Welcome to Eurosport’s LIVE coverage of Liverpool’s match against Southampton, as the Reds bid to open a season with seven consecutive wins for the first time in their history. Teams news - including the number of ex-Saints in the Liverpool side - is one the way next.

Shaqiri's corner is a poor one, but he gets a second chance and his curling shot is deflected by Long and then bundled into his own net by Hoedt.

Matip starts a Liverpool counter-attack which culminates in Vestegaard putting Mane's cross behind for a corner.

Southampton almost fashion a chance, with Targett crossing low to the near post where Van Dijk puts the ball behind.

Firmino pounces on a poor clearance from Cedric but three successive Liverpool crosses are then dealt with by the visitors.

Southampton getting plenty of men behind the ball early on, They are playing in a 4-5-1 formation as expected.

Shaqiri finds some space down the right and crosses for Firmino, who wins a header but can't direct it goalwards.

Salah loses possession on the edge of the Southampton area as his pass for Shaqiri goes astray.

And we're off.

Liverpool are in all in red, Southampton in yellow and blue.

The last Southampton player to score against Liverpool in the league was Mane in March 2016. Liverpool have kept four consecutive clean sheets against Saints in this competition.

With Chelsea not in action until tomorrow, a win is guaranteed to send Liverpool back to the top of the table. A draw could do so too, but only if Manchester City fail to beat Cradiff.

Here are the goals from that game in 2003.

Southampton's last league win here was in 2003, but they did enjoy a 1-0 triumph in the League Cup two seasons ago to a book a place in the final.

Liverpool have gone 660 minutes without conceding a premier League goal at Anfield, having kept seven clean sheets in a row.

Klopp though is keen to move on from the PSG win, writing in the programme that "we must immediately re-focus and all our efforts and energies have to go into this huge fixture today." He's encouraged the fans to re-create the atmosphere from Tuesday and added the he has "spoken many times about staying 'angry' in the competitive sense. Today that is critical. Southampton come here to ruin our day."

The two clubs were on differing ends of late goals last time out; whereas Roberto Firmino's stoppage-time winner gave Liverpool an excellent win against PSG on Tuesday, Southampton conceded a late equaliser a day earlier that stopped them winning back-to-back league games for the first time in 17 months.

Saints are of course without Danny Ings, who is ineligible to face his parent club. He’s scored half of the club’s six league goals this season.

Mark Hughes makes two changes, with Oriol Romeu and Matt Targett coming into the side with the idea clearly to add more defensive steel. Targett's last Premier League start was on Boxing Day and, a left-back by trade, he looks set to play on the left of midfield.

SOUTHAMPTON: McCarthy, Cedric, Vestegaard, Hoedt, Bertrand, Romeu, Hojbjerg, Lemina, Redmond, Targett, Long.

Jurgen Klopp makes three chances, with Roberto Firmino, Joel Matip and Xherdan Shaqiri replacing Daniel Sturridge, Joe Gomez and James Milner. That's an attacking line-up and he resists the temptation to rest any of his front three despite difficult fixtures coming up. Virgil van Dijk and Sadio Mane were both bought from Southampton.

LIVERPOOL: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Van Dijk, Robertson, Henderson, Wijnaldum, Shaqiri, Mane, Salah, Firmino.