Suarez and Sturridge strike a pose for the camera as Liverpool line up for team photo... but can the double act fire Reds to title glory?

There was a moment this summer when Liverpool fans feared Luis Suarez would never line up for their side again. But the controversial striker took his place alongside his team-mates on Friday afternoon as he and the rest of his title hopefuls posed for the camera.
Fresh from scoring a brace against Sunderland in his first Premier League game since he bit Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic and served a subsequent 10-match ban, Suarez could afford a smile in his seat next to Philippe Coutinho and Jordan Henderson.
Liverpool have enjoyed a promising start to their campaign taking 13 points from their opening six games and Suarez wasn't the only in-form Liverpool striker grinning for the camera with Daniel Sturridge also showing off his gnashers. 

 

And who can blame him? The former Chelsea and Manchester City striker tops the goalscoring chart in the Premier League after bagging an impressive five goals. He also scored a double in Liverpool's 4-2 Capital One Cup win over Notts County.
Sturridge, who is expected to feature for England in next week's crunch World Cup qualifiers against Poland and Montenegro, will meet up with his international team-mates, including Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard, after the clash with Crystal Palace on Saturday.
Until then, Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers believes fiddling with his formation is worth it if means he can maintain his two-pronged attack. In recent weeks the Northern Irishman has opted for a 3-4-1-2 formation, which was virtually a 3-2-3-2 in last weekend's win at the Stadium of Light.  

Leading from the front: Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard and his team-mates are put through their paces at Melwood on Friday

All smiles: Suarez appeared in good spirits as the Uruguay forward prepares for his third game since his 10-match ban

He first utilised it after injuries to full-backs Glen Johnson and Jose Enrique but the return of Suarez left him with the conundrum of getting the best out of one striker who scored 30 goals last season and another enjoying a rich vein of form in the Uruguay international's absence.  
And while Rodgers is reluctant to commit himself and his team to a preferred set-up he admits the current system gets the best out of his two strikers, who scored all three goals in a 3-1 win at the Stadium of Light on Sunday.  
'It's about exploiting the strengths of our players and I think this does it well for us,' he said. 'What I've found is that if I play one up top and one wide, I take a little bit away from them. They work better as a proper front two.  

Double act: Gerrard and Suarez battle for the ball and (right) the Uruguay star speaks to his new strike partner Daniel Sturridge ahead of Crystal Palace's visit

'In Suarez and Sturridge, I've got what I call two "nine-and-a-halves". They both like to move, they like to drift and they both like to go into the half-positions in between the lines.  
'You've got two great players as your front two and then you build the structure around that.  
'I'm not the traditional 4-4-2 man and with the players we've got we can make this system work.  
'If you have got them (Sturridge and Suarez) through the middle, moving and inter-changing then your structure has to then change behind that and that's obviously something that we have done.'