Andre Dozzell, Freddie Sears, Matthew Pennington and Gwion Edwards start for the Blues at Swansea City with Jonas Knudsen, Jon Nolan, Kayden Jackson and Jordan Graham dropping to the bench.
Goals from Gwion Edwards and Freddie Sears have given Town a 2-1 half-time lead over Swansea, the home side having gone in front early on via a Cole Skuse own goal.
On-loan Blues forward Kyle Edwards is facing “a little while” on the sidelines, according to Oxford United manager Liam Manning, having suffered a hamstring injury in training.
Town s U18s moved to the top of the Professional Development League Two South table with a comfortable 5-0 victory against Bristol City at Playford Road on Saturday morning. Zak Brown (pictured) continued his rich vein of goalscoring form by netting twice, while the other goals came from Bailey Clements, Luca Vega and an own goal.
Town manager Kieran McKenna will name the usual much-changed side for this evening’s second Papa Johns Trophy tie of the season at home to Arsenal’s U21s.