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Luongo and Harness Return For Blues at Leicester - Ipswich Town News

Massimo Luongo returns to the Town line-up as Blues boss Kieran McKenna makes two changes for this evening’s first-v-third game against leaders Leicester City at the King Power Stadium (KO 8pm).

The Australian missed the 2-1 win at home to Sunderland just over a week ago due to an ankle injury but is back in this evening’s XI, replacing Jack Taylor, who drops to the bench.

Elsewhere, the team is the same as the one which started against the Black Cats other than Marcus Harness coming in for Nathan Broadhead, who is also among the subs.

Skipper Sam Morsy is again absent as he serves the final game of this two-match ban.

For Leicester, whose manager Enzo Maresca is serving a one-game touchline ban, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall is fit enough to start having been a doubt with a knock picked up in their last game, the 3-1 defeat at Coventry.

Cesare Casadei, who has been recalled by parent club Chelsea, and Abdul Fatawu, suspended having been sent off against the Sky Blues, are replaced by Hamza Choudhury and Kasey McAteer. Veteran frontman Jamie Vardy returns to the bench.

Leicester: Hermansen, Faes, Vestergaard, Justin, Choudhury, Winks, Ricardo (c), Dewsbury-Hall, McAteer, Mavididi, Cannon. Subs: Stolarczyk, Coady, Doyle, Vardy, Albrighton, Praet, Akgun, Marcal, Nelson.

Town: Hladky, Clarke, Woolfenden, Edmundson, Davis, Travis, Luongo, Burns, Chaplin (c), Harness, Jackson. Subs: Walton, Tuanzebe, Ball, Humphreys, Taylor, Hutchinson, Sarmiento, Aluko, Broadhead. Referee: Josh Smith (Bedfordshire).

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