The reserve team play their penultimate away game of the season at Portsmouth tonight (kick-off 7pm) and the team will include two 21-year-old trialists. Right-back John Kennedy was born in Newmarket and is currently on the books of Ipswich Town, while midfielder Daniel Grieves was with Watford until last season, since when he has been playing in Israel.

Grieves has been training with the Us for several weeks and started for the reserves against Millwall last month, but referee Mr Baker who saw fit to dismiss three players and wreck Grieves' trial by sending him off for a non-existent elbowing offence after 23 minutes.

Cambridge United: Arjan Van Heusden, John Kennedy, Matthew Haniver, Daniel Grieves, Adam Tann, Darren Howe, Andrew Ingham, Nathan Lamey, Daniel Chillingworth, Zema Abbey, Mark Gibson.
Subs: Leighton Hill, Kevin Martin, Owen Paynter, Duncan Lockhart, Alex Revell.