Liverpool could welcome back Alexander Isak and Giorgi Mamardashvili for the game against Chelsea as Arne Slot’s injury problems ease.
The 2025 champions were without their main two goalkeepers and centre-forwards for last week’s defeat to Manchester United.
But Isak, who scored against Crystal Palace on his last appearance, has returned to training and Slot is waiting to discover how long he can play on Saturday.
“Alex trained with us again, only yesterday for the first time so that’s a positive,” he said. “Yesterday he did parts of it, so hopefully he can do parts – or everything – today and let’s then see how much we’re going to use him tomorrow.”
Mamardashvili suffered a deep cut to his knee in the Merseyside derby win over Everton on 19 April and Slot added: “Giorgi will train with us today for the first time so let’s see how he’s going to react.”
However, first-choice goalkeeper Alisson, who has not played since March’s 4-0 win over Galatasaray, remains out, along with Mohamed Salah.
“Alisson not yet, doesn’t train with us yet but very close to,” said Slot. “Mo [has] also not trained with us yet but is also, like Ali, getting very, very, very close to training with us.”
Salah will have a maximum of two more games in his Liverpool career, away at Aston Villa next Friday and then at home to Brentford on 24 May.
Florian Wirtz, who missed training with illness on Wednesday, is expected to be available while third-choice goalkeeper Freddie Woodman, who has started their last two games after coming off the bench at Hill Dickinson Stadium, is set to return to the bench.
Liverpool will still be without Hugo Ekitike, Conor Bradley, Giovanni Leoni and Wataru Endo.
Slot is waiting to see if Bradley will be fit for the start of pre-season training, adding: “I think – I don’t think, this is what they tell me – in the rehab it’s always really important in certain steps if they go well or don’t go well.
“It’s really difficult in the stage where he’s in now to predict exactly when he will be back; that will be by margins.
“He’s still inside, he works really hard to make the right steps but he’s at this moment quite far away of already going outside, and that makes it quite complicated to tell how long it’s going to take.”
