Nightmare for Jurgen Klopp As Liverpool Face Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal After UCL in Midweek

Nightmare for Jurgen Klopp As Liverpool Face Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal After UCL in Midweek

Babajide Orevba
updated at April 12, 2023 at 8:04 PM
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  • Liverpool will face a herculean task in the opening weeks of next season’s Premier League after the fixtures were released
  • Jurgen Klopp's side will face Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal and Tottenham during weekends after midweek games in the Champions League
  • Other English teams that qualified for Europe’s elite competitions will only face two of the big six teams in the opening weeks of the league season

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has been handed his worst nightmare after the English Premier League fixtures were released on Thursday, June 15.

Liverpool, Tottenham, Chelsea and Manchester City will all feature in the Champions League following dates: September 7/6, September 13/14, October 4/5, October 11/12, October 25/26 and November 1/2.

The managers will now be mapping out their plans on how best to use their available players as the schedule is piled up than usual due to the six-week winter break for the World Cup.

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Jurgen Klopp handed a tough start to the Premier League next season. Photo: Giuseppe Maffia
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Daily Mail reports that just after each group stage match of the Champions League, Liverpool will face another traditional 'big six' team on four occasions: Chelsea (September 17), Arsenal (October 8), Manchester City (October 15) and Tottenham (November 5).

But straight from their European engagements, Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham will face just two of the big six teams in the Premier League.

Manchester United’s new manager Erik Ten Hag seems lucky not to have any game against the big six clubs

The highest-placed team from last season that United will face after a European game week are West Ham on October 29, Express reports.

Man Utd handed a tough start to Premier League season

Meanwhile, the English Premier League 2022/2023 schedule has been released with reigning champions Manchester City playing away at West Ham United on the opening match day while Manchester United host Brighton.

It will be a tough start for new United boss Erik Ten Hag after the Red Devils endured a nightmare 2021/2022 season finishing with their lowest points of the Premier League era.

In a statement via the club's website, Manchester United will take on Liverpool in their third game of the season as United's first 10 matches of the campaign also include trips to Leicester and Everton as well as a home game vs Arsenal.

Chelsea handed a tricky start to the Premier Leagues season

Sports Brief earlier reported that Chelsea will open their English Premier League campaign against Everton at the Goodison Park on August 6.

The Premier League has just released the fixtures of the new season that will start earlier due to the FIFA World Cup in November.

Thomas Tuchel dropped four points against Toffees last season, drawing the first leg against Rafael Benitez before Chelsea legend and former manager, Frank Lampard engineered a shock victory in the second leg.

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Babajide Orevba is a CAF accredited Nigerian journalist and HOD of the Local Desk with over 10 years of experience in media landscape.He studied NCE Political Science/Social Studies, AOCOED.
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