Crystal Palace forward Christian Benteke is preparing to head north to Merseyside tomorrow where he will face his former club Liverpool having spent the past four-and-a-half months sidelined by injury.
Now, however, he's back, preparing for a huge challenge against Jurgen Klopp's men. Having played in red and blue on the Selhurst turf for the first time last Saturday since leaving the field on September 1st, the Belgian forward is brimming to have returned.
But the journey has been a long one behind often closed doors.
Explaining what happened as the season began to stretch into action, Benteke said, "I had a cyst around my meniscus and a small part of meniscus needed to be removed.