Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has threatened to quit the Carabao Cup if the EFL do not accommodate their packed fixture schedule. A 5-4 penalty shootout win over Arsenal, after a crazy, thrilling 5-5 draw at Anfield in which Divock Origi scored his second of the game to equalise in the fourth minute of added time, put the Reds into the quarter-finals. Match dates for the last-eight round are scheduled for the week commencing December 16 – when Liverpool will be in Qatar at the FIFA Club World Cup. And Klopp said if a suitable alternative, the most likely being week commencing January 6, the scheduled date for the first leg of the semi-final, then they would refuse to play. “FIFA told...
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