Jurgen Klopp during the Atalanta-Liverpool Champions League match on November 3, 2020. -

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For Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp, the big Premier League teams may soon be unable to field 11 able-bodied players unless structural changes are made to protect the welfare of teams exhausted by the streak frenzied matches.

"If we keep playing Wednesday night and Saturday at 12:30 p.m. I'm not sure we (the seven English teams competing in C1 or C3) will end the season with 11 players," Klopp said in an interview with Sky Sports , the main TV rights holder to Premier League matches.

"If you don't talk to BT Sport we're all screwed," added the technician.

The interview, which took place on Sunday, was not broadcast by Sky Sports.

The broadcaster has been accused of censorship across the Channel.

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Already facing a series of injuries, the Reds will play Atalanta Bergamo in C1 Wednesday night before moving to Brighton on Saturday in the league, three games in six and a half days since that of Leicester on Sunday night (3-0).

The Premier League is the only major European championship not to have renewed the measure introduced last season allowing up to five changes per game.

“Everyone tells me it's difficult, but it's (above all) difficult for the players.

This is the real difficulty.

For the rest, it is just a decision taken in an office ”, attacked Klopp, targeting in particular the broadcasters of the English championship, who plead for the maintenance of the identical calendar of the competitions, under the signed contracts. .

Might as well give the points to the opponent ...

"If I am still told about contracts, I will go crazy because they were not designed for a season with the Covid", hammered Klopp.

“We all have to adapt,” he urged, jokingly offering the points of victory to Brighton, where Liverpool travel on Saturday.

Klopp stressed that his complaints were not based on the personal interest of his club, the defending champion: "It was never about us when I mentioned it, it is about all English players. , of all the players who are going to play the European Championship, ”he continued.

A "brutal" schedule, says Lampard

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has said his side were 'doomed' when faced with the same situation earlier this month, after facing Istanbul Basaksehir in the Champions League on Wednesday night, three days before a Saturday lunchtime kickoff in Everton.

“I watched our program and it is brutal.

We face Arsenal for Boxing Day (December 26) and Aston Villa two days later, ”also complained Frank Lampard, Chelsea coach.

His Arsenal counterpart Mikel Arteta, also complained about the current situation, made worse by international matches and positive coronavirus tests.

“We have an incredible number of matches to come,” lamented the Spaniard, whose team is currently 11th, while five players in his squad are now injured and two positive for Covid-19.

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