OXFORD United will make changes for tomorrow’s Carabao Cup tie with Swansea City, says Karl Robinson.

The U’s welcome Sky Bet Championship opposition to the Kassam Stadium in the first round of this season’s competition.

United got off the mark in Sky Bet League One with a dramatic weekend win over Cambridge United and they are back in third-tier action at Bristol Rovers this Saturday.

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It is an early kick-off at the Memorial Stadium and Robinson revealed that will be a factor when he selects tomorrow’s line-up.

United's head coach said: “With the kick-off being 12.30 on Saturday there will be a lot of changes.

“Some players are going to be given an opportunity and then we’ll take stock from a physical point of view.

“We had a meeting at 7.30 this morning to go through the physical data from Saturday. Who’s high risk, where do we have cover - just to make sure we protect the players in the positions we don’t have cover.

“You can never say 100 per cent you’re not going to get any kicks, but we feel the preparations will be fine leading up to the game.”

After the win over Cambridge, Robinson hinted at ‘trying something’ in defence against Swansea.

While reluctant to give too much information, the U’s boss revealed it involved one of the club’s youngsters.

He said: “There’s something we’ve seen with one of our young players.

“He’s got a tremendous future and we’ve got to wait and see what happens with that tomorrow.”

As of this morning, United had not heard back from the striker they are targeting to bolster their options up front.

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Matty Taylor is the U’s only fit, senior centre forward, while teenager Gatlin O’Donkor is injured and Slavi Spasov is expected to go out on loan.

Former U’s loanee Jerome Sinclair has been on trial with the club this summer and Robinson suggested the door is not completely closed on a return for the striker.

He said: “We had a conversation with him, right now there might be nothing there.

“Me and him will have another conversation this week.”