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title: "Liverpool: Fabinho should be fit for Champions League final"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/liverpool-team-news-chelsea-real-madrid-fabinho-fit-for-champions-league-fa-cup-jurgen-klopp/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "David Comerford"
section: "Liverpool News"
published: "2022-05-13T16:40:04Z"
modified: "2022-05-13T16:40:04Z"
---

# Liverpool: Fabinho should be fit for Champions League final

**[Liverpool](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/liverpool-fc-news/) midfielder Fabinho is expected to win his battle to be fit for the Champions League final, [The Daily Mirror’s David Maddock reports](https://twitter.com/MaddockMirror/status/1524781515346944002?s=20&t=F_38C5uvu5SIjlEkqxaO1A).**

### The lowdown

Fabinho was forced off half an hour into Liverpool’s 2-1 [Premier League](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/premier-league-news/) victory over Aston Villa on Tuesday night with an [apparent hamstring injury](https://www.90min.com/posts/fabinho-limps-off-with-hamstring-injury-against-aston-villa).

It’s since been confirmed that the 28-year-old will miss Saturday’s FA Cup final against Chelsea, as well as the Reds’ remaining league games against Southampton and Wolves.

That means that the no. 3 faces a race to be fit for the meeting with Real Madrid in Paris at the end of the month.

[Latest Liverpool transfer news!](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/web-stories/latest-liverpool-transfer-news-32/)

### The latest

Maddock, northern football correspondent for the paper, shared the ‘[big news](https://twitter.com/MaddockMirror/status/1524781515346944002?s=20&t=F_38C5uvu5SIjlEkqxaO1A)‘ on Fabinho on Thursday evening.

The Brazilian ‘[should be fit for the Champions League final](https://twitter.com/MaddockMirror/status/1524781515346944002?s=20&t=F_38C5uvu5SIjlEkqxaO1A)‘, he wrote, news which has now been [confirmed](https://twitter.com/JamesPearceLFC/status/1525067658768564224) by Jurgen Klopp himself.

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### The verdict

This would be a significant boost for Klopp and Liverpool. Fabinho is typically one of the first names on the team-sheet, [starting 26](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/fabinho/leistungsdaten/spieler/225693) of the 30 Premier League games for which he’s been available.

What’s more, Klopp has previously hailed him as ‘[the best](https://www.si.com/soccer/liverpool/match-coverage/klopp-fabinho-best-in-the-world)‘ defensive midfielder on the planet.

And with Fabinho on the pitch, Liverpool are outscoring the opposition by an average of [1.7 goals per 90 minutes](https://fbref.com/en/players/7f3b388c/Fabinho).

Injury played a part last time Liverpool faced Real Madrid in the UCL showpiece, [with top goalscorer Mohamed Salah forced off in the first half](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44258022), and they won’t want it to be a factor this time around.

**In other news, [there’s been a ‘major development’ in the Aurelien Tchouameni race](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/liverpool-fc-news/liverpool-aurelien-tchouameni-transfer-gossip-3/).**