Liverpool keeper Alisson Becker hits out at new Champions League format

"Sometimes nobody asks the players what they think about adding more games so maybe our opinion does not matter.

Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk and goalkeeper Alisson Becker during a training session. Picture: Peter Byrne/PA Wire.

Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker has called on football's authorities to speak to players about their welfare as the Reds prepare to start an expanded Champions League campaign.

UEFA's elite club-level competition now involves 36 teams, which means an extra two matches in a group stage which now does not finish until the end of January as opposed to mid-December.