Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has accepted their fixture pile up which will see them field two different teams in 24 hours.
Liverpool will field different teams in two separate competitions within 24 hours after the EFL announced the date of their Carabao Cup quarter-final with Aston Villa will not be changed.
The Reds will play at Villa on 17 December at 19:45 GMT and will compete in the Club World Cup semi-final in Qatar the following day at 17:30 GMT.
After their Champions League win over Genk, Klopp said: "Do we want to be really in trouble with FIFA? I am not sure. Do we want to be really in trouble with the EFL? Probably not. We respect the competitions. The Carabao Cup, it always sounds like we don't want to play it but that's not true. What I don't like about the Carabao Cup, to be 100 per cent honest, is two legs in the semi-final.
"I don't understand that, it's in the most-busy period and you think, 'OK, we play two semi-finals?' That I don't understand and I don't like. The rest is a nice competition. We don't play the FA Cup in the first part of the season, so we play there and that's all OK.
"The Club World Cup, you play only if you win the Champions League and that doesn't happen in your life five million times, so that means we will take the opportunity if they ask you. Is it the best time of the year? No. Are we anyway pretty busy? Yes. But you go there and we try to play all the games we have with all that we have."
