Roy McFarland may use John Taylor up front against Millwall tomorrow after all, according to the Cambridge Evening News which reports that the manager 'sounded less definite about leaving the 35-year-old striker out than he did immediately after the Bury game'.

Options to partner Trevor Benjamin include strikers Michael Kyd and Zema Abbey who were on the bench at Bury, and Abbey made a late debut when he replaced Mustoe, while striker Tom Youngs is currently playing out of position as a wide midfielder and performing well. A lot could depend on how much McFarland needs to reshuffle his midfield, with the in-form Neil Mustoe having intensive treatment on his ankle after taking a heavy knock during Tuesday's win at Bury.

"We'll give Muzzy as long as we can," McFarland told the CEN. "His ankle really swelled up at half time at Bury and he did well to play on. We are trying to get the swelling down with hot and cold water treatment and we'll be having a look at him tomorrow morning. It would be a blow to lose him because he's playing his best football at the moment. I had another manager ring up this week, not inquiring to buy, but just to say how impressed he was with him."

Ian Ashbee was restricted to the bench for the match at Bury, missing his only match of the season apart from the AWS game against Barnet, and he and Neil Mackenzie would be in line to replace Mustoe if he fails to recover sufficiently. Mackenzie played for the reserves in their 5-1 win against Gillingham at the Abbey on Wednesday and scored twice in an excellent performance.

This is United's second chance in a week to claim back-to-back wins and McFarland says he and his men are determined to make up for last week's disappointment when they failed to beat fellow strugglers Blackpool after winning away at Notts County on Tuesday.

McFarland commented, "We all know we let our fans down last week, but the Bury win gave us another boost, and this time we are determined to put on a good home performance. I think we've been a bit too gung ho at home and, without being negative, we have to have a bit more patience and play with more control.

"Millwall are going for promotion and are a good side, so there won't be any question of taking them a bit lightly, which may have been a factor to some extent against Blackpool."

Fourth-placed Millwall have their own selection problems as they aim to improve on recent away form, having lost to struggling Reading and Chesterfield. Strikers Neil Harris - formerly of Cambridge City - and Richard Sadlier are both suspended, while there are injury doubts over Paul Moody and Paul Shaw. In addition, skipper and key centre-back Stuart Nethercott will miss out after suffering a head injury which needed 15 stitches in last week's 3-1 home win over Bournemouth.