Ahead of the 2022-23 season, the Premier League has announced that teams will be allowed to make five substitutions instead of three and name nine players on the bench instead of seven. Does this create an unfair advantage?On the surface,
it would appear that clubs with bigger squads and better players would benefit. Why else would Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp campaign for it for the past years?When the
2019-20 Premier League season resumed after the interruption of the first wave of COVID-19 struck England - five substitutions were allowed to be used in Europe's top leagues.Scroll to ContinueThis was kept in Spain, Italy, Germany, and France but the Premier League defaulted to only allowing
three from the 2020-21 season. conducted a series of tests with focus teams in Europe, and found that Jurgen Klopp argues that his reasoning behind supporting five subs is to do with 'player
welfare' and not gaining a 'competitive advantage'. It's very difficult to argue with this as well.Regardle s of the opinions of opposers to the use of five substitutions, it will be in action from the 2022-23 Premier League season. The main beneficiary will be the players - who will
hope to see a decrease in the average number of injuries acro s the season.Read More Liverpool Coverage
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