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Liverpool fans given huge team news boost

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With Liverpool’s players and coaching staff at their second winter warm-weather training camp, bodies and minds are being tuned ahead of a pivotal week in the team’s season.

Jurgen Klopp’s side host Bayern Munich in the first leg of a titanic Champions League last-16 clash five days before visiting Manchester United for a marquee Premier League fixture.

The second of those matches has taken on a far more demanding dimension in recent times as a result of the dramatic improvement under Ole-Gunnar Solskjaer.

United have won 10 of their 11 Premier League matches since the Norwegian was placed in temporary charge and the team are in totally different shape to the one brushed aside by Xherdan Shaqiri and company at Anfield in December.

However, Liverpool and their fans have been given huge encouragement by the events of recent days.

United’s midweek home Champions League defeat to Paris Saint-Germain has been followed by another iceberg; this time in the shape of injuries to key men Anthony Martial and Jesse Lingard.

Solskjaer revealed at his media conference on Friday, as quoted by Sky Sports, that the duo “will be out for two to three weeks looking at it now”, with the injuries sustained against PSG.

That rules them out of the clash of the two giants at Old Trafford on Sunday week, a match in which both would have been expected to be in the starting XI.

Both players have been in good touch of late, with Martial demonstrating his capacity to cause mayhem with his magnificent solo goal for United against Fulham last weekend.

The entire Liverpool fanbase will surely be dancing with joy that their right-back, whoever that may be on the day, will not have to quell the forward who has scored 11 goals this season.

The absence of Lingard, a player with the movement, mobility and goalscoring potential that always makes him a threat, will also be welcomed.

A double blow of serious proportions for United, and great news for their next league opponents.

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