Liverpool fans will be keeping their fingers crossed that 18 players heading off on international duty this week return without injury.

We have three representatives in Roy Hodgson's England squad as they ready themselves for World Cup qualifiers against San Marino and Poland - Steven Gerrard, Glen Johnson and potential debutant Jonjo Shelvey.

Fabio Borini will be on call for both Italy seniors and U21s. The former face Armenia and Denmark in World Cup qualifiers - the latter have a two-legged play-off against Sweden to navigate if they want to play in the next U21 Euros.

As well as a potential clash with Borini, Daniel Agger's Denmark also face a trip to Bulgaria, while Martin Skrtel should feature for Slovakia in their qualifiers against Latvia and Greece.

Spain face Belarus and France in their bid to reach the 2014 World Cup finals, and Pepe Reina is with them as usual.

Sebastian Coates and Luis Suarez will make the long trip to South America for qualifiers against Bolivia and Argentina, while Nuri Sahin is in the Turkey party for competitive games against Romania and Hungary.

Joe Allen faces a battle of Britain as Wales attempt to overcome Scotland and then Croatia, while Brad Jones is in the Australia squad to face Iraq as the sides continue their quest to reach Brazil in two years' time.

Oussama Assaidi could feature for Morocco against Mozambique in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.

Jordan Henderson, Andre Wisdom and Raheem Sterling are with England U21s for their two-legged Euro 2013 play-off with Serbia, while Samid Yesil will compete for Germany U19s in Euro qualifiers versus Macedonia, Luxembourg and Ireland.

Also in U19 action is Ryan McLaughlin with Northern Ireland, whose qualifiers are against Greece, Czech Republic and Moldova.

Danny Wilson (Scotland U21s) and Peter Gulacsi (Hungary U21s) are on standby.

Stay logged onto Liverpoolfc.com for details of how our players perform in all of these games.