LIVERPOOL -- Lucas Leiva and Steven Gerrard are both ready to return when Liverpool host Queens Park Rangers in the Premier League on Saturday.
Brazil international Lucas, 28, has missed the Reds' last three matches with a thigh injury sustained in training shortly before their FA Cup semifinal defeat against Aston Villa.
Club captain Gerrard, 34, was rested for Tuesday's 1-0 Premier League defeat at Hull after playing the full 90 minutes of the previous Saturday's 0-0 draw at West Brom.
Full-back Alberto Moreno is back in training after recovering from the minor knock that kept him out of Tuesday's game.
Mario Balotelli, though, will be missing because of the foot injury that forced him off at Hull.
"Lucas will be available," Rodgers said at his news conference on Friday. "Mario -- no. Moreno, we'll see after today.
"With Steven, it was clear that playing on Saturday and Tuesday was always going to be difficult, but having had a good week's preparation, he'll be fit and flying for the weekend.
"He's approaching every game giving his maximum. His concentration has never waned. He's clearly focused on helping the team. He'll be exactly the same tomorrow."
Rodgers confirmed that full-back Jon Flanagan will not play again for between six and nine months after having surgery in London on a knee injury on Tuesday.
Flanagan has missed the entire season with the problem, which he sustained on the club's preseason tour of the United States.
Rodgers said: "He's been a big miss for us. He's the one player who's never been mentioned throughout the season in terms of absences.
"People have looked at us in terms of goals, people who have left the club and people who have been unfit, but he's been a huge miss for us because in the second half of last season, when he got into the team, he was arguably the best full-back in the league.
"He was absolutely outstanding. He went from being a young player on the fringes to nearly going to the World Cup.
"Jon fought back, having been out for a long time, but the issue he's had was such that if he didn't have the operation, it was only going to delay things.
"He's a really strong character, Jon. He trained for a few days last week and looked absolutely brilliant. I was asking the medics if it's something he definitely needs.
"But for him and his career, he definitely needed the operation. Now he's had that, he'll recover over the next six to nine months, and we hope we can get him back fitter and stronger than ever, because he's a really important player for us."
Rodgers also confirmed that Daniel Sturridge has travelled to the United States to assess whether he will require surgery on his hip injury.