Boxing Day: Arsenal sweep Norwich City off the pitch – Tottenham beat Crystal Palace with ease

Meanwhile, Tottenham Hotspur beat Crystal Palace 3-0 (2-0). The guests had to dispense with team manager Patrick Vieira, who has tested positive for coronavirus – not an individual case.

A total of three Boxing Day matches have been cancelled, and the Premier League now has 14 matches to play. The Omikron variant has always kept the entire country in suspense, and many clubs are groaning under the added burden of more and more positive tests.

Jurgen Klopp expressed his anger

It’s also hard to find catch-up dates in the tight schedule with two championships in the cup. So Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp expressed his anger. In light of the increased burdens on professionals, the former Dortmund champion said: “I have not only worried about the well-being of the players since this year. I have been talking about it for six years or more. I can not see that there will be changes.”

Klopp also called for more cohesion in the face of the epidemic. No one can predict how the pandemic will develop in the coming days, weeks or months, “but one thing is clear to me: together we are stronger,” Klopp wrote in his Christmas message to Liverpool fans.

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