PREMIER LEAGUE giants are reportedly set for fixture chaos subsequent season.
That’s with Champions League video games set to be performed on the identical day as Carabao Cup matches.
Europe’s elite competitors will bear a serious change subsequent season because it expands from 32 groups to 36.
The group levels have been axed and groups will as an alternative be bundled into one large desk for the opening spherical.
The highest eight groups will go straight by to the final 16.
Whereas the subsequent 16 will play knockout matches to find out the ultimate eight sides.
Nevertheless, it means groups will now play eight matches within the preliminary spherical as an alternative of the earlier six.
And the Mail claims that there's at the moment a fixture conflict on the horizon for any Champions League workforce that reaches subsequent time period’s Carabao Cup semi-final.
The home competitors turns into a two-game tie at that stage.
And a draft fixture listing from the EFL sees one of many legs fall similtaneously a Champions League video games.
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It’s famous that EFL sources insist the fixture date shouldn't be finalised.
Nevertheless, the one approach to keep away from the conflict of video games is to make the Carabao semis a one-legged affair.
And will the present date stay, it may pressure any Premier League facet within the Champions League to area a workforce of youngsters within the Carabao Cup.
Liverpool famously put out their youth facet underneath the watch of then-U23s boss Neil Critchley for his or her Carabao quarter-final in opposition to Aston Villa 5 years in the past.
That’s as a result of Jurgen Klopp’s senior stars have been in Doha on the time as they competed for the Membership World Cup.
And it stays to be seen if there may be any wriggle room as the brand new Champions League format comes into play.
The EFL and Uefa declined to remark.
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