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Fit-again Emre Can targeting return to Liverpool starting XI

Emre Can is desperate to win his place back in the Liverpool side after recovering from injury.

Can, 22, has watched the Reds make a flying start to the Premier League season, winning five of their seven fixtures, and although he has enjoyed watching from the sidelines he wants to play a part too.

"I am a very, very bad watcher!" he told Liverpool's official website. "Of course I'm always happy when my team wins, but it's always different when you play.

"I have to work hard. I have to get fitness back. If I get game time -- which is always different to training -- I have to work hard on my game and get confidence again.

"That's very important for me. I haven't played so many minutes this season but of course my target is to play a lot of minutes again.

"It is always better to play and be on the pitch. For me, it has been a little bit unlucky so far this season because I came back a little bit late and had a very short break after the Euros.

"Then I came back and got an injury. The team did very well and then I came back and it was not easy to get back into the team.

"Now I have to continue the work, I have to work hard. And I am confident enough that if I am ready and fit, I will play one day."