Ben Johnson is the only new signing starting for the Blues in their opening pre-season friendly against Shakhtar Donetsk at Sportzentrum Landskron in Villach this afternoon.
The match is now a single game played over 90 minutes rather than the previously advertised two 60-minute games.
Johnson is at right-back with Leif Davis on the left and Luke Woolfenden and Cameron Burgess the centre-halves. Christian Walton is in goal.
Skipper Sam Morsy is partnered by Jack Taylor in the centre of midfield with Wes Burns, Conor Chaplin and Marcus Harness behind main striker George Hirst.
Jacob Greaves and Liam Delap are on the bench, but fellow summer signings Omari Hutchinson and Aro Muric are absent from the matchday squad but at the ground having been with the party for this week’s Carinithian training camp.
Youngsters Ryan Carr, Leon Ayinde, Finley Barbrook, Osman Foyo and Jesse Nwabueze are among the subs
Town: Walton, Davis, Morsy, Woolfenden, Burns, Chaplin, Harness, Taylor, Burgess, Johnson, Hirst. Subs: Edmundson, Delap, Ladapo, Slicker, Greaves, Luongo, Baggott, Carr, Ayinde, F Barbrook, Foyo, Nwabueze.
Shakhtar: Riznyk, Traore, Bondar, Sudakov, Zubkov, Azarov, Vinicius, Bondarenko, Matviienko (c), Marlon, Kevin. Subs: Bahlai, Tvardovskyi, Stepanenko, Eguinaldo, Shved, Ghram, Hlushchenko, Pedro, Faryna, Nazaryna, Kozik, Savchenko, Pedrinho, Newertton, Franjic, Latsabidze.