Mikel Arteta has refused to criticise the decision to postpone the first leg of Arsenal's Carabao Cup semi-final tie with Liverpool.
The Gunners travel to Anfield on Thursday for what should have initially been the second leg but was reverted to the first, with last week's meeting at the Emirates Stadium called off following a string of positive Covid-19 cases at Liverpool.
It has since been confirmed the majority of those were false positives but Arteta remains unmoved by the changing challenges coronavirus has brought to the game.
"It's something that is not in our control," he said on the eve of the game.
"The EFL is responsible to check every single player's status and then make the decision whether the game is played or not.
"The decision was to postpone the match and I'm sure if that was the case, then they had the right arguments to do so.
"We just trust that every test is going to be as reliable as possible. It is always going to be a percentage that might get the results wrong.
"First of all, you have to trust the people who do it, that it's done in the right way and that we have the right equipment or the best possible equipment that we have and after that, it is difficult to judge."
