Premier League updates from the 12.30pm GMT kick-offTime running out for Puel’s quest to galvanise LeicesterAnd feel free to email scott.murray@theguardian.com 11.52am GMT Harvey Barnes makes his first start in the Premier League for Leicester City today. This is what the 21-year-old midfielder will find in the Molineux away dressing room. Hopefully OCD isn’t an issue for the young man, because the way his shirt’s been folded, the bottom of the numbers aren’t in view. And those socks have been paired to different lengths. It’s chaos. Who could concentrate in the face of such disorder? I’d be spinning like a top. A free bottle of calming isotonic pop, though, so it’s swings and roundabouts. 11.38am GMT Two changes for Wolves off the back of their 3-0 defeat at the Etihad. Romain Saiss and Ruben Vinagre take the place of the suspended Willy Boly and the benched Matt Doherty, neither of whom particularly covered themselves in glory on Monday night.Leicester make three changes to the team that lost 2-1 at home to Southampton last Saturday. Danny Simpson, Demarai Gray and Harvey Barnes replace James Maddison, Marc Albrighton and Hamza Choudhary, who all drop to the bench. Barnes, who impressed on his recent loan spell at West Brom, makes his first Premier League start for the club. 11.32am GMT Wolverhampton Wanderers: Rui Patricio, Bennett, Coady, Dendoncker, Jonny, Saiss, Neves, Ruben Vinagre, Joao Moutinho, Jimenez, Jota.Subs: Doherty, Ivan Cavaleiro, Helder Costa, Gibbs-White, John Ruddy, Giles, Traore.Leicester City: Schmeichel, Simpson, Morgan, Maguire, Chilwell, Mendy, Ndidi, Ricardo Pereira, Gray, Barnes, Vardy.Subs: Evans, Iheanacho, Maddison, Albrighton, Ward, Fuchs, Choudhury. 10.54am GMT Wolverhampton Wanderers are one of the success stories of the season. No doubt about that. Last year’s Championship winners are in no danger of going back down. Nuno Espirito Santo’s team can beat the best of them on their day: they’ve taken a point off the champions Manchester City, won at Spurs, and knocked league leaders Liverpool out of the cup. The 1954, 1958 and 1959 champions of England are back, baby!Even so, their recent form hasn’t been so hot. Beating Tottenham just after Christmas was some result, but it’s their only win in their last five Premier League outings. That sequence has seen them well beaten at home by Liverpool and Crystal Palace, scrape a draw at Fulham, and lose heavily at Manchester City. They could do with a big result here to get themselves back into the top half of the table. Continue readingreadfullarticle
