Liverpool supporters will have to wait a little longer before seeing their team back in action this month.

The Reds have had a March to forget after being knocked out of the Champions League and having lost the Carabao Cup final.

In some respects, fans and players alike will have been pleased to see the international break arrive when it did.



It gave everyone connected with Liverpool a little break from a disappointing week.

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With the Liverpool squad now returning, though, full focus should be on wrapping up the Premier League title as soon as possible.

Another step towards the title can be taken on Wednesday, when Liverpool face Everton in the second Merseyside Derby of the season.

And as Arne Slot considers the shape his players are returning in ahead of the game, he should surely be looking at Federico Chiesa as a potential key player in Wednesday’s clash.

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Rewind back to March 16th at Wembley and the Liverpool players emerging with any credit in the bank were seriously few and far between.

However, Chiesa proved a point to Slot in the Carabao Cup final.

Chiesa has been called ‘dangerous‘ by Diogo Jota and that’s exactly what he looked against Newcastle.

On the back of that eye-catching cameo, the 27-year-old has had the last two weeks off after failing to be called up for the Italy national team.

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With all five of Liverpool’s other forwards away on duty – and two of them taking in taxing trips to South America – Chiesa should now be at the forefront of Slot’s thinking for Everton.

Not all of the past two weeks will have been spent at the Liverpool training ground.

But with Chiesa close at hand, he has hopefully been able to at least put himself in Slot’s thinking and show that he can be counted on for this type of game.

On the whole it was a positive international break for Liverpool.

But we think that his freshness, as well as the recent memory of his display at Wembley, still make him the real winner of the international break for Liverpool.

In reality, nothing may now be enough to keep Chiesa from leaving Anfield this summer.
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