Liverpool midfielder Lucas Leiva is ready to make his comeback on the club's USA tour.

New boss Brendan Rodgers intends to use the ball-winning Brazilian over the coming weeks, as Liverpool prepare for friendlies against Toronto, Roma and Andre Villas-Boas's Tottenham.

He said: "He'll have some involvement. He's still got some way to go to get back to where he was before the injury but he's back two months early.

"This is normally a nine month injury. He's been back in seven, and that's great credit to his work and the work of the medics here.

"He's done very, very well and is working very hard. We can feed him into some of the games and increase his mental capacity to improve, because obviously it was a serious injury."