Town have named the expected fringe side for this evening’s Leasing.com Trophy group game at Colchester United with Brett McGavin handed his debut in midfield and striker Ben Folami also starting.

Tomas Holy returns in goal with Janoi Donacien at right-back, Myles Kenlock at left-back and Toto Nsiala and James Wilson the centre-halves.

Alongside McGavin, son of former U’s star Steve, in central midfield is Emyr Huws with Anthony Georgiou on the left and Gwion Edwards on the right and Idris El Mizouni likely to be playing just off striker
Folami.

On the bench are academy scholars Tommy Hughes, Kai Brown and Liam Gibbs, the latter pair in the first-team 18 for the first time.
Also among the subs is Tawanda Chirewa, a Shenfield schoolboy midfielder aged 16 years and 31 days with a Zimbabwean background.

The Colchester side includes former Blues Frank Nouble amd Omar Sowunmi, while Dean Gerken and Tom Eastman are on the bench.

Colchester: Ross, Lapslie, Prosser, Sowunmi, Senior, Pell, Norris, Brown, Sarpong-Wiredu, Clampin, Nouble. Subs: Gerken, Jackson, Bramall, Robinson, Eastman, Stevenson, Poku.

Town: Holy, Donacien, Wilson, Nsiala, Kenlock, Edwards, El Mizouni, McGavin, Huws, Georgiou, Folami. Subs: Norris, Rowe, Woolfenden, Hughes, K Brown, Gibbs, Chirewa. Referee: Sam Purkiss.

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