Given all the uncertainty of opening day games, Burnley at least provide some predictability. Deadline-day signing Danny Drinkwater is unlikely to play given his lack of action in the past year but returning local boy Jay Rodriguez should feature up front alongside Ashley Barnes. Elsewhere all will be as it was last season, in terms of personnel at least, though Sean Dyche will expect his team’s form to surpass 2018’s dismal start. For Saints Ralph Hasenhüttl could start new signings Che Adams and Moussa Djenepo, with £15m Adams expected to partner Danny Ings who made his move to St Mary’s permanent this summer. Paul MacInnes
Saturday 3pm
Venue Turf Moor
Last season Burnley 1 Southampton 1
Referee Graham Scott
Last season G17 Y38 R1 2.29 cards/game
Odds H 7-4 A 15-8 D 9-4
BURNLEY
Subs from Legzdins, Hart, Peacock-Farrell, Long, Tarkowski, Gundmundsson, Drinkwater, McNeil, Gibson, Westwood, Wood, Pieters, Bardsley, Vydra, Agyei, Dunne
Doubtful Brady (ribs), Cork (groin), Long (groin), Tarkowski (thigh)
Injured Defour (calf, unknown)
Suspended None
Discipline Y75 R1 (last season)
Leading scorer Barnes 12 (last season)
SOUTHAMPTON
Subs from McCarthy, Soares, Yoshida, Hoedt, Long, Elyounoussi, Romeu, Armstrong, Lemina, Boufal, Gunn, Lewis, Forster, Slattery, Obafemi, Ramsay, Danso, Djenepo, Carrillo
Doubtful None
Injured None
Suspended None
Discipline Y71 R3 (last season)
Leading scorers Ings, Ward-Prowse 7 (last season)
