Leicester v Perpignan: Teams

Leicester will welcome back Italy international Martin Castrogiovanni for the visit of Perpignan on Sunday.

The inclusion of Castrogiovanni is the only change to the starting XV following the 24-19 defeat to Perpignan in France.

Dan Cole drops to the bench, where he is joined by fellow prop Julian White - with director of rugby Richard Cockerill knowing his side will have to dig deep to get the win.

"This was always going to be a tight pool and every point is very important," said Cockerill.

"We expect another big performance from Perpignan and we need to match that mentally and physically, we need to have our attitude spot-on and we need the home crowd behind us.

"We knew there would be times over there when we were under a huge amount of pressure and we'd have to dig deep and get ourselves out of a hole We showed great resilience and commitment."

Perpignan have made eight changes for the clash - with former Tiger Henry Tuilagi set to start at No.8.

Tuilagi will face two of his brothers at Welford Road with Alesana named on the Leicester wing and Manu on the bench.

Farid Sid, Maxime Mermoz, Adrien Plante, Rimas Alvarez Kairelis, Grégory Le Corvec and Jean-Pierre Perez also start, while Joffrey Michel moves to full-back.

Leicester: 15 Geordan Murphy, 14 Scott Hamilton, 13 Matt Smith, 12 Anthony Allen, 11 Alesana Tuilagi, 10 Joe Duffey, 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Jordan Crane, 7 Craig Newby, 6 Thomas Waldrom, 5 George Skivington, 4 Louis Deacon, 3 Martin Castrogiovanni, 2 George Chuter, 1 Marcos Ayerza
Replacements: 16 Rob Hawkins, 17 Julian White, 18 Dan Cole, 19 Ed Slater, 20 Steve Mafi, 21 James Grindal, 22 Jeremy Staunton, 23 Manu Tuilagi,

Perpignan: 15 Joffrey Michel, 14 Farid Sid, 13 David Marty, 12 Maxime Mermoz, 11 Adrien Plante, 10 Nicolas Laharrague, 9 David Mele, 1 Perry Freshwater, 2 Marius Tincu, 3 Nicolas Mas, 4 Rimas Alvarez Kairelis, 5 Olivier Olibeau, 6 Grégory Le Corvec, 7 Jean-Pierre Perez, 8 Henry Tuilagi.
Replacements: 16 Charles Geli, 17 Kisi Pulu, 18 Benoit Bourrust, 19 Ovidiu Tonita, 20 Robins Tchale Watchou, 21 Damien Chouly, 22 Florian Cazenave, 23 Manny Edmonds.