Hastings United v Harrogate Town: match preview

A sell-out crowd of around 4,000 spectators is expected tonight for an FA Cup second round replay which is being screened live on ESPN.

Even more than an hour before kick-off, huge queues were forming outside the Pilot Field and now with half an hour to go before kick off, the ground is packed.

United make two changes from the side which began the 1-1 draw when the teams met in North Yorkshire on December 1.

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In come midfidlers Danny Ellis and Tom Vickers and out go the suspending Jamie Crellin and Dee Okojie who drops to the substitutes’ bench.

Goalkeeper Mat Armstrong-Ford passed a fitness test, while the likes of Elliott Cox and Jack Dixon have shaken off knocks.

Hastings United: Armstrong-Ford, Cox, Whitehead, Carey, Ray, Jirbandi, Ellis, Dixon, Vickers, Attwood, Goldsberg. Subs: Manning, Okojie, Richardson, Camara, Bachellier, Abbott, Winchester.

Referee: Mick Russell (St Albans).

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