Gloucester v Leicester: Teams

Leicester have the chance to leap-frog Gloucester and take over at the summit of Guinness Premiership with a win at Kingsholm on Saturday.

The defending champions trail their opponents by four points and the contest promises to be a mouth-watering one with both side's incurring just one defeat in their last five matches.

Both sides are well below full strength due to a combination of injuries and Six Nations call-ups, but Martin Corry will lead a Tigers side containing no fewer than 10 internationals.

The only disappointment for head coach Marcelo Loffreda is that exciting Fijian Seru Rabeni is out through suspension

Good run

"We've had some good wins recently and we'd obviously like to keep that run going," said Leicester forwards coach Richard Cockerill.

"Going to Kingsholm is always an exciting challenge and that is definitely the case this year.

"They have an impressive squad and they've been playing some good rugby this season so we know that we will have to perform well if we are to come away with a win.

"We have complete confidence in our squad and we are proud of the strength in depth we have at this club. We are missing a few of the guys but we are still able to put out a strong side."

Gloucester make six changes to the side that beat Wasps last time out with Jack Forster and Mark Foster making their first Premiership starts of the season.

Adam Balding has been recalled from his loan spell at Leeds to play at number eight, and Willie Walker takes over at fly-half from the injured Ryan Lamb.

Allen in

Anthony Allen returns at centre alongside Jack Adams, who has been on loan at Moseley - and the final change sees Alasdair Strokosch go straight into the back row in place of Luke Narraway.

"We want to create an environment here where players press for international recognition but that obviously has a direct knock-on to Gloucester," said head coach Dean Ryan.

"That situation has been intensified because of injuries this week but this is nothing new to us and we have prepared the right way.

"One of the reasons we have made such a good start to the season is that we have not relied on any one individual to make a contribution - we have an excellent squad that will once again be tested this weekend.

"Leicester are an outstanding side and without doubt will present one of our biggest challenges of the season."

Tomorrow's game is one of three brought forward from March 22 because of the EDF Cup semi-finals.

Gloucester: 15 James Bailey, 14 James Simpson-Daniel, 13 Jack Adams, 12 Anthony Allen, 11 Mark Foster; 10 Willie Walker, 9 Rory Lawson; 1 Adam Balding, 2 Andy Hazell, 3 Alasdair Strokosch, 4 Will James, 5 Peter Buxton (capt), 6 Jack Forster, 7 Olivier Azam, 8 Nick Wood
Replacements: 16 Jeremy Paul, 17 Andy Titterrell, 18 Alasdair Dickinson, 19 Jonathan Pendlebury, 20 Gareth Cooper, 21 Ali James, 22 Charlie Sharples.

Leicester: 15 Johne Murphy, 14 Tom Varndell, 13 Ayoola Erinle, 12 Aaron Mauger, 11 Ollie Smith, 10 Andy Goode, 9 Christophe Lausucqq; 1 Marcos Ayerza, 2 George Chuter, 3 Alex Moreno, 4 Tom Croft, 5 Marco Wentzel, 6 Martin Corry (capt), 7 Ben Herring, 8 Jordan Crane
Replacements: 16 Benjamin Kayser, 17 Dave Young, 18 Gregor Gillanders, 19 Brett Deacon, 20 Frank Murphy, 21 Ian Humphreys, 22 Sam Vesty.