Carabao Cup - Quarter Finals ** spoilers ** [21st - 22nd December 2021]

BaZ87 said:
An incredibly strong squad named by Leicester and somewhat surprising considering just 6 days ago they had to postpone two League games due to covid. The sooner there's full transparency regarding covid cases and cancellations the better.
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The rules changed yesterday (prior to kickoff), you only have to isolate for 7 days. So if they had negative LFT on days 6 and 7 they would be free to play. Their last match was 10 days prior, so they could've had positive tests early last week who couldn't play on the 16th/19th but were fully cleared to play today.
 
HangTime said:
The rules changed yesterday (prior to kickoff), you only have to isolate for 7 days. So if they had negative LFT on days 6 and 7 they would be free to play. Their last match was 10 days prior, so they could've had positive tests early last week who couldn't play on the 16th/19th but were fully cleared to play today.
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I'm aware of the changes but you have to remember the circumstances around Leicester's postponement vs Spurs. On the Wednesday (15th) Rodgers said Leicester had their request for the game to be postponed rejected by the PL and it was only after a further outbreak on the Thursday that resulted in the game being called off. Any players that tested positive on Thursday 16th wouldn't have been able to feature today and off the top of my head I couldn't name any first team squad player missing for Leicester today (with covid at least).

My post wasn't a dig at Leicester but the whole system and processes around games being postponed. What changed between the 15th and 16th for the Leicester - Spurs game to be postponed? Something just doesn't add up. Either the PL tried to pressure Leicester into playing on the 16th only to back down at the last minute (which screwed the fans over) or Leicester's Thursday 'outbreak' wasn't quite what it was made out to be.
 
Purdy said:
That sucks. I'm sure we would anyway but better be a team as weak or weaker than today.
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Looking at the fixtures, I wouldn't be surprised if we go a bit stronger than I had initially thought. The 2 legs of the semi fall either side of Shrewsbury in the Cup. Covid and injuries permitting, I'd guess we'll see all or most of Kostas, Gomez, Konate, Williams, Milner, Ox, Jones, Taki & Origi and then the kids playing in the Shrewsbury game.

And I hope Klopp announces that we'll be putting the kids out vs Shrewsbury and we massively discount tickets again just to **** off their Chairman after this.
 
BaZ87 said:
I'm aware of the changes but you have to remember the circumstances around Leicester's postponement vs Spurs. On the Wednesday (15th) Rodgers said Leicester had their request for the game to be postponed rejected by the PL and it was only after a further outbreak on the Thursday that resulted in the game being called off. Any players that tested positive on Thursday 16th wouldn't have been able to feature today and off the top of my head I couldn't name any first team squad player missing for Leicester today (with covid at least).

My post wasn't a dig at Leicester but the whole system and processes around games being postponed. What changed between the 15th and 16th for the Leicester - Spurs game to be postponed? Something just doesn't add up. Either the PL tried to pressure Leicester into playing on the 16th only to back down at the last minute (which screwed the fans over) or Leicester's Thursday 'outbreak' wasn't quite what it was made out to be.
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It's more nuanced than that though. The isolation period starts from when symptoms start, not from when a positive test result is returned (unless the test comes first). So players with a positive test returned on Thursday 16th could still be eligible to play on Wednesday 22rd evening if their symptoms started early enough to do 7 days isolation before the match.

Not saying it's impossible they are gaming the system, I agree it does look a bit sus as 'more cases' on Thursday would arguably have to have been existing cases just without a positive test in the above sceanrio, but as you've inferred, without full transparency it's we'll never really know if that's the case or not.
 
HangTime said:
It's more nuanced than that though. The isolation period starts from when symptoms start, not from when a positive test result is returned (unless the test comes first). So players with a positive test returned on Thursday 16th could still be eligible to play on Wednesday 22rd evening if their symptoms started early enough to do 7 days isolation before the match.

Not saying it's impossible they are gaming the system, I agree it does look a bit sus as 'more cases' on Thursday would arguably have to have been existing cases just without a positive test in the above sceanrio, but as you've inferred, without full transparency it's we'll never really know if that's the case or not.
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In the unlikely scenario that Leicester had x players confirmed out on Wednesday and others showing symptoms (which would take them over the magical number for a postponement) then why did the PL reject their request? Again, this isn't me pointing the finger at Leicester. It's entirely possible that the PL are trying to put as much pressure on clubs to field u21 and or u17 players and eventually buckled when Leicester refused.

Until there is more transparency, even just between the PL and all 20 clubs on each case, then I can see the situation being abused with some clubs being forced into playing under harsher circumstances than others.
 
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