Dominik Szoboszlai is ready to play against Leicester City on Sunday, Jürgen Klopp confirmed.
The summer signing missed Liverpool’s second pre-season match, against Greuther Furth earlier this week, with a minor ankle injury.
But the number 8 has now returned to training with the squad in Singapore and will have more minutes when the Reds meet Leicester in a 10am BST kick-off at the National Stadium.
“Yes, Dom is back, he trains tonight and if nothing happens here, he will play tomorrow night, yes, definitely,” Klopp said at a pre-match press conference on Saturday.
“It’s okay, it was nothing serious. In these moments we had a lot of intense sessions and at one point he just rolled his ankle. We all know that anything can happen there, but nothing really happened except that he needed a few days of rest, proper care and was back racing shortly after.
“So he was training yesterday now, but obviously the training yesterday wasn’t intense; after the long journey we just had to shake our legs a bit, play a rondo and the players fired a bit after the session, that’s all.
“Tonight is a real session and tomorrow the game. At the moment there is nothing against him playing, yes.”
Thiago Alcantara, Stefan Bajcetic and Conor Bradley were three players left out of Liverpool’s 27-man squad for the trip to South-East Asia. Asked specifically about Bajcetic’s progress, Klopp replied: “Stefan is in the final stages of returning to team training.
“We left him and Thiago at home because the trip would cost him two, three, maybe four days of training and we thought it didn’t make sense at a very important phase of his rehabilitation for the two boys.
“But I’m in constant contact, so he’ll be back in team training, that’s the plan for now when we get home.” It’s good.
“Yes, super talented player, a really cool package. Unfortunately we haven’t seen him play for a while as it was a bad injury not a bad injury but for a young player it was a bad injury where you feel fit again pretty quickly but you’re still not allowed to do a lot and then you have to wait and wait and wait, and then you can go from a certain point – and that’s where we are now.
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“Yes, he played for the six of us, he played for the eight of us, he scored goals for us. He showed a lot of tactical discipline at an early age, he plays really good football, good overview, good passing, a lot of good things.
But again, he’s still very young and we have to make sure we use him in the right way and at the right times. And we have to gradually increase the time that we can actually use it and that’s what we’re trying to do.
The manager added that he was beaten by Bradley to take him off the tour: “With Conor it’s a real shame, to be honest. Conor did very well. But things like that happen.”
