Six players could miss Liverpool vs Everton after double injury return and international concerns Liverpool vs Everton injury news and return dates ahead of the Merseyside derby

Everton manager David Moyes and Liverpool head coach Arne Slot on the sidelines during this season’s first Merseyside derby

-Everton and Liverpool will lock horns once again on Wednesday evening as the two teams return to action after the international break. The Merseyside derby at Anfield is the standout fixture as the Premier League gets back underway for the run-in following a two-week break.

League leaders Liverpool will be desperate to win after a difficult week saw them lose to Paris Saint-Germain and exit the Champions League before a Carabao Cup final loss to Newcastle United ahead of the internationals. Everton, meanwhile, will travel to Anfield looking to play spoilers once more having netted a 97th-minute equaliser to earn a 2-2 draw when the teams met at Goodison last month.

And the Toffees have been boosted by the return of Iliman Ndiaye and Dwight McNeil as the pair of attackers trained on Friday following injury lay-offs.

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Ndiaye had scored in wins over Tottenham Hotspur and Brighton & Hove Albion before limping off midway through the first half of the final Merseyside derby at Goodison Park. Scans confirmed he suffered medial ligament damage.

Meanwhile, McNeil hasn’t played since a 4-0 victory over Wolves back in December, in which he aggravated a knee injury that had saw him miss a number of matches earlier in the season.

Striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin will remain sidelined for Everton and the Blues will be sweating over the fitness of left-back Vitalii Mykolenko, who suffered a thigh problem while on international duty with Ukraine this week.

Liverpool will be assessing internationals of their own when they return to the AXA. Alisson Becker was substituted after a suspected concussion suffered while playing for Brazil against Colombia, although the goalkeeper would later confirm on social media he was doing fine.

Brazil’s national team doctor, Rodrigo Lasmar, said: “Becker suffered a trauma to the head region, he was replaced by a suspected concussion. Now we will do all the CBF protocol, it will undergo recommended imaging tests, a computed tomography, then a resonance with diffusion. If all the tests are normal, we’ll follow up and do a cognitive test. And then we will evaluate the player.