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Belgian talent Origi confirmed to stay with Lille until end of season

Xinhua, January 21, 2015 Adjust font size:

Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has confirmed Belgian international forward Divock Origi will stay at Lille until the end of the season, announced Ligue 1 website on Tuesday.

"He will stay at Lille. There were discussions between the two clubs, but nothing more," the official website of the French top flight soccer league quoted Rodgers as saying.

The Reds signed Origi last summer before loaning him back to Lille for the 2014-2015 campaign.

During a crucial World Cup match in Brazil last June, Origi scored the only goal to help Belgium breezed past Russia 1-0 and became the youngest scorer of that World Cup as well as his country's youngest scorer in World Cup history.

The 19-year-old is now Lille's top scorer in Ligue 1 after pocketing three goals in 17 games this season. His French side sits now on the 12th with seven wins, six draws and eight defeats from 21 rounds of league games.

With Liverpool struggling for goals in the absence of the injured Daniel Sturridge, Rodgers considered attempting to bring forward Origi's arrival. Endite