Liverpool leave 18 players out of Sparta Prague Europe League squad as Mohamed Salah returns
Mohamed Salah has been included in Liverpool’s 23-man travelling squad for their Europa League round-of-16 first-leg clash with Sparta Prague.
The Egyptian has missed 12 of the Reds' last 13 matches after suffering a hamstring injury while away on Africa Cup of Nations duty in January. He returned for Liverpool away at Brentford last month, scoring and assisting in a 4-1 win after coming on as substitute, only to aggravate the issue and be sidelined once more.
Salah has missed the Reds’ last four games as a result, including the League Cup final win over Chelsea. But after taking part in open training on Wednesday, he has been named in the travelling squad for Liverpool’s opening meeting with Sparta Prague.
The 31-year-old's return is timely ahead of the Reds’ top-of-the-table Premier League clash with Manchester City on Sunday at Anfield.. But while he bolsters Jurgen Klopp’s options, following on from Dominik Szoboszlai, Darwin Nunez, Wataru Endo and Andy Robertson’s own returns from injury and illness against Nottingham Forest last weekend, Liverpool are still left without a number of players.
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Jayden Danns has been left out of the travelling squad after suffering from a concussion, and is one of 11 players to miss the trip through injury. This includes teenage left-back Calum Scanlon, who has suffered a minor foot fracture.
Meanwhile, despite taking part in open training on Wednesday, both Trey Nyoni and Amara Nallo have not travelled to Prague. The teenagers joined the Reds from Leicester City and West Ham United respectively in
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