Alexander Isak is set to return for Liverpool against Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday night after nearly four months out.
The Sweden international travelled with the squad to Paris for the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final after resuming full training last week.
Isak has not featured since December 20, when he scored in the 2-1 win at Tottenham Hotspur before suffering a broken ankle and fractured leg.
Head coach Arne Slot confirmed at Parc des Princes on Tuesday that the £125m striker will be involved.
The club’s record signing has scored three goals since joining from Newcastle United on September 1.
He returns to a Liverpool side low on confidence following a heavy FA Cup defeat to Manchester City, after which captain Virgil van Dijk admitted the team “gave up” at one stage.
Head coach Arne Slot told reporters: “[Isak] finished close to a week of team training sessions now, so he can play a part. Otherwise, I wouldn’t take him.
“I decided not to take him to the Etihad because we felt in talks with the player, medical, performance staff that he wasn’t able to get a performance out of him yet.
“And since he’s with us now, we do think that we can get a performance out of him now. But not to start – that [would] be clear.”
Slot added: “Sometimes in a game of football, you want to do things in a certain way but you’re not able to for various reasons, but one of them can definitely be conceding goals when you think you’re playing well and in the game. Usually in football, moments that hurt you most are just before half-time and just after.
“So, you go in at half-time, for large spells of the game feeling you went toe-to-toe with City but then you are 2-0 down.
Then immediately after half-time you concede the 3-0, then five minutes in between – and we had two big chances from Mo [Salah], by the way – where it was too open, players were struggling.
“The good thing for us was that after the 4-0, City seemed to be OK with the 4-0 and we had the ball and constant ball possession but were not able to create that much anymore.
“I didn’t see players giving up in that part of the game, but I think it is also good from captain that he has a strong and firm reaction after a game like that and hopefully it’s not only immediately after the game, but we can – as a team – show a strong and firm reaction tomorrow evening.”
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