Wycombe v Colchester preview
Friday 12 January 2018 14:19, UK
Wycombe welcome Colchester to Adams Park for their first home league game of 2018.
Skipper Adam El-Abd, who was out with a calf injury, is likely to be in the squad after making his comeback last Saturday. Scott Kashket also returned to the side last weekend after recovering from a pelvis injury, and is expected to be available this weekend.
However, Michael Harriman is still out with a broken leg. Defenders Sido Jombati (knee) and Anthony Stewart (calf) are also unavailable after missing Wycombe's last game.
Colchester will be missing midfielder Kyel Reid for the Sky Bet League Two visit of Wycombe after the end of his loan spell. He was shown a straight red card after raising a hand towards Cheltenham's Joe Morrell late in the first-half of last weekend's 4-1 defeat, so starts a three-match ban back at his parent club Coventry.
Club captain Luke Prosser and winger Brennan Dickenson have stepped up their rehabilitation from respective knee problems. U's defender Lewis Kinsella has joined Aldershot on loan until the start of February, while midfielder Courtney Senior (knee) remains sidelined.
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Wycombe's 2-1 win at Colchester earlier this season was their first against the U's in the league since October 2002, ending a run of nine Football League encounters without victory against them (D6 L3).
Colchester haven't lost an away game against the Chairboys in any competition since April 2000 (3-0 in the third-tier). They have won three and drawn six visits since then, although one of those stalemates, 3-3 in the League Cup in August 2011, did end with their elimination from the competition on penalties.
Wycombe have only lost one of their last nine home league games (W6 D2), although that sole defeat did come last time out at Adams Park, losing 2-1 to Mansfield.
By contrast, The U's have only lost one of their last nine away games in League Two (W5 D3), keeping back-to-back clean sheets in the last two on their travels. They have not kept three successive clean sheets on the road since December 2016.
