Town have made five changes for this evening’s restaging of September’s abandoned match at Blackburn Rovers.

Into the team come Ashley Young, Kasey McAteer, Chuba Akpom, Jack Clarke, making his 50th league appearance for the Blues, and Ivan Azon with Darnell Furlong, Sindre Walle Egeli, Marcelino Nunez, Jaden Philogene and George Hirst all dropping to the bench.

Jacob Greaves, sent off in the fixture curtailed in the 80th minute due to a waterlogged pitch, is also among the subs, as is Jens Cajuste, back in the 20-man squad following his ankle injury with Cameron Humphreys missing out.

Blackburn name an unchanged team from Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Wrexham but with club captain Todd Cantwell, who scored the only goal from the penalty spot in the first staging of the game, back on the bench after a knee injury.

Blackburn: Pears, Alebiosu, Miller, McLoughlin (c), Pratt, Hedges, Forshaw, Gardner-Hickman, Morishita, Ohashi, Gudjohnsen. Subs: Michalski, Ribeiro, Tavares, Gueye, Cantwell, De Neve, Henriksson, Baradji, Atcheson.

Town: Walton, Young, O’Shea (c), Kipre, Davis, Matusiwa, Taylor, McAteer, Akpom, J Clarke, Azon. Subs: Button, Furlong, Johnson, Greaves, Cajuste, Nunez, Walle Egeli, Philogene, Hirst. Referee: Oliver Langford (West Midlands).

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