LUKE James returns for Hartlepool United after a seven-game absence for their home game with Sheffield United.

A back problem has kept the teenager out of the side and he forms a three-man front line with Andy Monkhouse and Ryan Noble.

At the back, Peter Hartley starts after suffering a leg injury last week at Yeovil which, first feared, was a broken leg.

 

 

HARTLEPOOL UNITED: Flinders; Austin, Collins, Hartley, Horwood; Murray, Sweeney, Liddle; Monkhouse, James, Noble. Subs: Humphreys, Brown, Boyd, Baldwin, Rafferty (gk)

SHEFFIELD UNITED: Simonsen; Lowton, Doyle, Evans, Williamson, Collins, Cresswell, Macguire, McDonald, Quinn, Hill. Subs: Hoskins, Beattie, Howard, O’Halloran, Williams.

Referee: Carl Boyeson (Hull)