Tom Flanagan has been handed the captain’s armband for tonight’s friendly between a MK Dons XI and a Tottenham Hotspur XI.
Tom Flanagan has been handed the captain’s armband for tonight’s friendly between a MK Dons XI and a Tottenham Hotspur XI.
Flanagan will start at centre-back tonight alongside Jon Otsemobor, who has missed most of pre-season with a knee injury, George Baldock at right-back and second-year scholar Brendan Galloway at left-back. Ian McLoughlin is given a start in goal.
Elsewhere, Dele Alli and Ben Reeves will be the Dons’ central-midfield pairing behind an attacking trio which contains trialist Zavon Hines, formerly of West Ham United and Bradford City, Will Summerfield and Under-16 star Giorgio Rasulo while Patrick Bamford is given the nod up front as he continues his recovery from an ankle injury sustained in Ireland.
Robinson has also named seven youth-team players on the bench, two of which are first-year scholars. The seven youngsters are Charlie Burns, Ben Grant, Kelvin Osei-Addo, Jon Osae, Kyran Wiltshire, Aaran Weston and Luke Tingey.
MK Dons XI (4-2-3-1): McLoughlin; Baldock, Otsemobor, Flanagan (c), Galloway; Alli, Reeves; Summerfield, Rasulo, Hines; Bamford.
Burns (GK), Grant, Osei-Addo, Osae, Wiltshire, Weston, Tingey.Subs:
Miles; Fredericks, Ward, Bentaleb, Livermore, Stewart (c), Townsend, Carroll, Lancaster, Falque, Ceballos.Tottenham Hotspur XI:
Archer (GK), Coulthirst, McEvoy, Gallifuoco, Lameiras.Subs:
Keith Stroud (Dorset)Referee:
