Leicester City v Manchester United: Premier League – live! | Football

Those teams: Jamie Vardy starts, which means Leicester field an unchanged side from the eleven who saw off Spurs last weekend.

Manchester United defender Eric Bailly is in for Aaron Wan-Bissaka, making only his sixth appearance for United this season.

Leicester City: Schmeichel; Justin, Fofana, Evans, Castagne; Ndidi, Tielemans; Albrighton, Maddison, Barnes; Vardy.

Subs: Ward, Thomas, Amartey, Fuchs, Mendy, Choudhury, Praet, Perez, Iheanacho.

Manchester United: De Gea, Lindelof, Bailly, Maguire, Shaw; McTominay, Fred; Fernandes; Rashford, Martial, James.

Subs: Henderson, Tuanzebe, Telles, Matic, Pogba, Lingard, Van de Beek, Greenwood, Cavani.

Today’s match officials

Referee: Mike Dean
Assistants: Ian Hussin and Dan Robathan
Fourth official: Robert Jones
VAR: Graham Scott

Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy is expected to be fit, despite picking up a groin injury in his side’s win over Tottenham last weekend. Having recovered from the knee injury that kept him sidelined since March, Ricardo Pereira misses out again with a groin injury. Caglar Soyuncu is suffering from a similar injury and may also miss out.

Ole Gunnar Solskjær may have to plot without Scott McTominay and Aaron Wan Bissaka. McTominay picked up a groin injury during his bravura perfomance against Leeds last week, while Wan Bissaka missed United’s midweek League Cup win against Everton with some manner of unspecified knock.

Merry Christmas one and all, and welcome to our minute-by-minute coverage of the Boxing Day opener between Leicester City and Manchester United at the King Power Stadium.

Currently in second place, a point clear of their visitors, Leicester City can go within a point of the league leaders Liverpool with a win over United, whose League Cup win over Everton on Wednesday was their third victory in a week.

Kick-off in Leicester is at 12.30pm (GMT), but stay tuned in the meantime for team news and build-up.