Familiar faces face off in Home Park dugoutspublished at 12:11 GMT
Plymouth v Luton (12:30 GMT)
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Tom Cleverley prepares to go head to head with ex-England team mate Jack Wilshere
Thirteen years ago, Tom Cleverley and Jack Wilshere were lining up for England in a friendly against Brazil at Wembley.
Today, having come up against one another multiple times in the Premier League, they’ll watch their sides take on one another from opposing dugouts for the first time as Cleverley’s Plymouth take on Wilshere’s Hatters in Devon.
Six points and seven places separate these two in the League One table, and for the visitors, a chance to climb back into the play-off places is up for grabs this lunchtime.
Six wins and five draws from 15 games since Wilshere took charge have seen Luton back in the hunt for promotion in a congested third tier table, but they’ll need to avoid a third successive away defeats at this level for the first time since 2018 if they are to keep pace with those ahead today.
The hosts take on their fourth most-played opponents at league level today, and come into this one unbeaten in their last four against the Hatters, but there haven’t been a lot of Home (Park) comforts to speak off so far this campaign.
The Pilgrims have only won successive games in front of their own faithful once this season, and only rock-bottom club Port Vale have a worse home record.
It will be all handshakes and smiles pre-kick off between these two former team-mates, but there’ll be plenty at stake when the whistle blows at 12:30.
