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Europa League News :: Liverpool take an extended road trip to Madrid for Europa League clash

Posted on 2010-04-20 by Gooner

Liverpool have reached Paris on their 1,200-mile journey to Thursday's Europa League semi-final with Atletico Madrid.

With the volcanic ash cloud continuing to cause travel chaos across northern Europe, the Reds were forced to abandon plans to fly direct to Spain.

The team are due to travel from Paris to Bordeaux by train on Wednesday before flying on to Madrid. However, with air traffic restrictions easing late on Tuesday, they could yet fly from Paris to Madrid.

Liverpool arrived in the French capital by Eurostar train shortly before 1900 BST on Tuesday.

"We are assessing things hour by hour," said boss Rafael Benitez. "We have two or three options going and at this moment just one coming back but we will see if we can improve that.

"We had some time [on Monday] to rest the players. It will not be ideal but we will try to do the best for them."

Sourced From : BBC Sport

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