The first half line-up will see Marek Stech in goal, Frankie Musonda, Matty Pearson, Alan Sheehan and James Justin across the back four with Alan McCormack, Arthur Read, Pelly-Ruddock Mpanzu and Elliot Lee in midfield and Danny Hylton and James Collins up front.

After the break, James Shea will take over between the sticks with Jack Stacey, Lloyd Jones, Sonny Bradley and Jack Senior at the back. Glen Rea, Luke Gambin and Andrew Shinnie will make up a three-man midfield, with Harry Cornick and Aaron Jarvis either side of Jake Jervis up front.

Jack James, who had a youth loan at Top Field last season, will be substitute in both halves against a Hitchin side featyuring former Hatters Matthew Spring, Charlie Smith, Isaac Galliford and Scott Belgrove.

TOWN 1st HALF: Stech, Musonda, Pearson, Sheehan, Justin, McCormack, Read, Mpanzu, Lee. Sub: James

2nd HALF: Shea, Stacey, Jones, Bradley, Senior, Rea, Gambin, Shinnie, Cornick, Jarvis, Jervis. Sub: James

REFEREE: Alan Dale