Ronald Koeman will give his young guns a chance to impress in pre-season – starting with tonight’s first game of the summer against RB Leipzig.

Saints have taken a large squad with them to Austria, as they get straight down to business with a match this evening.

The game will be a big chance for the younger stars to shine with Ronald Koeman refusing to use any of the international players who have only just returned to the club after their summer breaks.

He confirmed: “Yes, they will get opportunities to play. We play a friendly on Wednesday and most of them will be part of that friendly, because the international players who start today won't be involved in the match on Wednesday “

They get the opportunity to show their qualities. Finally, when we go to Holland we'll bring the squad down in numbers to travel than we do normally tomorrow, because we take 30, 31 players to Austria.” RB Leipzig are a German Division 2 club.

They are coached by Ralf Rangnick, who has managed other teams in the German leagues such as Schalke who he led to the Champions League semi-finals, Hoffenheim and Hannover.

They managed to finish fifth last season, eight points and two places off the qualification play-offs.

One key player Southampton will need to look out for is their deadly striker Yussef Poulsen, who scored 12 goals last season in 24 games.

Leipzig ended their Bundesliga 2 campaign scoring 39 and conceding 31 in 34 matches.