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Speedway: Three big meetings for Leicester Lions

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Leicester Lions can move two steps nearer to silverware with three crucial meetings in as many days.

They travel to Sheffield tonight as leaders in their League Cup group and a point at Owlerton will secure their place in the semi-final draw.

Sheffield can also qualify if they collect all three match points – but the Harry Jordan Haulage-sponsored Lions can go through with a losing bonus point.

"Let's not kid ourselves, Sheffield are almost invincible at Owlerton where they have lost just 18 Premier League matches in 16 years," said Lions team manager Glyn Taylor.

"From those statistics, you can begin to see that everyone has to be on their game.

"I believe we are riding well enough to make a real go of it and have only one thought in mind, and that is to win.

"We can afford to draw or, as a bare minimum, lose by six which will give us the bonus match point. But that is defensive talk when in fact we will be going there on the offensive."

Tomorrow, Lions journey further north to Edinburgh where they take on the Monarchs in the first leg of the Knock-out Cup, before welcoming their Scottish rivals to the Jordan Road Surfacing Stadium for the return leg on Saturday.

The Scottish club are cup specialists and are three times winners of the title.

Taylor said: "Edinburgh are another team with a very good home record and, at the very least, we need to keep in contention throughout the meeting to give ourselves a chance of outscoring them over the two-leg tie.

"The rules of the competition do not favour the away team as there are no tactical changes a team manager can make to gain double points if their side is losing."

The Lions make two positional changes to the team that gained a convincing win against Scunthorpe last Saturday, with Jan Graversen and Kevin Doolan switching places for all three fixtures.

Leicester: 1 Kauko Nieminen, 2 Jan Graversen, 3 Lasse Bjerre, 4 Kevin Doolan, 5 Magnus Karlsson, 6 Simon Nielsen, 7 Lewis Blackbird.

Sheffield: 1 Simon Stead, 2 Facundo Albin, 3 Joe Haines, 4 Richard Hall, 5 Ricky Wells, 6 Damien Koppe, 7 Jake Knight.

Edinburgh: 1 Craig Cook, 2 Derek Sneddon, 3 Theo Pijper, 4 Max Fricke, 5 Claus Vissing, 6 Marcel Helfer, 7 Jozsef Tabaka.

Speedway: Three big meetings for Leicester Lions


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