutes played than last season. so yeah, your totally right