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Liverpool will be hosting Swansea in their Premier league encounter on Sunday. Liverpool will be looking to maintain their momentum against Swans and put themselves back in the contention for Champions League qualification spot. Meanwhile Swansea will be looking to break Liverpool’s dominance and find themselves back to winning ways.

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Team News:

Klopp will be welcoming in-form midfielder Phillipe Coutinho, after the Brazilian limped off in Liverpool’s 4-1 win against Manchester City at Etihad. Klopp will be looking to make a change in the midfield line, as Lucas Leiva will miss the fixture due to suspension. Welsh midfielder Joe Allen will be replacing Lucas in the starting line-up.

Daniel Sturridge is struggling to make his first-team action; he injured his foot ahead of Liverpool’s Europa League clash against Bordeaux. Liverpool’s skipper Jordan Henderson returned to training, but he is not in the contention to make his return to the squad. Liverpool defender
Mamadou Sakho will be in sidelines and Croatian defender Dejan Lovren will be keeping up his place in the line-up along with Martin Skrtel.

Jonjo Shelvey will be serving his two-match suspension, thus making him unavailable against his former club. Jack Cork will be replacing Shelvey in the starting line-up.

Predicted line-up:

Liverpool: Mignolet, Clyne, Skrtel, Lovren, Moreno, Can, Milner, Allen, Coutinho, Lallana, Benteke.

Swansea: Fabianski, Naughton, Fernandez, Williams, Taylor, Ki, Cork, Ayew, Sigurdsson, Montero, Gomis.

Predicted score:
Liverpool 3- 1 Swansea

Liverpool’s injury woes continue as Daniel Sturridge picked up another injury during the training session on Thursday. The striker has been out since October 4 and was keen to make his return to first-team action for Klopp against Bordeaux in the Europa League.

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Jurgen Klopp commented about Sturridge’s injury after Liverpool’s 2-1 win against Bordeaux:

"I don't know too much about the situation"

“It wasn't a situation I saw because we trained in two groups - the starting line-up and the other players.”

"It was really close to the game when the news came. At the moment we have to wait."

"We trained this morning, we were at the hotel and he had to leave to have a scan. We have to wait for the results."

Since joining from Chelsea in January 2013, Sturridge has managed to score 42 goals in 70 appearances for the Merseyside club. Sturridge has missed 68 games for Liverpool due to his injuries.

The injuries he has suffered since the start of last season.

August 2014: Returned early from the pre-season tour due to a hamstring injury.
September 2014: Injured his thigh during international duty.
October 2014: Suffers a calf strain during the training.
November 2014: Picks up a thigh injury after returning to full training.
March 2015: Injures his hip against Manchester United.
October 2015: Suffers knee injury after just three appearances.

November 2015: Foot injury during the training.