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  1. Pick of the stats: Leicester City v Sheffield Wednesday

    Side-by-side of Leicester City and Sheffield Wednesday club badges

    The 2025-26 Championship opening weekend concludes with an intriguing encounter between Leicester City and Sheffield Wednesday on Sunday afternoon (16:30 BST).

    The visiting Owls have been in the midst of a financial crisis, with key players departing and threatening strike action, leaving the English Football League to wonder if Sunday's game will happen at all.

    It hasn't quite been so bad for Leicester but their pre-season hasn't been all plain sailing either, with a lot of confusion surrounding the managerial position finally being answered by the appointment of former Queens Park Rangers boss Marti Cifuentes.

    • Leicester City are unbeaten across their last three league games against Sheffield Wednesday (W2 D1), last enjoying a longer undefeated run against the Owls between August 1967 and October 1981 (six games).

    • Sheffield Wednesday have lost three of their last four away league games against Leicester City (W1), conceding 2+ goals in each defeat.

    • Leicester are unbeaten across their last six opening games of a league campaign (W3 D3), since a 2-1 loss to Manchester United at Old Trafford to start the 2018-19 season.

    • This is the fourth time in the 21st century that Sheffield Wednesday are starting a Championship season against a side relegated from the Premier League the previous campaign – they lost 2-1 against both QPR (2013-14) and Southampton (2023-24) but beat Aston Villa 1-0 (2016-17).

    • This will be the 69th time that Leicester will start a league campaign with a home match, with only Everton having more opening matches on home soil across England's top four tiers (72).

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  2. A forensic van pictured in front of terraced properties.

  3. A side-by-side of Birmingham City's Chris Davies pointing and Ipswich Town's Kieran McKenna applauding

  4. Wilfred Ndidi

  5. Leicester Royal Infirmary sign outside entrance with woman in hat walking past

  6. A bell tower on top of a foundry building

  7. A man in high vis clothing and a work helmet crouches on a road in front of a maintenance vehicle

  8. Mads Hermansen playing for Leicester

  9. Alex Green

  10. (Left to right) Birmingham striker Jay Stansfield, Sheffield United midfielder Gustavo Hamer, Ipswich head coach Kieran McKenna and Coventry boss Frank Lampard.

  11. A bridge with a sign that reads "low bridge"

  12. Gas rising into the air on Grantham Road, with a fire engine in the background

  13. Xielo Maruziva

  14. Gossip: Foxes eye Doyle as Ndidi jets off

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    Leicester and Nigeria midfielder Wilfred Ndidi, 28, is set to undergo a medical at Besiktas ahead of an £8.5m move to the Turkish Super Lig. (Sky Sports)

    Norwich are hoping to beat Leicester and Sheffield United to the signing of England under-21 defender Callum Doyle, 21, who is valued around £10m by Man City. (SportsBoom)

    Want more transfer news from the EFL? Take a look at Thursday's gossip column here.

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  15. The front of Leicester Magistrates

  16. A portrait of Ada Lovelace in the Science Museum

  17. Thomas Rew (left) and older brother and Somerset captain James out in the middle against Middlesex

  18. A general street view

  19. A shopfront with the words Anokhi House of Sarees in gold lettering

  20. A close-up of red-coloured packets of ready salted Walkers crisps alongside some of the brand's other lines on shelves in a supermarket. In the background, out of focus, a woman walks down the aisle carrying a shopping basket.

  21. Split image of Leicester City lifting the Premier League trophy and Leicester players looking disappointed after relegation from the Premier League

  23. A blonde haired woman with glasses on her head. She is wearing a pink t-shirt with a necklace round her neck. There is a field and a blue sky with clouds in the background.

  24. Land off Heath Road in Bagworth, Leicestershire, with shrubs in the forefront at the roadside and trees and a wind turbine in the distance on a dry cloudy day.