Southampton vs Crystal Palace LIVE: Premier League latest score, goals and updates from fixture
Follow all the action from St. Mary's Stadium
Follow live coverage as Southampton face Crystal Palace in the Premier League today.
Manchester City are reigning champions after beating Liverpool to the finish line in a neck-and-neck 2021/22 title race where a comeback win on the final day of the season against Aston Villa secured a fourth title in five years for Pep Guardiola's side.
Jurgen Klopp's Reds were on course for a quadruple last season but were forced to settle for just an FA Cup and Carabao Cup win and will return trying to win the title again just as they did in 2020.
It was a dramatic season for Chelsea a year ago with Roman Abramovich now replaced by Todd Boehly as owner in west London. He will want an instant return on his hefty investment at Stamford Bridge while Tottenham, back in the Champions League, will want to kick on once more too.
It's not all about the action at the top though with Fulham, Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest promoted to the top tier for 2021/22 and hoping to hold their own against the best English football has to offer and avoid the drop.
We will bring you all the action and updates from today's game in the live blog below:
Southampton vs Crystal Palace
The players are out on the pitch at St Mary's, and kick-off is now just moments away!
Southampton vs Crystal Palace
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Hodgson has named an unchanged starting XI today, keeping faith with the side that thumped Leeds last weekend. Wilfried Zaha and Vicente Guaita remain on the sidelines due to injury, and Nathaniel Clyne now joins them - Richards replaces the latter on the Crystal Palace bench.
Southampton vs Crystal Palace
A first Premier League start of the year for Aribo is Southampton's sole change today, following the 4-1 loss to Manchester City last weekend; Elyounoussi drops to the bench. Lavia overcomes a hamstring problem to start, but Mohammed Salisu, Che Adams and Mislav Orsic are all ruled out by injury.
Southampton vs Crystal Palace
SUBS: Owen Goodman, Albert Sambi Lokonga, Jean-Philippe Mateta, Chris Richards, Jairo Riedewald, Luka Milivojevic, Will Hughes, James McArthur, James Tomkins.
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