A familiar face of Sadio Mane was snapped in the Liverpool FC first-team training session on Friday as Jurgen Klopp’s men gear up to host table-toppers Manchester City on Sunday.
The Senegalese international forward had missed the last two Premier League outings for Liverpool FC owing to injury concerns but was seen partaking in training drills alongside his teammates heading into the weekend’s must-win game, judging by reports from the club’s official website.
Mane’s absence had a telling impact on the attacking endeavours of Jurgen Klopp’s Merseyside men in the last top-flight fixture for the Reds, which ended in a shock 1-0 defeat to relegation favourites Brighton.
In his pre-match press conference leading up to the crunch league game for his side, Klopp had voiced optimism over Mane’s return to the fold at Anfield when quizzed upon his star forward’s injury situation.
Should the former Southampton man be in the mix to start the weekend clash against Pep Guardiola’s high-flying side, Xherdan Shaqiri’s prolonged stretch of first-team football looks highly likely to reach a conclusion.
