STOKE: Stoke City midfielders Joe Allen and Glenn Whelan are set to feature in today’s Premier League trip to 18th-placed Swansea, manager Mark Hughes said yesterday. Allen, Stoke’s joint top scorer with six goals, has been on the sidelines after suffering a hamstring strain in a 2-1 defeat to Liverpool earlier this month. Whelan missed the 2-1 victory over Hull City last weekend due to illness.

LIVERPOOL: Liverpool midfielder Lucas Leiva and defender Ragnar Klavan both trained yesterday to give manager Jurgen Klopp some hope of not having to field another untried centre-back partnership at home to Crystal Palace. The pair joined in their first session of the week following muscle and knee injuries but defender Joel Matip, former Schalke 04 player, also struggling with a muscle problem, missed out from the session.

GABRIEL JESUS: Gabriel Jesus could make a dramatic return for Manchester City in tomorrow’s FA Cup semi-final against Arsenal. The Brazil striker has been out for the past two months after undergoing surgery to repair a broken bone in his foot. Manager Pep Guardiola has confirmed the 20-year-old will travel to London with the squad and is in contention to play.

LIFE BAN: Former Costa Rican soccer federation president Eduardo Li was banned for life yesterday by FIFA’s ethics committee after he broke the global football governing body’s rules against bribery and corruption, the ethics panel said in a statement. Li was arrested in 2015 in an international corruption probe and has since pleaded guilty in US. federal court to racketeering and wire fraud.

THE CHAMPIONSHIP: Norwich City vs Brighton 2-0.