After playing the Blue Square Premier leaders Aldershot last weekend and knocking them out of the FA Cup, United welcome struggling Northwich Victoria to the Abbey.

Team News

There will be at least two changes to a winning side as Dan Gleeson serves a one match suspension tomorrow after accruing five yellow cards and Mark Albrighton definitely misses out after having stitches in a deep gash in his leg during last week's win.

Quinn is also without injured players Darren Quinton, Danny Brown and Dan Chillingworth, but midfielder Mark Convery has been back in training for over a week and he looks set to return to the side.

Versatile midfielder Stephen Reed could switch to Gleeson's usual role on the right to cause minimum disruption to the side, with Convery slotting straight into the centre of midfield, although Quinn was keeping his cards close to his chest about his precise plans.

"I'll have to shuffle the pack a little bit and there's every chance that Mark will be included," he confirmed. "He was chomping at the bit to get on the bench last weekend but we held him back because he wanted to come back too early last time and he broke down again.

"But he's trained very hard this week and he's in contention again."

Quinn confirmed that Gavin Hoyte will deputise for Albrighton after coming off the bench for him last week and putting in an impressive performance after a frustrating time on the sidelines: "He did very well when he came on last week.

"He's a good player and it shows you how well the other three defenders have been playing that he's had to sit on the bench and wait for his chance again.

"He knows how well the other lads have defended and now he's back in the team he'll want to stay there."

Tomorrow is the final game of Darryl Knights' one month loan from Yeovil, and although it had been agreed that he could stay for another month, injuries at Yeovil mean that Russell Slade will make a final decision about extending the loan after tomorrow's matches.

The Opposition

The Vics have not won a game all season and have lost all nine games on the road so United are odds on favourites with official online betting partners bet365 to win tomorrow, but Quinn refuses to take anything for granted.

"You can treat a game like this two ways. You can worry that you'll be the first team they beat, or you can think about being positive and take the game to them and focus on what they're not good at. They have conceded the most goals in our league, which happens if you're a bit lacking in the defensive department, so we need to really get at them and produce quality and get as many crosses and shots in as possible.

"That's the recipe for winning any game of football so for me it's the same as any other game. We're at home with our fans behind us and we need to work hard and win every tackle and get as many efforts on goal as we can."

Quinn was manager of Northwich between 2001 and 2003 before taking over at Shrewsbury, and he is sorry to see them struggling both on and off the pitch, but he added, "There's no room for sentiment. As much as you don't like to see your old clubs in trouble, I'm the Cambridge United manager and I hope they sort their problems out but they won't be getting anything off me on Saturday.

"It's all about getting the three points to keep us in a good position in the league, and whether it's Northwich or anyone else we need to beat them. It will be a tough game and I will make the lads are focused on keeping a clean sheet and defending well, and we're definitely going out to try to win the game and score as many goals as we can.

"I'll be disappointed if we don't get a few goals and we don't want to be picking the papers up on Sunday seeing the headlines that Northwich got their first win away from home."

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