Leicester City v Scunthorpe United
at the Walkers Stadium
Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 3.00pm

United travel to Leicester City on Saturday bidding to spring a surprise at the league's sixth-placed club and climb away from relegation trouble.

After a week in which they lost their two Championship matches, Scunthorpe now find themselves just one place and one point above the Championship drop zone.

Encouraged by a fine display against the new league leaders West Bromwich Albion, although they lost 2-0, the Iron aren't short of confidence heading to the Walkers Stadium.

Marcus Williams returns from a one-match suspension so will start at left-back in place of on-loan Brendan Moloney, who has gone back to Nottingham Forest after suffering a medial ligament injury at West Brom.

Manager Nigel Adkins will find out on Friday if the club's appeal to have Cliff Byrne's red card at West Brom rescinded is successful. The Irishman's dismissal was 'very harsh' according to the Iron chief.~

Having been sent off at Middlesbrough earlier this season too, the captain faces a two game ban, but should it be overturned he will start at right-back. Andrew Wright, back from an ankle problem, will come in should he miss out.

There could be other changes, with Paul Hayes pushing for a start after he was rested in midweek.

"Paul Hayes has played 61 consecutive games and has been on the pitch for more minutes than anybody," explained manager Nigel Adkins in his pre-match press conference.

"I rate him very, very highly and I think everybody realises that.

"We tried to win a game of football at West Bromwich Albion and sometimes you have to change things around.

"We're trying to do what is right with the group of players that we've got.

"The top teams will keep rotating their squads around. We haven't got a big enough squad to do that but we need to get the best out of what we have."

Garry Thompson (hamstring) will be out for a fortnight, so is missing for United again.

The Foxes are without top scorer Matty Fryatt, who is out for up to two months with a broken jaw, and fellow striker Yann Kermorgant is also a doubt.

The referee for the game is David Phillips.

See much more from Nigel Adkins, Rob Jones, Donal McDermott and Andrew Wright on The Iron Player.

TICKET NEWS

United have managed to sell almost 400 tickets for Saturday's Championship away trip to Leicester City.

Tickets are available online from Friday and in the club's ticket office now, with the Iron handed an initial allocation of 550 tickets.

They will remain on sale from Glanford Park until 2.00pm on Friday, and the remaining ones will then be available from the Walkers Stadium on matchday.

Details are as follows:

On sale dates
Group	Online	Box Office
Season Ticket Holders	Now	Now
Members	Now	Now
General Sale	Now	Now

LEICESTER CITY (AWAY) SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13
Tickets available from Glanford Park until 2.00pm on Friday
Allocation: 550 initially.
ADULT	SENIORS	U22's/STUDENTS	U16
£25.00	£21.00	£15.00	£10.00	Buy
	U12	U8
	£5.00	£3.00

THIS WEEKEND'S OTHER CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHES



SATURDAY
Barnsley v Plymouth, 15:00
Coventry v QPR, 15:00
Doncaster v Nottm Forest, 15:00
Leicester v Scunthorpe, 15:00
Middlesbrough v Peterborough, 15:00
Preston v Blackpool, 13:00
Sheff Utd v Bristol City, 15:00
Swansea v Newcastle, 12:45