Before its anticipated match with Chelsea in the League Cup final, Liverpool is looking forward to strengthening its position at the top of the English Premier League standings. Liverpool will meet its guest Luton Town on Wednesday in the opening of the 26th round matches of the English Premier League at Anfield Stadium, where the League decided to hold the match earlier than the rest of the stage matches to allow the Red Team the opportunity to prepare to meet Chelsea in the League Cup Final, at the ancient Wembley Stadium. In the British capital, London, next Sunday. On the other hand, Chelsea's match with its guest Tottenham Hotspur in the same stage of the league championship, which was scheduled to be held at Stamford Bridge, the stronghold of the Blue Team, was postponed until a later time. Liverpool, which is at the top with 57 points, is seeking to obtain the three points in order to maintain its top spot in the tournament standings, which it lost its title in the last three seasons. After his brilliance during Liverpool's 4-1 victory over Brentford in the last stage, it is expected that Egyptian international star Mohamed Salah will be used in the team's main roster against Luton Town, after confirming his recovery from the injury he recently suffered that kept him away from the green rectangle for quite a while. Salah suffered a muscle injury while he was with his country's national team in the African Cup of Nations finals, which were held in Côte d'Ivoire recently, causing him to miss Liverpool in a number of matches, before returning against Brentford last Saturday. After 47 days of absence, Salah returned to play against Brentford, where he was on the bench at the beginning of the match, before German coach Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool's coach, brought him on in the 44th minute of the match, instead of his injured Portuguese teammate Diogo Jota. During the 46 minutes he played in the match, Salah played the starring role, after setting up a goal for his Argentine teammate Alexis McAllister, before scoring another goal, consolidating his position in second place on the list of top scorers in the English Premier League this season, after raising his tally to 15 goals, behind Norwegian Erling. Haaland, Manchester City striker (leader). The Egyptian Pharaoh also contributed the most to scoring goals in the tournament this season, with 24 goals, after providing 9 decisive passes to his teammates, in addition to the 15 goals he scored. Despite this, Klopp may decide to keep the captain of the Pharaohs team on the bench at the beginning of the match, provided that he is used according to the match’s data, especially in light of the coach’s desire to give him more time to prepare for the match against Chelsea, during which the team aspires to win its first title during the current season. . If he participates in the match, Salah will look to add Luton Town to his list of victims in English stadiums, after he was unable to visit his goal in the only meeting between the two teams that took place in the English Premier League. In his career in the English Premier League, which began in early 2014 with his former team Chelsea, Mohamed Salah has faced 31 clubs so far, managing to visit the net of 27 of them, while failing to score against 4 teams: Luton Town, Sunderland, and Swansea City, as well as Liverpool, which... He played against him in the jersey of the London team, which he left in early 2015. Liverpool fears surprises from Luton Town, which is in 18th place (third from the bottom) with 20 points, and which is spending its first season in the English Premier League, especially after it caused the loss of two valuable points in the match. The march of Mohamed Salah’s teammates against the first two teams in the competition, which ended in a 1-1 draw three and a half months ago.During its 24 matches in the tournament so far, Luton Town has defeated a number of well-established clubs in the competition, such as Everton, Crystal Palace and Newcastle United, in addition to Sheffield United and Brighton. Luton Town hopes to emerge with a positive result from Liverpool Stadium despite the difficulty of the task, especially since it has achieved only one win in its last six matches in the tournament.