Liverpool fully fit for Switzerland trip

Gerard Houllier has a fully fit squad for Liverpool's Champions League clash with Basle tomorrow night.

Gerard Houllier has a fully fit squad for Liverpool's Champions League clash with Basle tomorrow night.

Liverpool know they have to win to progress to the last 16 - which means the full fitness of the likes of Steven Gerrard and Michael Owen are crucial.

Houllier is expected to field the same side that lost to Middlesbrough on Saturday - with Emile Heskey pushed up front alongside Owen.

Houllier, who will celebrate four years in control tomorrow, said: "There is no ambiguity about this game, we know we must win it.

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"It will be just like our game last season in the final match in the group stages when we had to beat Roma, and that's what we did.

Provisional squad: Dudek, Carragher, Hyypia, Traore, Riise, Murphy, Diao, Hamann, Gerrard, Heskey, Owen, Kirkland, Babbel, Baros, Diouf, Cheyrou, Biscan, Vignal, Berger, Smicer