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Jurgen Klopp is confident James Milner will be fit for the Champions League final despite the Liverpool midfielder's absence from today's clash with Brighton and Hove Albion.

Milner wasn't even on the bench as the teamsheet dropped for the Anfield clash, with the Reds requiring a point to secure a top-four berth ahead of Chelsea.

The 32-year-old, who had been in the matchday squad for every single previous Liverpool game this season, picked up an injury during last week's 1-0 loss at Stamford Bridge but carried on playing.

His place today will be taken by Dominic Solanke with Klopp considering a change in formation.

And of Milner, the Reds boss said: “It’s a little injury. It’s serious enough to put him out for today; he couldn’t train the whole week.

“We hope it will work out. But we had to accept it and we had to think about solutions. That’s the solution: Dom is in the team. Now we can go.”

There was better injury news with Adam Lallana on the bench having being absent since suffering a hamstring problem at Crystal Palace on March 31.

“Good, of course,” said Klopp. “An important option for us.

“How long, I don’t know – we have to see what’s possible. But he trained completely normally, and that’s of course good for us in these times.”