Here are your Liverpool evening headlines for Thursday, March 10.
Four things spotted in Liverpool training
Liverpool are busy gearing up for their return to Premier League action this weekend when they face Brighton.
The Reds travel to the Amex Stadium looking to once again close the gap on leaders Manchester City in the league table.
Jurgen Klopp’s side are six points behind City with a game in hand, as the season begins to near its conclusion.
Ahead of the trip to the south coast, Liverpool’s players have been working hard at the AXA Training Centre in preparation for the match.
Here is a look at some of the things we spotted from Liverpool’s latest training session.
Bobby looks set for return
Some good news on the injury front sees Roberto Firmino looks primed to make his first-team return.
Klopp said last week before the win over West Ham that the Brazilian had been in training - and he was seen in images put out on March 7 - but he is yet to return to the matchday squad.
Firmino has been sidelined with an injury since the first leg victory over Inter Milan last month, and has missed Liverpool’s last six matches across four competitions.
Now that Firmino seems to be back fully integrated with the first-team’s training session, it looks like Brighton could mark his return from injury in some capacity.
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Gini Wijnaldum can't escape £156m Liverpool truth
If you say the name, ‘Gini Wijnaldum’ to Liverpool fans, the same first thought will come to all of their respective minds, writes Theo Squires.
“Barcelona!”
The Dutchman was the man for the big occasion at Anfield, departing last summer as an English, European and world champion and having left his mark on some of the biggest occasions during his five years on Merseyside.
Scoring against Chelsea, Man City, Arsenal, Tottenham and Everton in domestic competition, he'd also find the net in two Champions League semi-finals as well as score the opener in the final day victory in 2016/17 which saw the Reds return to Europe's elite competition in the first place.
But it was the second of those European Cup semi-finals, against Barcelona, where he wrote his name into Reds folklore forever.
Left on the bench at Anfield, with Liverpool trailing 3-0 on aggregate, he came on at half-time to score a brace in front of the Kop in an historic 4-0 win as Jurgen Klopp ’s side clinched the most famous of victories.
Next stop, Madrid and the Champions League final. Just a few weeks later Wijnaldum would help the Reds beat Tottenham to be crowned champions of Europe. Legendary status achieved.
No matter where the 31-year-old goes and what he achieves throughout the rest of his career, he will always be remembered for that Barcelona victory.
So why is it, when Paris Saint-Germain needed a big moment of their own on Wednesday night, he was left unused on the bench?
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Liverpool issue update on £80m Anfield Road expansion
Liverpool's expansion of the Anfield Road remains on track as managing director Andy Hughes hailed the "wow factor" of seeing the £80m project's progress.
The club officially started work at the end of the September when Jurgen Klopp put the first spade in the ground at an official 'groundbreaking' event at the stadium.
Back in 2019, it was initially thought that the plans would cost Liverpool around £60m to develop, but it is understood that figure has since risen by a third to £80m following the pandemic.
Liverpool are aiming to take their capacity up by a further 7,000 to 61,000 by the summer of 2023.
Storms Franklin and Eunice last month did threaten to hold up progress on the site, while the Reds' ongoing pursuit of all four trophies has made work for contractors, the Buckingham Group, slower than initially anticipated as a result of the packed fixture list.
The construction company has previously taken on work at football stadiums, but there is an acceptance within the Group that the 2018 project to renovate the Riverside Stand at Fulham's Craven Cottage pales in comparison to the expansion of the iconic Anfield.
Club officials say the development plan - the third major infrastructure project of the FSG era - is still on course for completion next year.
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