Glen Johnson hopes to join up with his Liverpool Football Club pals in training in three months.

The England defender has been sidelined with a knee injury picked up against Aston Villa on December 29, but he aims to be back in Rafael Benitez’s plans in March.

"It's been frustrating. The worst thing for a footballer is being injured, but now I'm looking forward," Johnson told the club's official website. "But I'm definitely over the worst of it now.

“I'm about two or three weeks away from training, so I'm getting there. It's been like groundhog day - I've been doing the same things, working in the gym and doing stability work.

"Every day has been the same for the last two weeks, but now I've started to run, things can change. I don't expect to walk back into the side and play, but I am doing everything I can.”

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