Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says Mohamed Salah will start today's FA Cup semifinal against Manchester City.

Salah was left out of the Reds starting XI for the midweek Champions League contest with Benfica, but there is no doubt he will return on Saturday and Klopp is in no doubt Salah will find his best form.

The Anfield boss explained, as he spoke honestly about Salah's dip in form of late said: “I know that Mo will finish strong.

"It's just at the moment we have to reset because each game for us is a final. In our business the problem we have is that in January he had the most intense period of his whole career - the (Africa Cup of Nations) tournament went to the wire, Egypt played in the final, had all these 120 minutes.

“The role he has is super, super massive. There is a huge responsibility on his shoulders with dressing room meetings and stuff like this with no recovery at all. Then you have the issue of being a superstar in your own country and everyone wants something of you. It is all super intense. Again, that is ok for the bout, but now we are in a period where there is no down time and that's completely normal (at this stage of the season)."

Salah has gone 753 minutes without a goal in open play for Liverpool.

Klopp said: “A player like Mo who likes to dribble – and he is really good, he scored outstanding goals with dribbling. Do I say to him: 'Don't dribble?' No! It is 'dribble in the right moments and keep the ball, keep it simple' – all these kind of things. That is a process. It's not a long process, a week or two. We have a final every game from the beginning of January - that is crazy! My God, I would love to have a full week to train. But we don't have it, it's fine and we deal with it. Mo will deal with it."