Midfielder James Daly has been dropped to the substitutes’ bench for today’s trip to Forest Green Rovers after sustaining an injury, according to Yeovil Town manager Mark Cooper.
The Glovers’ boss said the summer signing “took a really bad tackle” in the first half of the opening day draw with Hartlepool United which the boss did not want to aggravate.
Following today’s match, Yeovil host National League Premier Division new boys Brackley Town on Tuesday night followed by a visit to Braintree Town next weekend before facing Gateshead on August Bank Holiday Monday in Somerset.
Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Josh Perkins ahead of kick-off today, Cooper said: “James Daly took a really bad tackle in the first half last Saturday and is probably not quite 100%, so with the amount of games we have coming up in the next week to ten days we wanted to make sure we did not aggravate it too much today so we put him on the bench.”
The Glovers are expected to line-up with four defenders, Byron Pendleton, captain Jake Wannell, Morgan Williams and Alex Whittle, behind two holding midfielders in Finn Cousin-Dawson and Charlie Cooper. In front of them is Tahvon Campbell, who replaces Daly in the only change from the opening day, Luke McCormick and Josh Sims behind frontman Aaron Jarvis.
Asked whether there was a possibility of defender Kyle Ferguson, who is named among the substitutes starting today, Cooper added: “I feel the other three defenders have been pretty solid in pre-season and it is important that the back three and the two midfield players are really solid. They have not really done anything wrong, but we have four games in the next nine days so I am sure they are going to feature.
“We were always going to have a small squad because of what we are financially, if we have to we might have to get a couple of loans to bulk the squad out because that is where we are at the minute.“
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