Ange Postecoglou has named his starting XI for today’s pre-season friendly against Vissel Kobe at the Japan National Stadium (11am UK).
There are five changes to the team that started at QPR last weekend as Guglielmo Vicario comes in for his first appearance of pre-season, replacing Brandon Austin, while Emerson Royal and Ben Davies come into our back line in place of Oliver Skipp and Jamie Donley.
In our forward areas, James Maddison comes back into the starting XI with Lucas Bergvall making way while Dejan Kulusevski replaces Timo Werner, who is unavailable through illness.
Here’s our full line-up…
Starting XI: Vicario; Pedro Porro, Royal, Gray, Davies; Sarr, Bissouma, Maddison; Kulusevski, Son (c), Johnson
Substitutes: Austin, Gunter, Abbott, Spence, Phillips, Skipp, Devine, Hall, Bergvall, Donley, Moore, Solomon, Scarlett, Veliz, Lankshear.
Our opponents line-up as follows...
Starting XI: Maekawa, Kuwasaki, Kikuchi, Thuler, Hatsuse (c), Ohgihara, Iino, Ideguchi, Yamauchi, Muto, Osako.
Substitutes: Arai, Takayama, Obi, Yamakawa, Honda, Homma, Terasaka, Yamada, Iwanami, Sasaki, Hidaka, Hamasaki, Patric, Tominaga.