Liverpool will look to take their impressive domestic momentum into the Europa League on Thursday night.
Jurgen Klopp‘s Reds are in amazing form, having won their last six games in all competitions including the Carabao Cup final.
Now, Liverpool will be taking on Sparta Prague in the first leg of their last-16 tie in the Czech capital in a 5:45pm kickoff.
The Reds have been handed a double boost ahead of the match, with Mohamed Salah back in training and Dominik Szoboszlai seemingly fully fit now.
Salah only has 45 minutes under his belt for Liverpool since the start of the year, having had to deal with a hamstring injury and then muscular problems
Likewise, Szoboszlai hasn’t featured much for the Reds since New Year’s Day, sitting out 10 games due to a hamstring issue.
However, the 23-year-old returned to the fold against Nottingham Forest last time out, replacing Harvey Elliott with 15 minutes to go.
Liverpool midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai ‘is back’ and raring to go
Speaking ahead of Thursday’s match, Klopp suggested that Szoboszlai is fit and raring to go, though the manager didn’t give away whether either player would start.
“It is good that he is back,” the Liverpool boss told the Reds media team. “He loves playing football. Being injured is for him tough, tough, tough.
“Now he is back, played a few minutes, is in the squad. All the rest, we will see.”
Szoboszlai has been a crucial player for Liverpool this season, and he also makes the team better as a whole.
As per Liverpool.com, “he seems to have everything attached to his profile from physicality to technique to industry to creativity to everything in between”.
Szoboszlai got some minutes under his belt against Forest, helping him to shake off some cobwebs, and Sparta are not to be underestimated, so there’s a good chance he could start on Thursday.
So often the ‘phenomenal‘ playmaker has been the game-changer for Liverpool this season, so if he does start, let’s hope he can do the same against the reigning Czech champions.
