Leeds United v Leicester City: Championship – live

If the Lionesses’ clash with Austria tickles your fancy, then that’s our other live football offering this evening and John Brewin is your man.

It does seem like Leeds have the stronger substitutes’ bench tonight. Farke truly has an embarrassment of attacking riches at his disposal, for this level.

Leicester are not in the best of moments, as modern managers like to say, despite being top of the league. Wilfred Ndidi is out long-term, Kelechi Iheanacho is still missing and it seems Jamie Vardy has an injury, too, which keeps him out of the matchday squad. Throw in the fact that the Foxes lost their previous game and you have a few wobbles for Maresca’s men to deal with.

That said, a win today would probably put the rubber seal on automatic promotion for them and only four Championship teams (Middlesbrough twice, Coventry, Leeds and Hull) have actually beaten Leicester this season. They’re still a formidable outfit.

Leeds: Meslier, Gray, Rodon, Ampadu, Firpo, Gruev, Kamara, Summerville, Rutter, Gnonto, Piroe

Subs: Klaesson, Cresswell, Cooper, Roberts, Shackleton, James, Joseph, Anthony, Bamford

Leicester: Hermansen, Pereira, Faes, Vestegaard, Justin, Winks, Choudhury, Dewsbury-Hall, Fatawu, Mavididi, Daka

Subs: Stolarczyk, Coady, Doyle, Nelson, Praet, Akgün, McAteer, Albrighton, Cannon

Well. What a game this promises to be. The absolute best of the Championship, a game that will probably eclipse plenty of Premier League matches in terms of quality, stature and competitiveness. “This is a special game, this is why we started to play football,” said Daniel Farke earlier this week as he looked forward to a sizzling Elland Road atmosphere under the Friday night lights – it’s second versus first in the second tier.

With Leicester currently enjoying a seven-point cushion at the top, it’s probably a bigger game for Leeds tonight. They can feel Ipswich and Southampton breathing down their necks, and those teams in third and fourth respectively have fairly friendly home games tomorrow – in which they’ll be expected to capitalise on any Leeds slip-up.

Where’s your money, then? Leeds have won five on the bounce going into this one, while Enzo Maresca’s side suffered a surprise 2-1 home defeat to Middlesbrough last time out. The Whites were the victors by a solitary goal when the two sides faced off at the King Power in November.

It’s an 8pm GMT kick-off tonight and it should be a genuine cracker. Don’t miss out.