MatchLiverpool v Accrington Stanley: FA Cup team news

The pair have provided head coach Arne Slot a squad boost ahead of the 12.15pm GMT kick-off at Anfield on Saturday in the third round.

Szoboszlai, who has missed the Reds' last three outings - due to illness against Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur, following a suspension for the trip to West Ham United - has returned to training.

In the midweek Carabao Cup tie at Spurs, Quansah was an early withdrawal as he also dealt with sickness, but the defender is expected to be fit to face League Two outfit Stanley.

Slot told reporters on Friday: "Dom trained with the U21s yesterday. Jarell, like I said, he was a bit ill last week. As a result of that I had to take him off during the game, but I'm expecting him to be available."

Joe Gomez, therefore, is the only confirmed absentee for the Reds as he continues his recovery from a hamstring injury picked up at West Ham last month.

Slot was also quizzed over whether he may rotate his team for the cup contest in L4 and specifically if youngsters Rio Ngumoha and Trey Nyoni are in his thoughts.

"We still have to train," he added. "We couldn't yesterday because our flight coming back from London arrived quite late here, so we gave them a day off as a result of that.

"So we have to wait and see how everybody is recovered today and then we have to make a decision which players we are going to bring to the game.

"But Trey has been in the squad many times already. I think Rio only once, Southampton away. But these players are doing really well when they train with us, doing really well when they play with the U21s. So as long as they keep doing that, their chances of getting their moment in the first team will increase of course."

Accrington, meanwhile, have a full squad to choose from for the fixture, which is just the second between the clubs in competitive action.

"Everyone is fit, which is amazing. So, happy days!" manager John Doolan told his pre-match press conference.

On how he will choose his starting XI for the match, he added: "I want to play! It's difficult, but at the end of the day me and Ged Brannan [assistant manager] will pick a team and it can't be picked on sentiment.

"It has got to be picked on lads training well and lads when they get the shirt, keeping the shirt and doing the job. But that's a bridge we'll have to cross."

He continued: "I want them to enjoy the occasion and take everything in. These are the things you have to remember when you go there. It might never, ever happen again for these lads. It might never, ever happen again for the club.

"But the thing about it is that you do have to go and enjoy it, but we want to go there and give a good account of ourselves as a team, as individuals, as staff, as a club and as supporters. We want to do that and we want to do it right.

"Ultimately, we're a professional club, so we want to try to get ourselves in the next round. We know how big the task is. They might have an off day, we might have an unbelievable day and Lady Luck is with us. You just never know. It's the magic of the cup."

Last match

Tottenham 1-0 Liverpool (January 8): Alisson, Bradley, Quansah, Van Dijk, Tsimikas, Mac Allister, Gravenberch, Salah, Jones, Gakpo, Jota.

Colchester United 0-2 Accrington (January 4): Crellin, Love, Rawson, Awe, B. Woods, Martin, Khumbeni, J. Woods, Hunter, Whalley, Walton.