<h3 style="text-align: justify">Liverpool FC manager Brendan Rodgers could start winger Jordan Ibe and new signing Joe Gomez for the opening game of the Premier League, as per <a href="http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/brendan-rodgers-set-trust-teenage-9806708">Liverpool Echo</a>.</h3> <p style="text-align: justify">Ibe has been in scintillating form for <a href="http://www.thehardtackle.com/category/english-premier-league/liverpool/" target="_blank">Liverpool FC</a> in the pre-season, turning in man of the match performances against Adelaide United and Malaysia XI.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Ibe is touted to be the replacement for Raheem Sterling at the club and has <a href="http://www.thehardtackle.com/2015/ibe-miles-ahead-of-sterling-liverpool-fc-fans-rave-about-jordan-ibes-pre-season-performance/" target="_blank">earned rave reviews from manager Brendan Rodgers and fans alike</a>, during the pre-season.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Joe Gomez, a new signing from Charlton FC, is also predicted to start the game by the Liverpool Echo having come off a very good pre-season, too.</p> <h3 style="text-align: justify">If you are good enough, you are old enough</h3> <p style="text-align: justify">Liverpool FC manager Brendan Rodgers has shown in the past that he is willing to give youngsters the chance to play if they prove they are good enough.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Raheem Sterling, Jordan Ibe, Jordan Rossiter, Jerome Sinclair, Suso, Jon Flanagan, Coutinho, Andre Wisdom are only a few off the 16 under 21 players who have made their debuts under the Northern Irish manager.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Rodgers had earlier stated that Ibe will feature heavily for the club this season, and it seems he is going to live up to the claims on Sunday against Stoke.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">He sent out a much more experienced defender in Andre Wisdom out on loan in a show of trust to the young Joe Gomez.</p> <h3 style="text-align: justify">Ibe and Joe Gomez in profile</h3> <p style="text-align: justify">Jordan Ibe made 12 appearances for <a title="liverpool fc" href="http://www.thehardtackle.com/category/english-premier-league/liverpool/"><strong>Liverpool FC</strong></a> in the 2014-15 season after returning from his loan spell with Derby County, where he scored five goals in 20 <strong><a title="championship" href="http://www.thehardtackle.com/category/english-premier-league/championship/">Championship</a> </strong>outings.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">He signed for the club from Wycombe Wanderers in 2012 and was one of the few bright spots for the Reds in what was a disappointing season.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">The 19-year-old winger had, earlier in the summer, <a href="http://www.thehardtackle.com/2015/i-want-to-score-more-goals-jordan-ibe-reveals-reason-of-extra-training-with-kenny-dalglish/" target="_blank">cancelled his holiday and asked the cluba s Academy director Alex Inglethorpe to help arrange some extra sessions to work on his finishing</a> with none <a title="other" href="http://www.thehardtackle.com/category/uncategorized/"><strong>other</strong></a> than Kenny Dalglish coaching him.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Joe Gomez is a defender for England U19, who can play as both across the back three. He made 21 appearances for Charlton in the Championship in the 2014/15 season.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Gomez was a part of England side which won the European U17 Championships last summer, and was named in the team of the tournament in the process.</p> . <p style="text-align: justify">His performances earned him comparisons with former England star Rio Ferdinand, whom Gomez idolizes.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">He has progressed quickly at Charlton, playing for the U18 side at the age of 14, and was given his senior debut by former boss Bob Peeters in a Capital One Cup tie against Colchester United last August.</p>