• Defender could make comeback on Thursday
  • Joe Gomez also close to ending long-term absence

The Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk could make his return to action this week after nine months out with a serious knee injury. The Netherlands captain has been out since undergoing surgery on the anterior cruciate ligament in his right leg after a clash with Everton’s Jordan Pickford in October’s Merseyside derby.
Van Dijk has sat out the first three training games at the club’s camp in Austria but is in line for a short cameo against Hertha Berlin on Thursday.
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