ARSENAL boss Jonas Eidevall feels there are a number of issues with the women’s League Cup and “a lot of room for improvement.”

The Swede was speaking after Wednesday’s quarter-final at Championship outfit London City Lionesses was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch and rescheduled for seven days later.

Eidevall told a press conference on Friday: “It was frustrating, but I think if you take [the League Cup] as an example, with the regulations around it and the format of it, I think it’s a tournament that other countries look at and say ‘that is not how we should run a tournament.’

“I think there is a lot of room for improvement in ensuring a better competition. It’s probably something that needs looking at.”

Eidevall went on to give some examples of what he meant.

That included describing it as “an absolute joke” that a one-match suspension from a red card in the WSL can be served in the League Cup, adding: “I don’t see how you mix two competitions, especially when not all teams in the league are a part of that competition at the group stage, that makes it even more weird.”

He also referenced the recent case where an independent tribunal deducted three points from Aston Villa after they fielded an ineligible player, former Gunner Noelle Maritz, in a group-stage win over Sunderland, as he emphasised the desire for competitions having “clear rules that if [something] happens, this is the consequence of it.”

Eidevall said the League Cup is “surrounded with ‘if this happens, let’s see what the consequence is going to be,’ which makes it very unpredictable for any team or player taking part” and that there should not have to be a tribunal for a case such as the Villa one.

He then turned to pitches, saying: “That’s maybe more of a women’s football cup problem than a [League] Cup problem, but still, it affects here now.

“If you can’t play on your pitch, what is the plan? Do you have a reserve pitch you can play on instead? Can we move the game to somewhere else?

“Or, in this case here, no-one knows what’s going to happen when we can’t play on the original pitch, which makes it really complicated, because now we have to move the game on to a different period where we have less availability on players than we had the week before because there is a Gold Cup.

“I don’t think it needs to be like that. In Sweden, which has more severe weather than the UK, games very rarely get cancelled, and if they do, you play them the day after on the pitch, or you move it to the reserve pitch. I don’t get why we can’t play the game where it’s supposed to be played.”

Eidevall’s side are next in action when they host Manchester City in the FA Cup fifth round on Sunday.