Team news v Preston as Stolarczyk handed rare start amid four changes

Jakub Stolarczyk has been handed just his second league start for Leicester City as Enzo Maresca makes four changes to his team at Preston.

The Polish goalkeeper replaces Mads Hermansen between the sticks as City go for the title at Deepdale, Stolarczyk handed his first Championship outing since August, when he kept a clean sheet in the first away day of the campaign at Huddersfield. And he’s not the only player to make a rare start.

Kasey McAteer, having missed a couple of months of football with a hamstring injury, makes his first start since the win at Watford in mid-February. He comes in for Stephy Mavididi, but could be playing on the right flank with Abdul Fatawu on the left.

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Yunus Akgun comes in to give Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall a rare night off, the Turk in for just his second start in the past eight Championship fixtures. Conor Coady completes the changes, replacing James Justin in a move that sees Wout Faes switch to left-back.

Stolarczyk has kept five clean sheets in his eight outings across all competitions this season and he will hope for another at Deepdale, where he is protected by a defence that also includes Jannik Vestergaard and Ricardo Pereira alongside Coady and Faes. In midfield, Yunus is joined by Harry Winks and Wilfred Ndidi.

Jamie Vardy captains the team in what could be his final away day with the club, the number nine flanked by McAteer and Fatawu. Mavididi, Patson Daka, and Tom Cannon are the attacking options on the bench.

City (4-3-3): Stolarczyk; Ricardo, Coady, Vestergaard, Faes; Winks, Ndidi, Yunus; Fatawu, Vardy, McAteer. Subs: Hermansen, Justin, Doyle, Choudhury, Praet, Dewsbury-Hall, Mavididi, Daka, Cannon.