Dejan Lovren will start for Liverpool against former side Southampton at Anfield today, with fellow new addition, Javier Manquillo, who is on a two-year loan from Atletico Madrid, also in the starting XI.
The centre-back Lovren's fellow ex-Saint Rickie Lambert on the bench, while Adam Lallana is out with a knee injury.
Midfielder Emre Can, a £9.75m but from Bayer Leverkusen, has been named as one of the substitutes.
Ronaldo Koeman has given debuts to goalkeeper Fraser Forster, Dusan Tadic, Graziano Pelle and on-loan Chelsea defender Ryan Bertrand for Southampton.
Liverpool: Mignolet, Manquillo, Johnson, Skrtel, Lovren, Gerrard, Lucas, Henderson, Coutinho, Sterling, Sturridge.
Southampton: Forster, Clyne, Fonte, Yoshida, Bertrand, Wanyama, Schneiderlin, S. Davis, Ward-Prowse, Tadic, Pelle.
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