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Team news: Tigers v Munster

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Peter Betham and Freddie Burns return to the Leicester Tigers line-up for Sunday's European Champions Cup Pool 4 meeting with Munster Rugby at Welford Road (5.15pm).Australia international Betham is named alongside Matt Smith at centre after missing the game in Limerick last weekend, while fly-half Burns replaces Owen Williams who jarred a knee in that match.   There are no changes among the forwards for the second leg of the head-to-head fixtures, with Ed Slater leading the team on home ground.   Tom Croft has recovered from illness to take a place among the replacements in the only other change to last week’s line-up.   Match tickets are still available. Book at the Welford Road ticket office, phone 0116 319 8888 (option 2) or online at the Tigers website. For a full matchday guide, including news of the Tigers Christmas Market from 2.15pm, click here.   Leicester Tigers (v Munster Rugby, Welford Road, Sunday 5.15pm) 15 Telusa Veainu        14 Adam Thompstone 13 Peter Betham         12 Matt Smith             11 Vereniki Goneva    10 Freddie Burns        9 Ben Youngs 1 Marcos Ayerza        2 Tom Youngs      3 Dan Cole      4 Mike Fitzgerald 5 Graham Kitchener 6 Ed Slater (c)  7 Brendon O’Connor 8 Lachlan McCaffrey  Replacements 16 Harry Thacker 17 Matias Aguero        18 Fraser Balmain 19 Dom Barrow   20 Tom Croft              21 Sam Harrison   22 Tommy Bell   23 Seremaia Bai         Munster Rugby: 15 Andrew Conway, 14 Keith Earls, 13 Francis Saili, 12 Denis Hurley, 11 Simon Zebo, 10 Ian Keatley, 9 Conor Murray; 1 James Cronin, 2 Mike Sherry, 3 John Ryan, 4 Mark Chisholm, 5 Donnacha Ryan, 6 Robin Copeland, 7 Dave O'Callaghan, 8 CJ Stander (c) Replacements: 16 Niall Scannell, 17 Dave Kilcoyne, 18 Mario Sagario, 19 Dave Foley, 20 Jack O'Donoghue, 21 Tomas O'Leary, 22 Rory Scannell, 23 Lucas Amorosino