Liverpool management expect Luis Diaz will return to full-scale training next week.
Diaz hasn't featured for the Reds since limping off at Arsenal in October with a knee injury that later required surgery having been aggravated at the warm weather training camp in Dubai two months later.
The winger has been stepping up his rehabilitation at the AXA Training Centre in recent weeks and was last Tuesday spotted running on the grass as the remainder of the squad were put through their paces ahead of the Champions League clash at Real Madrid the following day.
Now Diaz is being primed for a return to full team training when the majority of the squad are back at Kirkby at the start of next week ahead of the final two months of the Premier League season, says the Liverpool Echo.
Those players not on duty for their national teams during the current international break have been permitted time away from the training ground while undergoing own individual fitness programmes, as is usually the case with Jurgen Klopp's squad.