Danny Simpson is ready to fight for his Leicester City future after being given a rare chance to impress by Claude Puel.

A key player in Leicester’s Premier League title win, Simpson is in line to face Southampton in the Carabao Cup in his first start of the season on Tuesday night.

The defender had been frozen out by Puel but is earning a reprieve after Daniel Amartey was ruled out until next year with an ankle injury.

Puel is set to make a number of changes for the visit of his former club Southampton, and it is understood Simpson will make his first start since the final day of last season.

The 31-year-old will be a free agent at the end of this campaign and was a loan target for Championship clubs Nottingham Forest and Stoke earlier in the season.