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Liverpool will go head-to-head with Everton this weekend and if spirits weren’t high enough in the Reds camp after the 5-0 demolition of Watford on Wednesday, Jurgen Klopp has announced that Roberto Firmino may be in contention.
The Brazilian missed out against the Hornets due to an injury he suffered in the stalemate with Manchester United and Sadio Mane deputised up front, with Divock Origi occupying Mane’s left-wing spot.
Both stepped up in the 27-year-old’s absence, with the Senegalese netting a tasty brace and the Belgian scoring a well-worked low drive as the Reds ruthlessly ripped their visitors to shreds.
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Last season Firmino was perhaps more essential to the Anfield outfit’s success than Mohamed Salah, purely because the team just doesn’t seem to click when he isn’t in it; Wednesday proved this is perhaps no longer the case and, if anything, Liverpool were better off without the former Hoffenheim man.
It would be almost unthinkable for Klopp not to bring the number 9 back in but after Origi’s impressive midweek display lots of Liverpool fans on Twitter aren’t too keen on the idea of dropping the versatile forward in favour of restoring Firmino in the starting XI…