Cheltenham Town vs Exeter City preview - Brown misses Grecians clash

Cheltenham will be without defender Troy Brown as they look to climb out of the relegation zone when Exeter visit.

The centre-back picked up his 10th yellow card of the campaign in Tuesday's 2-2 draw with Portsmouth and will now serve the first of his two-game suspension against Paul Tisdale's troops.

But there is better news for Russell Milton with two of their star performers recently, Will Packwood and Wes Burns, likely to be given the green light to feature after recent knocks.

Captain Matt Taylor was just a substitute versus Pompey but is likely to be given the nod in Brown's absence.

Exeter look set to be without their two experienced left-backs.

Jamie McAllister and Craig Woodman have missed City's last two matches with hamstring injuries and Connor Riley-Lowe is on standby to make his third successive start if neither are available.

Winger Lee Holmes made a lively debut from the bench in Tuesday's 0-0 draw with Stevenage and the Preston loanee could be thrown into the starting line-up at Whaddon Road.

The Grecians remain without long-term injury victim Pat Baldwin while David Noble's hamstring problem rules him out once more.