Get your jokes ready, everyone, because Sunday starts with Liverpool vs. Southampton -- but please, do try to come up with something better than "Southampton vs. Southampton".
Liverpool vs. Southampton: Lineups
After all, Liverpool only swiped three players from Saints this summer, and only one starts: Dejan Lovren. Rickie Lambert is on the bench, while Adam Lallana is injured. The usual suspects start up top, with Raheem Sterling and Philippe Coutinho flanking Danny Sturridge. Brendan Rodgers has two right backs in his starting XI, so it's hard to say whether Glen Johnson or new boy Javier Manquillo will be the one played on the left.
Ronald Koeman, too, is handing out plenty of debuts, to go alongside his in the Southampton dugout. Fraser Forster debuts in goal, loanee Ryan Bertrand is in the back four, Dušan Tadić on the left and Graziano Pellè out wide.
Liverpool (4-3-3): Mignolet; Johnson, Lovren, Skrtel, Manquillo; Gerrard, Lucas, Henderson; Sterling, Sturridge, Coutinho
Subs: Jones, Toure, Sakho, Allen, Ibe, Can, Lambert
Southampton (4-2-3-1): Forster; Bertrand, Yoshida, Fonte, Clyne; Schneiderlin, Wanyama; Tadic, S. Davis, Ward-Prowse; Pellè
Subs: K. Davis, Long, Taïder, Cork, Hooiveld, Isgrove, Stephens.
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