Here are your Liverpool morning headlines for Friday, December 16.
Analysis meetings, Dubai bonding and impressing team-mates - inside Darwin Nunez's return to Liverpool training
If Liverpool's plan for a mid-season training camp in Dubai was largely dictated by the location of the World Cup, only one player involved in Qatar will really feel the benefit of that decision.
Darwin Nunez's first taste of the World Cup was bittersweet. It would no doubt have been a dream come true for the Uruguay international to lead the line alongside the iconic Luis Suarez in Doha, but the Liverpool strikers past and present endured an indifferent time.
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Nunez was involved in one particularly sweeping move to help set up Giorgian de Arrascaeta in La Celeste's 2-0 win over Ghana in the final group stage fixture, but it was a generally frustrating time for the the Reds star and the Uruguayans in general as they were eliminated in dramatic fashion. South Korea's advancement on the metric of goals scored will likely rankle for some time for the South American nation.
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World Cup final referee twice left Jurgen Klopp fuming after making Liverpool 'look like butchers'
Millions of people will be glued to their television screens on Sunday afternoon when Argentina take on France in the World Cup final.
Lionel Messi will be looking to go out on the ultimate high in his international career as he aims to inspire his country to victory, meanwhile Les Blues are going in search of consecutive triumphs in football's showpiece fixture.
Granted the honour of officiating this contest will be Polish referee Szymon Marciniak, ensuring Anthony Taylor and Michael Oliver of the Premier League have missed out. Marciniak has made history in the process of his appointment, becoming the first person from his native country to take charge of a World Cup final.
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