The English Football League (EFL) has announced a new date for the Carabao Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Arsenal following the Reds submitted a request for a postponement. First game away to the Gunners due to the Covid-19 problem. spread in the camp
The Merseyside team was approved on request following the EFL. Agreed to postpone Thursday’s football match as Jurgen Klopp’s team have contracted several more coronavirus cases besides the German, who is still in quarantine with the three players, Ali. Son Becker, Roberto Firmino and Joel Matip, who will not be featured in another game, will also miss their 2-2 draw with Chelsea in the Premier League on Sunday. In the past, Klopp’s assistant Pep Lijnders has also contracted the infection. Meanwhile, more infected players are thought to include Virgil van Dijk and Fabinho.
Meanwhile, the Reds also have problems with many injured players, including Harvey Elliott, Divock Origi, Takumi Minamino and Thiago Alcantara, plus three. African players such as Mohamed Salah, Naby Keita and Saio Mane also left to serve in the Africa Cup of Nations, resulting in Red Mae Sheen doesn’t have enough players left to play at the Emirates Stadium.
Until recently, on January 5, the EFL announced the new kick-off date for both teams. And set the game in the second playoffs at Liverpool to open Anfield to welcome Arsenal, switching to play as the first game by default because the final was scheduled on February 27 at Wembley Stadium, so there are no vacant queues left before the final day.
As such, this means that the Reds will switch to the hosts first in the first leg of the playoffs on Thursday January 13, while the Gunners will switch to the home team next week on Thursday, January 20. .
However, Liverpool have a queue to play in the next FA Cup match once morest Shrewsbury on Sunday January 9, which is still doubtful whether the hosts will be ready to play or not.
in the case of the Carabao Cup playoffs, which has adjusted the program for the Reds to play at home before that As a result, it was believed that Klopp’s team became at a disadvantage to play the second match in Arsenal’s nest, because if there was a tie, they would have to have thirty minutes of extra time before the penalty shootout was decided by. The away goals rule is not counted, which was canceled three years ago.
for past statistics It has been revealed that Liverpool have made the semi-finals in this tournament, having played at home seven times. and has managed to reach the final five times, including the conquest of Arsenal in 1978.
As for the other two times, the Reds fell out of the playoffs as a local team before a duel with Middlesbrough and Chelsea in 1998 and 2015
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