{"id":748975,"date":"2026-02-07T18:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/748975\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T18:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:31:13","slug":"leicester-city-team-news-v-birmingham-with-two-debutants-among-five-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/748975\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester City team news v Birmingham with two debutants among five changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Leicester City line up at St Andrew’s with Jamaal Lascelles and Joe Aribo thrown straight into the side<\/p>\n

13:46, 07 Feb 2026Updated 13:52, 07 Feb 2026<\/p>\n

\"Joe<\/p>\n

Joe Aribo is Leicester City’s first signing of the winter transfer window(Image: Plumb Images\/Leicester City FC via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Jamaal Lascelles and Joe Aribo have been handed their Leicester City debuts and number one Jakub Stolarczyk has been dropped as Andy King makes five changes to face Birmingham.<\/a><\/p>\n

Deadline-day recruits Lascelles and Aribo come straight into the side, not only make their first City<\/a> starts, but their first starts all season, with both players out of favour at Newcastle and Southampton respectively.<\/p>\n

But there are further changes to the team, most notably in goal, where Stolarczyk has been dropped to the bench, with Asmir Begovic coming back in.<\/p>\n

Begovic did play a handful of games when Stolarczyk was injured in November, but this is the first time he\u2019s been preferred to the Pole.<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere, it\u2019s the fit-again Oliver Skipp, and not Harry Winks, who replaces the injured Hamza Choudhury at the base of the midfield. There\u2019s a further change up front, with Patson Daka coming in for Jordan Ayew.<\/p>\n

Lascelles, whose last appearance came in September, is needed at centre-back with no other central defenders available. Caleb Okoli is suspended and Jannik Vestergaard remains injured.<\/p>\n

Ben Nelson will play alongside the new signing, with Ricardo Pereira and Luke Thomas at full-back.<\/p>\n

In midfield, Aribo replaces Louis Page and will play the box-to-box role, with Skipp behind him and Bobby De Cordova-Reid ahead of him.<\/p>\n

In attack, Abdul Fatawu and Stephy Mavididi flank Daka, who is seeking his second league goal of the season.<\/p>\n

Among the substitutes are fellow new signings Divine Mukasa and Dujuan Richards, while Victor Kristiansen also returns from a knee injury. There\u2019s no place for Silko Thomas, Wanya Marcal nor Kevon Gray.<\/p>\n

City: (4-3-3):<\/strong> Begovic; Ricardo, Nelson, Lascelles, Thomas; Skipp, Aribo, De Cordova-Reid; Fatawu, Daka, Mavididi.<\/p>\n

Subs:<\/strong> Stolarczyk, Aluko, Kristiansen, Winks, Page, Mukasa, Richards, Monga, Ayew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How Leicester City line up at St Andrew’s with Jamaal Lascelles and Joe Aribo thrown straight into the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[188621,94,16924,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-748975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-asmir-begovic","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-leicester-city-fc","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116030779699255333","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}