Leicester V Birmingham: Championship – Live

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For Birmingham, Lewis Koumas, boy of Jason, connected indebtedness from Liverpool, an EFL Cup victor successful 2024, makes a debut. No Bilal El Khannouss for Leicester again amid transportation talk contempt being declared “available”. Jeremy Monga, 16, drops to nan chair for Stephy Mavidi but Louis Page, 17, make his first location start.

Plenty of blooming younker astir astatine nan nine of Jimmy Bloomfield, their legendary head of nan 1970s.

The teams

Leicester: Stolarczyk, Choudhury, Okoli, Vestergaard, Luke Thomas, Soumare, Skipp, Fatawu, Page, Mavididi, Ayew. Subs: Begovic, Faes, Nelson, Winks, Ricardo Pereira, Silko Thomas, Aluko, Monga, Daka.

Birmingham: Allsop, Samuel, Neumann, Klarer, Laird, Willumsson, Paik, Iwata, Gray, Koumas, Furuhashi. Subs: Beadle, Gardner-Hickman, Cashin, Cochrane, Leonard, Doyle, Anderson, Ducksch, Dykes.

Referee: Josh Smith (Lincolnshire)

Preamble

A midlands derby, eastbound v west, and pinch location being nary clip for illustration nan present, and Stoke (!) moving distant pinch nan Championship, this is simply a conflict for nan playoff. OK, it’s aft 4 games but some teams are successful a hurry to nan Premier League. Leicester, well, finances dictate they request to get backmost up. Birmingham, well, pinch Toms Wagner and Brady involved, are shooting for nan moon, and rebuilding nan Second City pinch it. Or something. There’s precocious stakes astatine play here, pinch Chris Martin backmost astatine Leicester wherever he erstwhile worked nether Brendan Rodgers. Martí Cifuentes is nan latest head asked to move nan Leicester vessel around. Signs truthful acold for some clubs person been promising.

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