Flood and Youngs missed the win at Newcastle Falcons in Round 21 which secured Tigers a home game in the Aviva Premiership semi-finals, but return for the visit of Irish in an otherwise unchanged team.
Tigers go into the final round of league fixtures on top of the Aviva Premiership table and director of rugby Richard Cockerill said: “We’ve had some good wins on the road but now we have a big game at Welford Road and we want to go into the semi-finals next week on the back of a good performance.”
Welford Road is hosting a Tigers double on Saturday with the senior fixture followed at 5.30pm by a match between Tigers Academy and England Academy Under-19s.
With a big crowd and neighbours Leicester City kicking-off their final game of the season at 12.45pm, supporters are advised to make allowances for heavier traffic and demand for car-parking than usual and allow extra time for their journey.
If you have match tickets to collect – or wish to buy tickets for next Saturday’s Aviva Premiership semi-final at Welford Road – please come to the stadium as early as possible. The ticket office is open from 9am. Season ticket renewals are also available inside the stadium this week.
Leicester Tigers (v London Irish, Welford Road, Saturday 3pm)
15 Scott Hamilton
14 Matt Smith
13 Manu Tuilagi
12 Anthony Allen
11 Alesana Tuilagi
10 Toby Flood
9 Ben Youngs
1 Marcos Ayerza
2 George Chuter
3 Martin Castrogiovanni
4 Ed Slater
5 George Skivington
6 Tom Croft
7 Craig Newby (c)
8 Thomas Waldrom
Replacements
16 Rob Hawkins
17 Boris Stankovich
18 Dan Cole
19 Steve Mafi
20 Ben Woods
21 James Grindal
22 Jeremy Staunton
23 Horacio Agulla
London Irish include Tom Homer at full-back in place of the suspended Delon Armitage, while Jonathan Joseph replaces Elvis Seveali’i at centre and Richard Thorpe starts at No8.
London Irish: 15 Tom Homer, 14 Topsy Ojo, 13 Jonathan Joseph, 12 Seilala Mapusua, 11 Adam Thompstone, 10 Dan Bowden, 9 Paul Hodgson; 1 Clarke Dermody* (c), 2 David Paice, 3 Faan Rautenbach, 4 Nick Kennedy, 5 Bob Casey, 6 Jamie Gibson, 7 Steffon Armitage, 8 Richard Thorpe. Replacements: 16 James Buckland, 17 Alex Corbisiero, 18 Max Lahiff, 19 Gary Johnson, 20 Chris Hala’ufia, 21 Elvis Seveali’i, 22 Chris Malone, 23 Darren Allinson
