Jurgen Klopp makes 'painful' Liverpool injury admission as Mohamed Salah update given

Jurgen Klopp admitted it is 'so good' having Mo Salah return to Liverpool duty.

The Reds' talisman is back available ahead of the Europa League last 16 first leg against Sparta Prague this evening. Salah, who is Liverpool's 19-goal top scorer, has played only twice in 2024 after suffering a hamstring injury representing Egypt at AFCON.

However, Salah has travelled to the Czech capital and is 'full of energy' as he aims to help Liverpool take a step towards the quarter-finals of the Europa League. Liverpool manager Klopp said: "Mo travelled. He's with us, he trained two days.

"Full of energy. We have to see but it's so good that he's back. It's really good for us and you can see he's very happy.

"A very unlucky situation [him] being out that long. "He played an incredible game at Brentford and was then out again."

Dominik Szoboszlai made his return from injury in last weekend's dramatic 1-0 win at Nottingham Forest. The midfielder had a hamstring issue of his own. Klopp admitted the Hungary captain was suffering from pain and had to wait until given the green light for the £60 million summer signing to return to match action.

Klopp added: “You might be surprised, but we don’t talk about line-ups in these press conferences!

“It’s good that he’s back. You know him probably very well, he loves playing football, being injured for him is tough, tough, tough.

“It was not an injury where it was painful every day, he was just not allowed to train properly, how it is with muscle injuries.

“So that’s the reason why we had to be careful in his rehab because, if we would have asked Dom, he could have trained completely with the team since two or three weeks.

“But the medical advisors told us no, no, we have to wait, and that’s what we did. Now he’s back, played a few minutes and is in the squad. All the rest, we will see.”