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The Premier does not stop, Leicester-Liverpool big match

2021-12-27T18:21:31.292Z


Tottenham also plays on Tuesday, Conte 'not easy after 48 hours' (ANSA) Still on the pitch despite everyone and everything. Neither Covid, nor Christmas and nor the alarms of Pep Guardiola and other managers about tired players stop the English Premier League. The League announced that over 15 thousand swabs were carried out in the week 20/26 December which revealed 103 positives, a record since they started doing them in 2020. It is not for nothing that three games w


Still on the pitch despite everyone and everything.

Neither Covid, nor Christmas and nor the alarms of Pep Guardiola and other managers about tired players stop the English Premier League.

The League announced that over 15 thousand swabs were carried out in the week 20/26 December which revealed 103 positives, a record since they started doing them in 2020. It is not for nothing that three games were postponed on Boxing Day due to too many infections and, after the Aston Villa-Leeds announcement, there is already a second match postponed in matchday 20, Arsenal-Wolverhampton, scheduled for tomorrow, but overseas play continues at all costs.


    Antonio Conte's Tottenham returns immediately: after beating Crystal Palace 3-0, a success that allows the Spurs not to lose the wheels of the Champions League train, the Londoners are expected from Southampton with the aim of extending the positive streak started with the new course initiated by the Italian. A Conte who has already won the affection of the Spurs fans thanks to the excellent results obtained and to whom they wanted to dedicate a chorus: "Antonio Conte eats spaghetti, drinks Moretti and hates Chelsea", with reference to the past of the former Juve and Inter Milan among the ranks of the "hated" Blues.


    The coach, however, is not happy with the management of the championship and puts his hands forward: "Playing after only 48 hours is not easy, for us and for each team. We'll see, I'll be forced to rotate. When you change a lot of players it's not easy. and you can lose your identity, it won't be easy ".


    A theme that also held sway on the eve of the key match of matchday 20, Leicester-Liverpool tomorrow night, with Juergen Klopp's Reds launched in pursuit of leaders Manchester City (with a six-point advantage) who will visit the Brentford. The German and his colleague who leads the Foxes both complained at a press conference that the teams should not be forced to play twice between 26 and 28 December. "This shouldn't be the situation.


    We should be able to talk about it every year and find solutions.

It is not so difficult to organize in a slightly different way ", said Klopp, who, however, due to the problems in the Villa did not see his team on the field yesterday and who will have Fabinho, Virgil van Dijk, Thiago Alcantara available for the away match in Leicester. and Curtis Jones, recovered from Covid. "It's a ridiculous program and everyone knows it.

The players did not fully recover until 72 hours after a game, "commented Rodgers, whose tenth-placed side will have many defections against Liverpool.


Source: ansa

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