Possible line-ups


Liverpool: Allison; Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Van Dijk, Milner; Fabinho, Henderson, Wijnaldum; Salah, Firmino, Mané
Out: Robertson (suspended), Gomez (leg), Oxlade-Chamberlain (muscular)
Doubtful: Lallana (muscular)
Misses next game if booked: none

Porto: Casillas; Maxi, Felipe, Militão, Alex Telles; Danilo, Otávio, Corona; Brahimi, Marega, Soares
Out: Herrera (suspended), Pepe (suspended)
Doubtful: Alex Telles (hip)
Misses next game if booked: Éder Militão, Danilo, Otávio

Key battle
Jordan Henderson v Danilo: This is one of three key battles picked out by Liverpool’s website following Henderson’s superb substitute cameo against Southampton. With James Milner likely deployed as a replacement left-back, Henderson’s industry in central midfield will be especially important if the Reds are to take charge of possession as they would expect to at Anfield.

Form guide
Liverpool
Last game: Southampton 1-3 Liverpool (Friday)
Form: WWWWWDWDDW

Naby Keita buried his first Liverpool goal and Mohamed Salah ended an eight-game scoring drought as the Reds came from behind to win on the south coast.
Porto
Last game: Porto 2-0 Boavista (Friday)
Form: WDWWWWLWWW

Francisco Soares struck his 13th league goal of the campaign, and third in two games, as Porto registered a 21st Liga victory in 27 matches this season.

Jürgen Klopp, Liverpool coach
It’s warm outside, spring is coming and we are in two big competitions, so it’s fine. We have not finished the season, we have not finished our development. We want to write a few proper things on the pages of that season book. We are on fire, to be honest.


In training you can see we are in an extremely good moment, but so are other teams as well, and we all play for a lot. You will see tomorrow that Porto also really want to go through so it will be a tough one but that’s how it should be.

Sérgio Conceição, Porto coach
Liverpool are on a very high level. Every week they have a very high level of competition. With us it’s not like that, no disrespect to the other teams [in Portugal].

Recognising the power of the opponent, our absences and that we are in the first leg of the quarter-finals, we have to be smart and creative in terms of strategy. No one wanted to draw Liverpool but we are all ambitious.