Fleetwood boss set to pick familiar system

FLEETWOOD Town is unlikely to change its tried and tested ways at SportsDirect.com Park on Saturday.

Manager Graham Alexander has guided the newly-promoted club to second place in the league, higher than most neutrals expected.

A midweek setback against Morecambe in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy followed some tinkering to his line-up. Come the Oldham game — the first league meeting between the clubs — the visiting manager is likely to revert to a flat back four as he hunts a fourth win from six.

“We went with the three at the back system partly because of the personnel,” Alexander said after the Morecambe loss. “We wanted to look at something different. We just stopped doing the things that were

getting us success. It’s a little lesson for us.”

Fleetwood have recruited well since promotion. Up front, the arrival on a year-long loan of Crystal Palace’s ex-Swansea and Blackpool forward Stephen Dobbie is the most eye-catching and the Scot has already found the net against Orient.

Dobbie is battling for a starting spot up front with former Crawley man Jamie Proctor, who got three goals in his first three outings for Fleetwood.