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Liverpool suffered fresh injury fears for Danny Ings after the striker was taken off with a problem in his latest comeback game with the Under-23s.

The 25-year-old was replaced after around 35 minutes of the game against Manchester City at Prenton Park on Sunday afternoon.

Ings had been heavily involved in the action and could have scored a couple of goals in the first half hour, though he had also gone down under a couple of tough challenges.

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He looked to have coped with those but it was after he volleyed a chance over the bar on 32 minutes that he approached the touchline and appeared to suggest he couldn't continue.

Ings stayed on the edge of the pitch as he awaited the ball to go dead to make the change - Yan Dhanda coming on - hopefully suggesting it wasn't anything which might need immediate treatment.

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The ill-fated striker has endured an injury nightmare since his switch from Burnley in 2015, and has missed most of the last two years with knee problems after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament in training in Jurgen Klopp's first week as Reds boss.

Last year's promising comeback was stopped in its tracks by another injury sustained in the EFL Cup against Spurs.

He was progressing towards another return to the Liverpool first team, with hopes high that he could feature in some way against Leicester in the Carabao Cup, but that may now be in jeopardy.