KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Southampton match thread

Joe Allen replaces Raheem Sterling in the only change to the Liverpool line-up by Brendan Rodgers for the Barclays Premier League clash against Southampton on Saturday.


The Welshman starts a league fixture for the first time since suffering an injury in the 2-1 defeat by Chelsea on December 29.

Otherwise, the boss has selected exactly the same starting XI that dramatically downed Swansea City last Sunday.

The Reds' XI in full: Mignolet, Johnson, Agger, Skrtel, Flanagan, Gerrard, Allen, Henderson, Coutinho, Sturridge, Suarez.

Substitutes: Jones, Toure, Cissokho, Moses, Aspas, Sterling, Teixeira.

Click here to follow all of the action from St Mary's with our live minute-by-minute updates and accompanying audio commentary.

good call about allen for sterling. think we could do with a exra man in he middle

Yep, the battle will be on the midfield

Big call, bit harsh on sterling whose been great lately. Would have preferred to see coutinho sacrificed. Still can't complain, YNWA

This game is a must win to elaborate further this means we in fact must win

We can go second

We win we go second, what else?

They will have 2 games in hand .

No Sterling ? Shouldnt we get the lead 1st?

We are not blocking their wide players, we need to change to 433. Coutinho is being wasted in the middle, he is hardly playing.