Town boss Paul Lambert has made three changes for this evening’s home game against bottom club Burton Albion with Oli Hawkins, Emyr Huws and Keanan Bennetts coming into the team for Jack Lankester, Armando Dobra and Jon Nolan.

Nolan suffered an injury in Saturday’s 2-0 defeat to Portsmouth, while Lankester and Dobra drop to the bench.

The Blues could line-up in two ways, either with Jackson and Bennetts as the wide players and Hawkins the central striker or with Jackson joining the former Pompey man in a two-man attack, which would be a departure from Lambert’s consistent variations on 4-3-3 utilised this season.

Burton make two changes from the team which drew 1-1 away against the MK Dons on Saturday with John-Joe O'Toole in for the suspended Stephen Quinn and Niall Ennis replacing Ciaran Gilligan, who is among the subs.

Town: Cornell, Chambers, Woolfenden, McGuinness, Ward, Dozzell, Huws, Judge, Bennetts, Jackson, Hawkins. Subs: Holy, Nsiala, Kenlock, McGavin, Dobra, Lankester, Drinan.

Burton: O’Hara, Brayford, Daniel, Edwards, Bostwick, Powell, Akins, Vernam, O’Toole, Hughes, Ennis. Subs: Garratt, Wallace, Lawless, Fox, Vassilev, Gallacher, Gilligan. Referee: Darren Bond (Lancashire).

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heathen66 added 19:17 - Dec 15 Could line up 4-4-2...lets hope so and not deploy Jackson out wide. Burton are bottom and we really should be 'going for it !!! Just defend properly (full backs) and we we certainly have enough to win COYB !!!
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RobsonWark added 19:22 - Dec 15 OMG Captain Fantastic is in the team again! I'm undecided whether I want to pay my £10 to watch now. Q. How come he never gets injured! A. Because he never marks anyone so avoids any physical contact.
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Dockerblue added 19:23 - Dec 15 What happened to the shirt is yours to lose? Dobra MOTM Saturday but dropped, Bennets offers nothing, Judge may as well stay at home and where,s Drinan? You are a tool Lambert!
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jas0999 added 19:27 - Dec 15 Should be a straight forward win tonight. More interested in Saturdays tougher game.
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Northstandveteran added 19:27 - Dec 15 Currently 7th in the table behind the mighty Accrington who have two games in hand on us. Blue Army!
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Karlosfandangal added 19:32 - Dec 15 To be honest he could play 10 up front..... still not paying a tenner to watch them.....Nativity with Martin Freeman is on Netflix which will be far more entertaining. You want things to change people match with your feet....but there will be 2000 people there tonight. If no one turned up the message would get across
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masetheace added 19:34 - Dec 15 Here we go again - whinging before a ball is kicked . Guess you belong to the Action Group
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stiffy501 added 19:36 - Dec 15 Just a subject to ponder, ITFC players out of contract June 2021 Judge Edwards Bishop Jackson Ward Chambers Nsiala Nydam Skuse Sears Huws Donacien Wilson Drinan Wright (Info according to Web) So question is who would you want to give another contract to ?
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Razor added 19:39 - Dec 15 To be fair happy with changes and he must go 2 up front----gives us a chance----against the bottom team !!
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Letchworth_Blue added 19:41 - Dec 15 I'll have a pint of whatever Jas is drinking!.....when was our last straight forward win???
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TimmyH added 19:46 - Dec 15 Jackson and Hawkins look a better bet upfront...as said only a win for this match will do and with a good performance!
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midastouch added 20:42 - Dec 15 @stiffy501, not many of them!
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midastouch added 20:45 - Dec 15 It doesn't matter which way Lambert shuffles the pack, we've not looked convincing since we beat Blackpool. Even if we beat Burton (and that's an if!) it still doesn't solve the problem of us being able to beat any of the better sides in this division (not that it's a particularly strong division this year!) as usually whenever we run up against somebody higher up the table we come up short. Nothing is going to change until we solve that conundrum and Lambert isn't the man to do so.

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