"Quite optimistic..." - Liverpool have been handed big injury boost before Chelsea clash

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The Reds are looking to book a place in the quarter-finals on Wednesday night, with Andoni Iraola previewing another showdown with good friend Xabi Alonso: “I think we’ve done already, I don’t know, maybe 25 interviews talking about our relationship, and I can talk again. But I think in this moment everyone knows that we were close friends, we grew up together, we played in the same team.

“But now he’s the opposition and we want to beat him – and the same way he will do with us. But he’s a very good friend and I wish him all the best, definitely.” Speaking to the media, Iraola also provided a positive fitness update on Wirtz, as well as the latest on Dominik Szoboszlai and Victor Munoz, with the German having a good chance of facing Chelsea: “I don’t think I can help you a lot.

We still have to wait, we train later. I don’t want to say no, but I think it’s going to be more difficult than Florian, yes.” Should Florian Wirtz start for Liverpool vs.