Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has confirmed that Jordan Henderson will be fit for Sunday's Premier League clash with Tottenham Hotspur, but James Milner is out.
Captain Henderson was absent from the Champions League win over Napoli with a knock to the knee, and Milner was a casualty of that Group A clash.
The 36-year-old was taken off with a head injury after 48 minutes of the meeting with Luciano Spalletti's side, and concussion protocols mean that he will not be available for Sunday.
Giving an injury update to reporters in his pre-game press conference, Klopp said of Henderson: "So, Hendo, yes, he's available. He trained yesterday completely normal so should be fine. He had a little thing but serious enough to not be involved in the last game."
However, Liverpool will be forced to adhere to the concussion protocol with Milner, who will miss out here but ought to be back in full team training by Tuesday barring any setbacks.
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"When you go through a concussion protocol you are not available for the next game because you have to go through different stages," Klopp said when asked about Milner.
"So, he is fine but still that's how it is [and] rightly so. We have to go to different stages and that means he is available for non-contact training on Monday and full contact training on Tuesday if everything goes well. Until then that's what we expect because he was yesterday already good.
"It's difficult, you need two sources, the doctor and the patient. It was clear. In the dressing room, I spoke to him and he was 100% okay, but then coming out into the floodlights, he realised and we took him off obviously.
"We've come a long way from when they used to say 'he's got a head knock, he doesn't know who he is!' 'Tell him he's Pele and send him back on!' A good joke but we've come a long way since that."
Milner is joined in the treatment room by Joel Matip, Luis Diaz, Naby Keita, Diogo Jota and Arthur Melo as Liverpool aim to return to winning ways in the Premier League following last weekend's loss to Leeds United.
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Klopp has admitted that he "could not have felt worse" after watching Crysencio Summerville win the game for the Whites last weekend, but he got the reaction he wanted from his players against Napoli.
"After Leeds I couldn't have felt worse, but then you beat a team in form and that gives you a lift. It is normal," Klopp added. "We didn't concede a goal in that game by an armpit, it is margins.
"That is how it is. Napoli are making things look easy right now; the challenge was to deny them and we did that. We did that, now we have to do it again and again and again. It is a different game.
"Napoli is an offensive team, it is not clear how Tottenham will get into this game. When they chased the game, it was an obvious change of approach. Before that, it was well organised and defensive. We have to expect both."
Liverpool find themselves ninth in the Premier League table on 16 points ahead of the weekend's fixtures - six places and 10 points worse off than Tottenham, who have played a game more.
Ben Knapton
