Liverpool postpone the first leg of the League Cup Insider: not disclosed in the first place after the discovery of the player's false positive

Recently, according to Athletic, Liverpool did not choose to go public after discovering false positives in the team, but continued to postpone the game, although this decision was supported by the local health department.

After Liverpool's FA Cup win over Shrewsbury on Sunday 9 January, Klopp said there had been a positive case of COVID-19 in the squad. It is reported that the epidemic in the team has affected as many as 40 players and logistics personnel. Subsequently, Klopp said that these players in the team were "false positives", they were not really infected with the new crown, and only 1 player was really infected - Arnold.

Inside sources from the club said Klopp believed the "false positive" players did not meet the health requirements and could not play.

Some Liverpool players were unhappy about this, they were unable to play and were forced to quarantine in designated locations – away from their families , even though they weren't infected with COVID-19. For some suspicious, they will inevitably question Liverpool's intentions to postpone the game. It is reported that Liverpool's match against Chelsea was the source of the virus - because the next day a player was infected with the new crown.

When the results come out, with two days left before the first leg of the League Cup semi-final against Arsenal, the team will head to London again. That means they need to share the same bus, plane, hotel and locker room. They will play against Arsenal's players and get up close and personal with them.

Liverpool signed a contract with Merseyside's laboratory, called BioGrad, where Liverpool conducted a second test and the results showed that the players were mostly false positives. When the FA announced that liverpool and Arsenal's match had been postponed, they already knew that a positive result in the first round contradicted what had been found in BioGrad. However, the advice of the local public health authorities is that the policy on false positives should not be relaxed.

However, Klopp's claims have led to complaints from other clubs – including Nottingham Forest, who argued Arsenal had an unfair advantage despite the fact that they eliminated Arsenal from the FA Cup on the same day Liverpool beat Shrewsbury. The uncertainty created by Klopp's comments could lead to an investigation into which, within Liverpool, Klopp was deemed to have a problematic statement – those players were not "unqualified" but out of safety concerns. You know, if all of a sudden these players play, the outside world will think it looks weird.

(Bear & Raspberry)