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Mohamed Salah appeared to be absent as the Liverpool squad trained on Wednesday ahead of Friday's trip to Arsenal.

Manager Jurgen Klopp put his players through their paces ahead of the Friday night visit to the Emirates on Wednesday evening, but Salah appeared to miss the session.

The 20-goal Liverpool forward played 71 minutes of Sunday's 4-0 win over Bournemouth before being withdrawn for Adam Lallana.

Speaking after the 1-1 draw in the Merseyside derby earlier this month, Reds boss Klopp admitted that he was keen to protect £36.9m club-record signing ahead of what is a typically hectic festive period.

"I took Mo Salah off because he had a hamstring a little bit," said Klopp.

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"Then everyone said ‘how can you take him off?’ I do not go out and say ‘yeah, but he is close to being injured’.

"He is not at the moment, thank God.

"Seven games in 21 games before Everton and now six games in 18 days. It is exactly the same. We need the best quality we can have before each game. We cannot ignore the number of games."

Joel Matip and Daniel Sturridge were fit enough to train however after their respective absences of late.

Matip had expected to be sidelined until the New Year after picking up a thigh injury earlier this month, but the centre-back has made good progress and is in contention for a return in north London .

"Joel Matip was back in training yesterday," said Klopp on Wednesday.

"As always now we have a few little reactions from the last game so we need to wait a little bit for a few players.

"But at this moment, apart from Daniel Sturridge, who is a little ill - or was, even he could be back, I'm not sure - (it's only) the long-term."

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Lallana also trained after he continued his recovery from a four-month lay-off with a cameo against former club Bournemouth last weekend.

However, Klopp admitted left-back Alberto Moreno was still some way away from a comeback after his injury in the 7-0 hammering of Spartak Moscow earlier this month.

"Unfortunately Alberto is still not even on the pitch. It could still take quite a few weeks," he confirmed.