Exequiel Palacios makes his full debut and first appearance at Portman Road in an otherwise unchanged Town side facing Liverpool live on Sky this evening (KO 8pm).

Argentinian World Cup-winning midfielder Palacios comes in for Marcelino Nunez, who drops to the bench alongside new signings Florentino Luis and Zian Flemming, both in the squad for the first time since joining the club. Chuba Akpom and Sindre Walle Egeli drop out.

Liverpool make one change from the team which drew 2-2 at home to Nottingham Forest last week with Ronald Araujo coming in at right-back for his first Premier League start and Jeremie Frimpong moving to the bench, alongside Bradley Barcola, who joined the Reds from PSG for £123 million earlier in the week.

Town: Scherpen, O’Shea (c), Diop, Greaves, Davis, Palacios, Lukic, Fatawu, Enciso, Maeda, Emersonn. Subs: Walton, Furlong, Kipre, Ouattara, Florentino, Nunez, McAteer, Clarke, Flemming.

Liverpool: Alisson, Jacquet, Araujo, Van Dijk (c), Kerkez, Mac Allister, Szoboszlai, Wirtz, Munoz, Isak, Gakpo. Subs: Mamardashvili, Endo, Tsimikas, Barcola, Frimpong, Gravenberch, Nyoni, Koumas, Ngumoha. Referee: Darren England (Doncaster). Assistants: Richard West and Adrian Holmes. Fourth official: Lewis Smith. VAR: Nick Hopton. Assistant VAR: Gary Beswick.

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