Your Liverpool morning headlines for Sunday, April 10
Jurgen Klopp has already hinted at his Liverpool line-up to face Man City
"Pretty much (everyone is fit). I had a look last time on my smart phone and it looks like everyone is available again."
Jurgen Klopp ’s declaration that he has a fully fit squad to choose from for Liverpool ’s trip to Man City on Sunday would have been music to Kopites’ ears with their side’s Premier League title challenge on the line. Win at the Etihad and the Reds go top. They know what they have to do.
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Admittedly Klopp’s injury update at his pre-match press conference on Friday morning was swiftly undone by the absence of Roberto Firmino from the training pictures released later that afternoon. The common consensus had been the Brazilian should start at the Etihad, with it now unclear if he’ll be available for the game or not.
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Sadio Mane could be about to prove Lionel Messi right when Liverpool play Man City
If Sadio Mane were to score against Man City on Sunday, he would achieve something only one other Liverpool player has ever managed to do during Jurgen Klopp’s reign as manager. Indeed, only five other Reds have even registered such a feat in the Premier League.
Namely score a goal on one’s birthday. The Senegalese becomes the latest member of Klopp’s mentality monsters to enter the 30-club this weekend as he celebrates a landmark birthday. In search of a second Premier League title in three years as Liverpool chase an unprecedented quadruple, if he could help guide the Reds to victory over the reigning champions to move top of the table, it would be the perfect present.
Yet despite once being part of an untouchable front three that Pep Guardiola feared alongside Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah, Mane isn’t even certain to start at the Etihad. And that’s despite the fact Liverpool’s Brazilian number nine missed training on Friday and the Egyptian King appears fatigued and is out of form, such is the depth Klopp now boasts in attack following the arrivals of Luis Diaz and Diogo Jota.
