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LEICESTER TIGERS MAKE TWO CHANGES TO THE STARTING LINE-UP FOR SATURDAY’S DERBY CLASH WITH NORTHAMPTON SAINTS AT WELFORD ROAD AS TOM YOUNGS AND MATT SMITH RETURN TO THE TEAM. Club captain

Youngs exchanges places with Tatafu Polota-Nau who starts among the replacements this weekend, while Smith comes into midfield following injury to Mathew Tait during last week’s triumph over

Bath Rugby at Twickenham. ------------------------- > TEAM NEWS 📋 | #LEIvNOR 🐯😇 >  > The Tigers side has been named for this weekend’s East Midlands > Derby Day clash with 

Northampton, including 2⃣ changes to the > Starting XV from last weekend’s win and a return from injury for > an international star. pic.twitter.com/iGjboheRIt >  > — Leicester 

Tigers (@LeicesterTigers) April 13, 2018 ------------------------- The only other changes after a fifth successive league win last week are on the bench where there are places for Ben Youngs

and Jonah Holmes after their recovery from injury and for George Worth. There are some notable landmarks in the starting team too with Sam Harrison and Graham Kitchener making their 150th

appearance for the club and a 50th game in Tigers colours for back-rower Luke Hamilton. Tigers head coach Matt O’Connor said: “We’re getting some bodies back from injury which allows us to

pick from a position of strength for the run-in and that is going to be important in such a tight competition. ------------------------- MORE STORIES: ------------------------- “We’ve been

on a decent run of results and had a good win at Twickenham last week but it means nothing if we don’t back it up against a very committed Northampton side.” Saturday’s game is heading

towards a second successive 25,849 sell-out at Welford Road. Only a small number of tickets remain on sale. Book in person at the Tigers ticket office, phone 0116 319 8888 or book online at

www.leicestertigers.com/matchtickets LEICESTER TIGERS TEAM TO PLAY NORTHAMPTON 15 Telusa Veainu 14 Adam Thompstone 13 Matt Smith 12 Matt Toomua 11 Jonny May 10 George Ford 9 Sam Harrison 1

Ellis Genge 2 Tom Youngs (c) 3 Dan Cole 4 Mike Fitzgerald 5 Graham Kitchener 6 Valentino Mapapalangi 7 Luke Hamilton 8 Sione Kalamafoni REPLACEMENTS 16 Tatafu Polota-Nau 17 Greg Bateman 18

Logovi’i Mulipola 19 Harry Wells 20 Will Evans 21 Ben Youngs 22 George Worth 23 Jonah Holmes