The Draw for the Quarter-Finals of the Carabao Cup takes place today meaning the 8 teams left in the competition will know their fate at some point before the day ends but Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said his team may forfeit the Carabao Semi-Final if the fixture date cannot change.
Liverpool make a 7,000-mile round trip to Qatar to play in the semi-finals of the Club World Cup on 18 December.
The tournament is held every December and features seven teams from six confederations.
“If they don’t find a place for us, an appropriate place, not 3 am on Christmas Day, then we don’t play it,” said Klopp.
“You have to think about these things. If you have a fixture list where one team cannot be part of all the games, then you have to think about it. Hopefully it starts at one point, hopefully, it starts now.
“We will not be the victim of this problem. We played [on Wednesday] and we wanted to win. If they don’t find a proper date for us then we cannot play the next round and whoever is our opponent will go through – or Arsenal will play it. I cannot change that.”
Liverpool faces fixture congestion over the next few months and Jurgen Klopp would need to rotate his squad extensively.
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