Liverpool travel to the Emirates Stadium this afternoon, knowing a win will not only keep their five point advantage at the top of the table, it will also seriously dent Arsenal's title chances.

The Reds have prodcued some excellent performances over the last few weeks, which have been especially impressive, given how many players we have had unavailable, becuase of injury or international duty.  Thankfully, our injury crisis seems to be easing, with Alexander-Arnold, Szoboszlia and Robertson all returning to first team action this week.  Wataru Endo will also be heading back to Liverpool early, after Japan's surprise exit at the Asian Cup, whilst Mo Salah is making good progress in his recovery from a muscle tear.

Whilst all that is good news, Klopp plans have been hit with two pieces of bad news in the last 48 hours.  Firstly, the sad news of the death of Conor Bradley's dad yesterday, is a timely reminder that whilst important, football is not the most important thing in life.  Secondly, 'Mr Chaos' - Darwin Nunez - left Anfield with a protective boot on Wednesday evening, and is a major doubt for todays game.

Continue rading below for all the early team news ahead of this afternoon's 4.30pm kick-off.

Darwin Nunez to be assessed today...

Speaking after the Chelsea game, Klopp confirmed that Nunez suffered a foot injury during the match, and needed an x-ray on Thursday.  Thankfully that came back clear, and the player took part in training yesterday, but it's unclear if Klopp will risk Nunez from the start, or look to use his other attacking options.

Klopp confirmed, "I don’t know if Darwin is available or not because after 20 minutes somebody stepped on his foot and it was very painful after the game.  He only took his boot off after the game because he didn’t want to see it before, he knew there was something. So, he left the stadium in a boot, and it was not a football boot.  So, nothing broke, X-ray clear, but [it is] swollen and we have to see if he can get his foot back into a boot or not because we all know that takes time. I did not see him this morning so we have to wait a little bit."

Trent Alexander-Arnold, Andy Robertson and Dominik Szoboszlai are all available, after their return to action against Chelsea, whilst Thiago Alcantara is nearing his first action of the season.  Thiago took part in Friday's training sessions, but is unlikely to make the squad to todays game.

Elsewhere, Kostas Tsimikas, Joel Matip, Ben Doak an Stefan Bajcetic remain on the long term injured list, and are unlikely to feature over the next few weeks.

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