Liverpool will receive £1.3m compensation from their Champions League opponents RB Leipzig after being forced to travel to Hungary for their last 16 home leg.
Jurgen Klopp's Reds side take a 2-0 advantage to the Puskas Arena in Budapest on Wednesday evening, a place in the quarter finals and a £9.5m prize on offer for the victors.
Restrictions over international travel introduced last month in Germany to curb the spread of Covid-19 meant that the first leg of the tie was also played in the Hungarian capital, with the planned clash at Anfield now taking place at the same venue owing to quarantine measures currently in place in the UK which would mean that Leipzig's squad and staff would have to quarantine for 14 days before being able to fulfil the fixture.
But a Saxony health law in Germany also decrees that 14 days quarantine is needed for Germans returning from countries affected by coronavirus mutations, and with that law the root cause as to the change of venue in the first place it means that the compensation costs for such a move are burdened by Leipzig, who must pay Liverpool around £1.3m.
Leipzig's commercial director Florian Scholz told German newspaper Bild : "We cannot play the game in Liverpool due to the corona rules. So Liverpool had to look for a new venue.
Leipzig had to pay £257,000 rental costs to secure the Puskas Arena, owned by the Hungarian FA, last month and will have to halve the cost of rental with Liverpool for the clash on Wednesday.
Liverpool would not have been hit with such costs for the first leg owing to the fact that under UK law they would have been able to freely travel to Germany to play the game should German law have allowed.
This season's Champions League has taken on even greater significance for Liverpool in recent weeks after their Premier League slump continued, the Reds now very much on the fringes of the push for the top four and losing further ground at the weekend following a 1-0 home defeat against Fulham.
