The successful season of Liverpool prepares coach Jürgen Klopp and his team scheduling problems. Following their win against Arsenal, the Reds face Aston Villa in the quarter-finals of the League Cup on 17 December. From 11 to 22 December, however, Liverpool will have to participate as a Champions League winner in the million dollar club World Cup in Qatar.
The unusual solution: Liverpool will play in the competitions with two different teams. The shared club and English Football League (EFL) with. In the League Cup thus almost exclusively substitute and youth players are used. Previously it seemed agreed that the League Cup match against Aston Villa would be postponed to January to solve the appointment problem.
Klopp had after the spectacular first knockout match against Arsenal still threatened to compete in the insignificant competition in England, if the EFL offers no other solution.
While Liverpool describes the solution as "not ideal", but "in the best interests of the competition, our fellow clubs and ourselves", the EFL writes in its communication that it has complied with a request from the club to play the match on the scheduled date. Liverpool has therefore committed to "use a team that is largely consistent with the one who has participated in earlier games of the competition this season".
