View: Arne Slot will rightly be raging as another Liverpool fixture shifted
Liverpool boss Arne Slot will be furious after the Premier League announced a new date for the fixture with Chelsea.
The Reds relayed the change on their official website [2 September] with the match moved to Sunday 20 October to be broadcast live on Sky Sports.
This leaves Liverpool with less than 72 hours to travel to RB Leipzig in the Champions League off the back of the two-week international break.
Arne Slot set for a busy mid-season schedule with Liverpool
UEFA changing the format in European competition from this season onwards was always going to bring controversy.
All sides competing in Europe this year will face eight league-phase opponents rather than the old group stage format of playing the same three sides home and away.
The Reds have been handed some tough opponents, with Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen set for trips to Anfield, as well as away fixtures against RB Leipzig and AC Milan among others.
Liverpool have been given the hardest opponents on paper of all the four English sides competing in the Champions League this term, and the Premier League schedule has set Slot some tough decisions to make regarding his squad selection.
Not only do Liverpool have to face RB Leipzig in Germany straight after a tough clash at Anfield with Chelsea, the Reds will host Real Madrid and Manchester City at Anfield in the same week.
The Premier League have made this task even harder with the latest change and it seems those who call the shots in football are making their decisions with a complete disregard for player welfare
We all saw last term what happened to the squad when injuries saw the available players burn out from the gruelling schedule and Slot must make some hard decisions this season to balance the workload among his thin squad.
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