Leicester City take on Cardiff City on Saturday afternoon, a battle of two promotion hopefuls. Leicester are currently fifth while opponents Cardiff sit once place behind Leicester in sixth. Both sides lost their last matches, sofor Leicester and Cardiff theywill bothbe looking to bounce straight back from a dismal start to the Roberto Osuna Jersey month of March.THE TEAMSLeicester, were defeated against Sheffield Wednesday last Saturday, whichmarked the end of an eight match unbeaten streak. However some fans will be hoping that the so called Manager of the Month Curse (which Nigel Pearson claimed last Saturday) hasnt hit Leicester,becausethisis one ofthe most important months of theChampionship season. If the Foxes do have a blip in form it will undoubtedly affect their promotion chances, but yesterday they were able to sign Everton striker James Vaughan on a months loan to bolster their promotion charge. Hopefully for Leicester they can bounce straight back from defeat to Wednesdaywith a win over Cardiff tomorrow afternoon.Cardiff, are still hanging in and around the play-off places considering they have had a ma sive lapse of form. Manager Dave Jones is currently the longest serving bo s in the Coca Cola Championship; however he has always failed to help Cardiff City with promotion, considering they always start brilliantly to a new season. That bad run of games towardsthe end of a season has struck the Bluebirds yet again. As stats show it will be Jake Marisnick Jersey highly unlikely that Dave Jonessside will be finishing in the top six places of theChampionship under his guidance. Cardiff are a quality footballing side, but there squad is very low on numbers due to finicial problems at the club, if they were able to strengthen their Ryan Pressly Jersey squad, they would most likely be challenging the top three in my view.TEAM NEWSLeicester After suffering a facial injury against Sheffield Wednesday, first choice goalkeeper Chris Weale has been cla sed fit to play. Also for Leicester new signing James Vaughan could well be among the starting 11, while Leicesters physio has stated that Matty Fryatt could well be out for the remainder of this season.Cardiff Cardiff could well include key trio, Peter Whittingham, Mark Kennedy and Stephen McPhail, after allthree players have been out injured. Michael Chopra is suspended, while two other key a sets Joe Ledley and Mark Hudson are long term absentees.KEY PLAYERSLeicester Jack Hobbs. The Leicester defence has to be wary of Cardiffs attacking threat, and I think Jack Hobbs will be the man who can stop the Cardiff attack from scoring. The former Liverpool player was immense against Nottingham Forest, as his tackling ability was first cla s. He has to produce thesame heroics tomorrow.Cardiff Chris Burke. The Cardiff City winger of Chris Burke has been amazing for the Bluebirds this season. He is a tricky player to Jeff Bagwell Jersey contend with, as Ryan McGivern would know, as Burke tore Leicesters second choice left-back to pieces in the away fixture. Burke is a good player who can score goals aswell, it will most likely be Bruno Berner who occupys the Foxes left-back role, so he has to stop as many cro ses as he can or Burkes deliveries could prove to be dangerous.MATCH PREDICTIONIt could well be a close battle between two sides who are trying to gain promotion, its5th v 6th andboth sides will want the win. Leicester has a bigger squad than Cardiff and NigelPearsons sidehave le ser injury problems to contend with. If Cardiff can get Whittingham fit, he will play a vital role, however im hoping Carlos Beltran Jersey that new signing James Vaughan can musterup something special, Leicester 2-1 CardiffMATCH STATSKick Off 3.00pm, SaturdayDate 13/03/2010Ground Walkers StadiumManagers NigelPearson/Dave JonesOpinions Wanted Please