Liverpool take on Aston Villa in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals on Tuesday night - a match you can see live on Sky Sports Football - before facing Monterrey in Doha the following evening.
As a result, the European champions have opted to split their playing and coaching resources in order to be able to play in both competitions, with Liverpool U23 boss Neil Critchley reportedly taking charge of the club's Carabao Cup last-eight tie at Villa Park.
Meanwhile, manager Jurgen Klopp will take his strongest possible side out to Qatar as the club look to win the Club World Cup for the first time in their history, with the German explaining his thinking to Sky Sports.
"We had to plan and had talks about the Club World Cup in Qatar for much longer," he said. "We had to make a decision and the boys wanted to play - it's hopefully not a once in a lifetime chance, but it doesn't happen too often, you have to win the Champions League!
"After that we started playing the Carabao Cup. In England, [the Club World Cup] is not that important, for the rest of the world they look at that. We are Liverpool, a worldwide brand, we cannot do what we want, we must do what our supporters want.
"We didn't know if we'd go through [in the domestic competition]. Arsenal was a tough draw, we played it with a very young team and they did brilliant - now there's an opportunity for them to play the next round."
So, which players could feature in these two fixtures some 4,000 miles apart?
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