Simon Mignolet and Dejan Lovren have recovered from injury and are available for Liverpool's home clash with Leicester City on Boxing Day after missing last Sunday's 3-0 defeat by Watford.
But Jurgen Klopp will again be without James Milner for the visit of Premier League leaders, along with Martin Skrtel, who tore his hamstring in the defeat at Vicarage Road.
Skrtel said this week that he expects to be ruled out for six weeks, while Milner missed the Watford match with a calf injury and is still receiving treatment.
Klopp said he won't allow injuries to be an excuse as he seeks to turn around Liverpool's dip in form.
"Martin is now missing and that is not perfect but it is not our place to complain about this. It's a hamstring with a little bit of the tendon involved, so he needs time," Klopp said.
"We don't know how long because Martin is a tough guy and usually he recovers quickly, but we can't put pressure on this so we have to wait. It's a few weeks, for sure -- it's really bad for us.
"Dejan Lovren is back in training. He's trained now for two days in a row completely normally with the team. He is available for Saturday.
"Simon is back and trained normally today and will train normally tomorrow.
"[Milner has] no chance. Millie has a calf injury and nobody knows where it came from, it was not in a game. Now we have to wait. One or two weeks, I don't know exactly. That is not too good for us, either."
The manager added that Daniel Sturridge and Jordan Rossiter, too, needed time for their respective hamstring problems to heal.
In Sturridge's case, this meant building up the England striker's strength in the hope that he can put a nightmare spell of fitness troubles behind him.
"Daniel is still doing his little 'preseason' -- in a good way," Klopp said. "It's intensive training with him but we will do this for seven, eight, nine, 10 days with him and then we will see."
Rossiter suffered his injury in the early stages of the Europa League fixture away to FC Sion, and Klopp said: "That's really bad for him and for us too. He felt it after five minutes in the game. It is disappointing for him and that needs time too, a really long time."
Skrtel's injury is bad news defensively as Liverpool have shipped seven goals in their last three league matches, two apiece to Newcastle and West Brom and three at Watford -- the first inside three minutes -- last weekend.