Some pre-match reading on a possible injustice ...
Referee: Graham Scott.
Assistants: Peter Kirkup and Timothy Wood.
Fourth official: Dean Whitestone.
VAR: Robert Jones.
Graham Scott, seen here having words with Fulham’s Ademola Lookman, is today’s match referee. Photograph: Richard Lee/BPI/REX/Shutterstock
Both managers will be tempted to make changes having played so recently, but Roy Hodgson may be forced to plan without Gary Cahill, who missed out on their Boxing Day fixture with a hamstring injury. Reserve goalkeeper Wayne Hennessy remains sidelined, as do Connor Wickham, Mamadou Sakho and Martin Kelly.
For Leicester, Caglar Soyuncu is back from a spell in the treatment room and may start, but Ricardo Pereira remains out. Cengiz Under is a doubt, having sat out Leicester’s draw with Manchester United, while Brendan Rodgers may be reluctant to risk playing the recently returned Timothy Castagne in two games across 48 hours.
Caglar Soyuncu may start for Leicester today after recovering from a groin injury. Photograph: Plumb Images/Leicester City/Getty Images
On the festive football schedule rumbles, with Crystal Palace hosting Leicester City in the first match of today’s top flight triple bill.
Palace come into today’s game on the back of a fairly comprehensive thrashing at the hands of an Aston Villa side that scored two goals against them while down to 10 men. Leicester travel to south London following their commendable and entertaining Boxing Day draw against Manchester United thast already seems a long time ago.
It wasn’t, however, so legs and muscles may be aching as the playters of both sides prepare for battle again. Kick-off is at 3pm (GMT), but stay tuned for team news and build-up in the meantime.
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