Liverpool have been given a huge boost ahead of their Champions League final against Tottenham – with Roberto Firmino returning to fitness.
The Brazilian has missed the last three matches, including the semi-final victory over Barcelona, with a thigh problem.
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Firmino has returned to fitness just in time for the Madrid showdown
Reds boss Jurgen Klopp has confirmed the striker is fit, although he would not go as far as saying he would start.
“Yes, he’s ready. If he will start… if Poch afterwards says his exact line-up then call me and I will tell you our line-up as well,” he said.
“If not, then I thought I’d keep at least a few question marks open.
“He’s fit, he’s trained, he’s here and if nothing happened from the moment he left the plane until now – I didn’t see him since then – he’ll be fine.”
Klopp laughed off his appalling record in finals by rebranding himself a “world record-holder in winning semi-finals” and insisting he is not the problem.
The German has lost the last six showpiece events he has contested since winning the German Cup in 2012.
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He has finished a Champions League runner-up twice (with Borussia Dortmund and then Liverpool last season) as well as losing two more German Cups with Dortmund and League Cup and Europa League finals with Liverpool.
It is a stick which Klopp has long been accustomed to being beaten with but ahead of their meeting with Spurs in Madrid, the 51-year-old joked about his record when asked whether he believed in fate or bad luck.
“Do you think I have an unlucky career? All my career was not unlucky,” he said.
“My missus always asks me before the season when is the final game of the season, because we are often in it, so I’m not unlucky.
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Klopp is feeling relaxed ahead of his third Champions League final
“Since 2012, apart from 2017, I was every year with my team in a final. We came there sometimes with luck.
“I am the world record-holder in the last seven years in winning semi-finals. But if I were to write a book about it probably no-one would buy it.
“If I were to sit in the room and think it is all about me, I am the reason, if I saw myself as a loser, then we would have a problem but I don’t see myself as this.
“If I were to be the reason for losing six years in a row, then everyone needs to worry.
“But we go in a situation where we learn – not from last season’s final as there were three strange goals – a lot from our time together.
“We want to win with all we have and with things that happened in the past I can take confidence from.”
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