The City postponement gave him the chance to field his strongest available side ... but he won't be going down that avenue.
Gus Poyet: “I was looking forward to giving a few players opportunities and that will not change.
"We have a few players who need to play and deserve to play, but for different reasons, they haven’t been able to.
“I’m talking about players like (Emmanuele) Giaccherini and Scocco. They both need minutes, so we’re going to use that game for this.
“But it will all be first-team players, we will not be taking the game lightly. I hope that we win it so we don’t have to play a replay.”