Fleetwood Town vs Leicester City LIVE: FA Cup third round!

Follow all the action from the third round tie at the Highbury Stadium

Leicester City and Fleetwood Town meet at Highbury Stadium (Getty Images)

Good morning and welcome to The Independent's live coverage of the FA Cup third round tie between Fleetwood Town and Leicester City.

The game has been dubbed the 'Jamie Vardy derby' given the England striker's rise from then-non league Fleetwood up to the Foxes before firing them to the Premier League title and Champions League football.

However, all those gathered at Highbury will have to settle for seeing him in the stands rather than on the pitch as injury has prevented manager Claude Puel from including Vardy in the squad altogether.

Vardy's absence won't stop us though, so stick with us for minute-by-minute updates and don't touch that dial!

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[6 January 2018 12:37 · Liam Corless]

We are just 10 minutes away from kick-off between Fleetwood and Leicester. Will Leicester join Manchester United and Liverpool in the fourth round or will Fleetwood produce a huge shock and dump the 2015-16 Premier League champions out of the competition? Stay tuned to find out!

[6 January 2018 12:41 · Liam Corless]

[6 January 2018 12:46 · Liam Corless]

1' ​- We are underway at Highbury Stadium!

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4' - Islam Slimani has an early chance for Leicester as he gets on the end of a Demarai Gray free-kick at the far post. However, the Algerian can't quite sort his feet out and he sends the ball wide.

[6 January 2018 12:56 · Liam Corless]

9' - Close! Aleksandar Dragovic's pass back to Eldin Jakupovic is dreadful and the goalkeeper has to dive backwards and claw the ball behind to prevent Leicester from going a goal down. 

For some reason the referee doesn't award an indirect free-kick and Fleetwood's corner comes to nothing.

That really would've been a comical own-goal.

[6 January 2018 12:57 · Liam Corless]

Leicester's Andy King dribbles with the ball 

[6 January 2018 13:00 · Liam Corless]

15' - Fleetwood make an early, injury-enforced substitution as Nathan Pond replaces Ashley Eastham.

[6 January 2018 13:06 · Liam Corless]

19' - We're approaching the 20-minute mark here and Fleetwood goalkeeper Chris Neal is yet to make a save. 

Eldin Jakupovic has been the busier of the two 'keepers, most notably diving to his left to prevent Aleksandar Dragovic from scoring an own-goal.

[6 January 2018 13:09 · Liam Corless]

23' - Big chance for Leicester.

Andy King rises highest to meet Demarai Gray's corner but heads the ball over from just six yards out. That should've been the game's opening goal.

[6 January 2018 13:10 · Liam Corless]

Yohan Benalouane challenges Devante Cole