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Team news: Tigers at Glasgow Warriors

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Matt Toomua will make his Leicester Tigers debut in the European Champions Cup fixture away to Glasgow Warriors on Friday evening.

Australia international Toomua lines up at centre as Tigers kick off a 20th season in Europe’s elite club competition with a trip to Scotstoun in Pool 1.
 
Tom Brady makes his first European appearance for the club after scoring a try in the Aviva Premiership win over Worcester Warriors at Welford Road last weekend.
 
In the forward pack, Mike Fitzgerald starts in the back row as Mike Williams is ruled out with a broken arm.
 
Ed Slater returns from an ankle injury to join the matchday squad and Freddie Burns is also fit to return this weekend.
 
Leicester Tigers (v Glasgow Warriors, away, Friday 7.45pm)
15 Telusa Veainu
14 Adam Thompstone
13 Mathew Tait
12 Matt Toomua
11 Tom Brady
10 Owen Williams
9 Ben Youngs
1 Ellis Genge
2 Tom Youngs (c)
3 Dan Cole
4 Dom Barrow
5 Graham Kitchener
6 Mike Fitzgerald
7 Brendon O'Connor
8 Lachlan McCaffrey
           
Replacements
16 Harry Thacker
17 Logovi’i Mulipola
18 Greg Bateman
19 Ed Slater
20 Will Evans
21 Sam Harrison
22 Freddie Burns
23 Peter Betham

Glasgow Warriors: 15 Stuart Hogg, 14 Leonardo Sarto, 13 Alex Dunbar, 12 Sam Johnson, 11 Rory Hughes, 10 Finn Russell, 9 Henry Pyrgos (co-captain); 1 Gordon Reid, 2 Fraser Brown, 3 Zander Fagerson, 4 Tim Swinson, 5 Jonny Gray (co-captain), 6 Rob Harley, 7 Ryan Wilson, 8 Josh Strauss
Replacements: 16 Pat MacArthur, 17 Alex Allan, 18 Sila Puafisi, 19 Matt Fagerson, 20 Lewis Wynne, 21 Ali Price, 22 Mark Bennett, 23 Sean Lamont