Liverpool star Salah set for Sparta Prague start

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Liverpool star Salah set for Sparta Prague start
Liverpool star Salah set for Sparta Prague start
Liverpool star Salah set for Sparta Prague startFlashscore
The winger has been struggling with an injury issue ever since the African Cup of Nations.

Salah had to make do with an appearance off the bench in the Premier League against Manchester City at the weekend.

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But he may play in midweek against Sparta Prague, with manager Jurgen Klopp stating: It's possible it would have been possible for him to play longer in the last game (against City), but it was just the game, how it was," Klopp said, during Wednesday's pre-match press conference.

It's important that we build up Mo, obviously super-important, but in this game changing at half-time was not necessary or possible (because) we have to deal with changes carefully.

So, yeah, he is ready. He is top fit, everything is good now and we don't have to deal with these kind of things anymore. I'm not sure if he is ready for 90 minutes and I'm not sure we should do 90 minutes, but he's ready to start so that's how it is.

He would have been ready to start in the last game but then you don't know for how long it makes sense and that's always the problem when players come back.

I can't remember a game where I thought, 'Mo Salah cannot play, no problem.' It just never happened, so it's not cool to not have him but there was a game last Sunday and there are 10 more Premier League games and hopefully a lot more cup and European games. They are all as important and Mo was completely fine with that.

Would he have loved to play a little bit longer? Probably, yes, but I cannot before the game decide when we do what and these kind of things. But he's ready to start.

Should that then be 90 minutes on the pitch? That depends on how it looks in that moment but we all know Mo usually can play game after game after game after game.

Now he was out for a surprisingly long time, but now he is back and we have to make sure that we can really count on him consistently again."