Top Prem groups face fixture chaos over subsequent season’s main schedule change
Premier League groups which have certified for the Champions League are set for a scheduling headache subsequent season.
Europe’s premier competitors will bear an overhaul because it expands from 32 groups to 36, and the adoption of the Swiss system as a substitute of group levels. And the growth will imply there shall be eight video games within the ‘group stage’, as a substitute of six.
According to the Daily Mail, there’s at the moment a fixture conflict on the horizon for any workforce that reaches subsequent season’s Carabao Cup semi-final. The draft fixture listing has one of many legs fall on the identical date as a Champions League matchday.
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If the present dates stay, the Premier League facet may very well be compelled to discipline a workforce of youngsters within the competitors.
Liverpool discovered themselves in an analogous state of affairs 5 years in the past when their Carabao Cup clashed with a visit to the Club World Cup. Neil Critchley oversaw a workforce of U23 stars have a trial by hearth towards Aston Villa.
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If the conflict had occurred this season, solely Arsenal would have been affected by the fixture conflict – with the opposite three semi-finalists – Chelsea, Liverpool and Middlesbrough – not qualifying for the competitors.
The different three sides that certified for the Champions – Manchester City, Manchester United and Newcastle – had all been dumped out of the sooner rounds of the competitors.
Liverpool and Chelsea are set to sq. off for the primary main silverware of the yr subsequent month.
