Liverpool get triple injury boost ahead of Inter clash

Liverpool trio Thiago Alcantara, Joel Matip and Roberto Firmino have all returned to training ahead of their Champions League last-16 second leg at home to Inter Milan.

Midfielder Alcantara and centre-back Matip will be in the squad after a thigh injury and illness respectively.

A late decision will be taken on Firmino, who has not played since the first meeting with the Italians in mid-February because of a groin injury.

The Merseysiders are in excellent form, with Brazilian Fabinho the perfect embodiment of the current confidence levels within the squad on the one-year anniversary of their last home defeat.

Exactly 12 months ago Jurgen Klopp's side lost to Fulham, their sixth successive home defeat of an injury-ravaged unsuccessful Premier League title defence.

They have not lost at Anfield in 28 subsequent matches - and have beaten only three times anywhere since then - and the first leg of an unprecedented quadruple has already been secured.

In winning the Carabao Cup at Wembley eight days ago Fabinho displayed the sort of impudence which was distinctly lacking last March with a cheeky dinked penalty in a shoot-out they won 11-10.

"The day before, I tried to do a Panenka. It was just me and Luis Diaz, with no goalkeeper in the goal," said the Brazil international ahead of the Champions League last-16 second leg visit of Inter Milan.

"I told him 'tomorrow if it goes to pens, I will shoot it like this'. He didn't believe me but when I was walking to the box to take the penalty, it was in my mind to shoot a Panenka. It worked.

"When you shoot a penalty like this, you know that if you miss, when you come back to the dressing room everyone will kill you.

"But it was in my mind that I would take it like this, and that I could do