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Liverpool star Trent Alexander-Arnold struck the Premier League game, saying part of it « is contrary to common sense ». .

Premier League champions manager Jürgen Klopp criticized the planning amid a busy series of games for clubs.

Three days after losing to Atalanta in the Champions League, Liverpool will face Brighton and Hove Albion on Saturday.

Alexander-Arnold, who is absent due to a calf injury, also criticized the planning and said that a change was necessary.

« At a time when we had a three month suspension, coming back and not being able to get fully fit as we’d like and having to play the rest of the games and then not get much of one Break – I think we have two weeks and then a 10-day preseason – and then straight back to the most competitive league in the world . . . difficult, « the full-back told Standard Sport.

« The times of the games, related to your most recent internationals that are coming back [before you play early on a Saturday], are really contrary to common sense. Anyone with common sense would realize that this is not possible.

« The teams that play midweek most weeks – I think Tottenham had it recently when they played on Thursday and then on Sunday at 12 noon. « .

« There is not enough time to recover, your body cannot recover as quickly. Your muscles don’t go 100 percent in, and that’s how you absorb injuries. Something has to change. « 

Liverpool, who are runner-up in the Premier League, will play eight games in December and Alexander-Arnold said the injury problems were predictable.

« I think these problems could really have been predicted, anyone could have seen them coming, » he said.

« Maybe not to this extent because it looks like every club is feeling the harshness of the schedule, but you’d expect that time to come around December and Christmas because it’s the most intense then, though This is far too early to happen this early in the season – eight games later. It shows that something is wrong. As long as something happens soon, it’s better than nothing. « 

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