Rafa Benitez is keeping his fingers crossed that Fernando Torres suffers no reaction to his foot injury picked up at the weekend.
Liverpool face Manchester United on Easter Sunday, whilst Arsenal take on Chelsea on the same day, and Benitez is anxious that his top striker is fit for the game.
Torres picked up a foot injury in the first half against Reading but managed to battle through and Benitez is hoping he shakes off the knock.
Benitez has also denied that the side are becoming over reliant on the striker whose goal against Reading was his ninth in his last six games.
He told Daily Post: "We are not too reliant on Torres. People were asking why do you change, why do you rotate? You do it to try to keep the players fresh and clear of injury.
"So now when you have one week, or three or four days in this case, you can use the players.
"But you must be thinking about the next games and three games in six days or six games in 16 days, all of them with very high tempo and demanding a lot physically from the players. We need to think about each game.
"We have also Kuyt, Crouch and Voronin, three strikers who can score goals."
Liverpool face Manchester United on Easter Sunday, whilst Arsenal take on Chelsea on the same day, and Benitez is anxious that his top striker is fit for the game.
Torres picked up a foot injury in the first half against Reading but managed to battle through and Benitez is hoping he shakes off the knock.
Benitez has also denied that the side are becoming over reliant on the striker whose goal against Reading was his ninth in his last six games.
He told Daily Post: "We are not too reliant on Torres. People were asking why do you change, why do you rotate? You do it to try to keep the players fresh and clear of injury.
"So now when you have one week, or three or four days in this case, you can use the players.
"But you must be thinking about the next games and three games in six days or six games in 16 days, all of them with very high tempo and demanding a lot physically from the players. We need to think about each game.
"We have also Kuyt, Crouch and Voronin, three strikers who can score goals."
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