Liverpool midfielder Adam Lallana is preparing to face former club Southampton this weekend.
Lallana left Saints last summer.
"It's still not sunk in that I'm going to be playing against Southampton. I think it was a blessing in disguise that I was injured for the first game.
"Even being in the crowd watching that day I just felt really emotional so to have been out there would have been way too soon.
"The rawness of it all has got easier over the past six months. I am looking forward to the game. We've got Besiktas on Thursday which helps as it means I'm concentrating on that and it will only give me a couple of days to think about the Southampton game."
