One change is enforced, with James Shea coming back in for Simon Sluga, who did not travel north with the squad due to illness.

Elsewhere Carlos Mendes Gomes makes only his second league start supporting Elijah Adebayo in an attacking role.

Allan Campbell and Henri Lansbury are brought back into midfield and Reece Burke comes in for Tom Lockyer to make up the fifth change.

Town: Shea; Bree, Burke, Bradley, Naismith, Bell; Campbell, Lansbury; Clark, Mendes Gomes; Adebayo.

Substitutes: Isted, Hylton, Mpanzu, Pereira, Onyedinma, Muskwe, Osho.

Blackpool: Maxwell; Sterling, Ekpiteta, Husband, James, Wintle; Dougall, Mitchell, Anderson; Dale, Yates.

Substitutes: Grimshaw, Gabriel, Connolly, Keogh, Carey, Bowler, Lavery.

Referee: Peter Bankes