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Roma prepare for Liverpool's red-hot 54,000 crowd at Anfield with pre-Champions League training session at tiny local leisure centre... which costs just £75 to hire the pitch for an hour!

Just a few hours before they step out at Anfield in front of 54,000 fanatical supporters, Roma moved out of the limelight to train at a tiny local leisure centre in Liverpool.

Regulars at the Lifestyles Walton Sports and Leisure Centre may have been surprised to see some footballing megastars when they turned up for the 10am Step Aerobics class on Tuesday morning.

Edin Dzeko, Daniele De Rossi and Co are in the city ahead of their Champions League semi-final, and rather than training at a huge complex, they instead opted for a small centre just 1.