Leeds v Wigan

Wigan were dejected after their 12-10 Cup defeat at Headingley last May

Leeds winger Lee Smith is in the squad but still a doubt (hamstring).

Luke Burgess is out, but the Rhinos have Ian Kirke back after missing last Sunday’s 28-6 win at Wakefield.

Wigan, well beaten 24-6 by Warrington in last Friday night’s battle of the top two, have forward Joel Tomkins back after serving his two-match suspension.

But the champions are still without Pat Richards, now a fortnight away from a return, Paul Deacon, Stuart Fielden and Eamon O’Carroll.

Leeds and Wigan met five times in 2010, the Warriors just coming out on on top.

Wigan won both games in the regular Super League season either side of Leeds’ 12-10 dramatic Challenge Cup victory at a rain-lashed Headingley.

Leeds then levelled it up again when Kevin Sinfield kept his cool to win a controversial, hot-tempered clash 27-26 at the DW Stadium in the play-offs in September.

But Wigan had the final word a fortnight later when they eased home 26-6 to end Leeds’ hopes of a fourth successive Grand Final.

The Warriors have badly missed last season’s record-breaking points machine Richards, who limped out of their Grand Final win over St Helens a week later.

But Leeds are still hampered by the absence of Danny McGuire (injured in that 27-26 thriller at Wigan), Jamie Peacock, Brett Delaney, Ali Lauitiiti and Zak Hardaker.

Rhinos coach Brian McDermott told BBC Radio Leeds:

“Wigan are a good team. They’re a strong team. And we’ll need to be very, very good to get one over on them.

“They do lots of little things well for long periods of the game and for a lot of the game they’re very competitive so we’ll be tested on a lot of fronts.

“But on the back of last week, the fellas will go into this weekend’s game confident that we’ll compete.”

Leeds (from): Webb, Smith, Senior, Hall, Burrow, Leuluai, Buderus, Jones-Buchanan, Ablett, Sinfield, Cross, Bailey, Kirke, Watkins, Hauraki, Clarkson, Pitts, McShane, Singleton.

Wigan (from): S Tomkins, Goulding, Carmont, Leuluai, McIlorum, Coley, Hansen, J Tomkins, O’Loughlin, Prescott, Lima, Hoffman, Finch, Roberts, Mossop, Farrell, Tuson, Marsh, Charnley.