The first leg of the League Cup between Arsenal and Liverpool, scheduled for tomorrow at the Emirates Stadium, has been postponed due to an "increasing number of positive Covid-19 tests between players and staff".
To give the news is the same Liverpool, who had forwarded the request to the English Football League (EFL).
The latest round of tests conducted by the club yesterday revealed a "significant" number of new cases, including assistant manager Pepijn Lijnders who was already Jürgen Klopp's alternate, who was also infected last week, leaving the team "with an insufficient number of players available to play the match ", explain the Reds in the statement.
The club also announced that it has closed its training center due to "multiple new Covid cases" in the squad group.
