Liverpool coach can sacrifice FA Cup and League Cup

Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp is likely to sacrifice the FA Cup and League Cup because of the tight match schedule that must be carried out by his troops.

The overlapping match schedule that the Reds had to play from September 2019 to February 2020 made Klopp avoid playing key players in both events.

So far, Klopp has managed to maintain balance in his squad, after he refused to bring great players after the Reds won the Champions League last season. "This is not the right time to have a team of 30 players." "The team must be rationalized," Klopp told German magazine Kicker last August.

"You can't tell them what day they will play on Wednesday or Saturday." When a player doesn't have a chance to play, he will lose his quality on the field, "he added.


Of the three older players who left during the summer of this year, only one was found to replace him. Namely, Adrian who came to replace Simon Mignolet.

The Liverpool coach says he prefers to work with a thin squad. In addition, only twice in his career as a manager, he had more than 18 players who recorded more than 1,000 minutes of game time in a season. The majority, Klopp has handled 19 players, and at least 12 players. According to him, there are clear benefits in this regard, especially in the consistency of the players on the field.

But Klopp said he had never led his troops to compete in many competitions, apart from the Community Shield and the European Super Cup, which was only held once.

After the Champions League draw and the third round of the League Cup, Klopp's team will definitely compete at the Club World Cup later this year. Because of this calendar, Klopp had to postpone the game away from home to West Ham's headquarters until mid-January. This was stated by thisisAnfield.com.

Klopp himself once said that Liverpool would fight hard to win in all competitions in which they participated, including the FA Cup and League Cup. But if the Reds succeed in advancing in both tournaments, then they will have to face a busier schedule than previously thought.

Plans to implement winter holidays in the English Premier League were very well received by Liverpool coaches. But, between the next match and a weekend break in February, Liverpool can play up to a total of 36 matches in 148 days.

That is an average of one match every 4.1 days, with the longest distance between matches excluding international breaks where most players will continue to compete, that's only six days.

Klopp's squad can get a six-day break in January and again in February. However, the away match against West Ham, which was postponed earlier, will definitely take place on one of the six-day breaks.

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