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England's Freddie Steward and Scotland's Duhan van der Merwe will be in action at Mattioli Woods Welford RoadLeicester Tigers have made six changes to the side that will face Edinburgh in the Heineken European Champions Cup round of 16 on Friday.
England pair Freddie Steward and Jack van Pootrvliet join Guy Porter in the backs, while James Cronin, Dan Cole and Tommy Reffell all return in the pack.
Edinburgh make five changes as they welcome back Scotland quartet Pierre Schoeman, Jamie Ritchie, Hamish Watson and Duhan van der Merwe.
Prop WP Nel is the only other change.
Teams
Leicester Tigers: Steward; Watson, Porter, Gopperth, Potter; Pollard, Van Pootrvliet; Cronin, Montoya (c), Cole, Martin, Henderson, Liebenberg, Reffell, Cracknell.
Replacements: Clare, West, Heyes, Synman, Wiese, Wolstenholme, Atkinson, Kelly.
Edinburgh: Boffelli; Graham, Bennett, Lang, Van der Merwe; Kinghorn, Pyrgos; Schoeman, McInally, Nel, Skinner, Gilchrist (co-captain), Ritchie (co-captain), Watson, Mata.
Replacements: Cherry, Venter, De Bruin, Sykes, Crosbie, Vellacott, Hutchison, Hoyland.
More to follow.
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