SWINDON Town will be without Alan McCormack and Tommy Miller for the visit of Sheffield United on Tuesday night.

McCormack is still struggling with a hamstring injury while Miller has yet to recover from a dead leg and both will miss the clash with the Blades.

Federico Bessone is will also be absent with a calf problem, while Alan Navarro continues his rehabilitation from medial ligament damage.

Aden Flint is suspended and Troy Archibald-Henville is dealing with the aftermath of the cramp which he suffered from during the defeat to Macclesfield on Saturday.

Louis Thompson is likely to make his full debut for the Robins. 

John Bostock is back at parent club Tottenham as he rehabilitates after a groin injury, while Giles Coke is getting treatment on his foot problem at Sheffield Wednesday.

Manager Paolo Di Canio said: “We have many injuries so it’s the same situation. We do not have a magic stick to let people improve in two days so we have the same situation.

“We’re going to handle the situation as much as we can, we will do our best and see what’s going on.

“I hope for the next two or three weeks I can recover some players because it’s true we have to maintain the league but I would like to maintain the league well and in a comfortable way.

“We know we have two games and then we have a long week, probably two long weeks to give us the chance to recover players - if we don’t have other injuries - and make a good job, a sort of mini pre-season that gives us a chance in January and February to fly.”

Meanwhile, Di Canio claimed that his early-morning training call on Sunday had been a success.

The Italian had summoned his players to Liddington for 7.30am as a punishment for their miserable performance against Macclesfield.

“I am a different manager. I don’t lead a group of Barcelona players who would batter themselves or hammer themselves if they lose,” he said.

“They are silly sometimes. Just because I want to change this aspect we have to pay the price.

“It’s obvious I am the guide of this group and I got up earlier than them. It was dark and raining a lot on Sunday morning and we have to pay the price.

“If I force the situation it’s difficult to have a good answer, not because of my players but because of the generation in general - they don’t care.

“I try to persuade and encourage them.

“To reach a good stage in the future sometimes you have to go in a different direction and sometimes that direction is punishment. I don’t see why in modern life the youngest can only be praised because it is convenient.

“That should be normal. In a normal social life, if you do something good it should be normal. And the people are praised in some way.

“Okay, if you do special things I praise you but don’t tell you off if you do something wrong.

“They have to realise they have a big privilege to be footballers - to earn seven, eight or 10 or 12 grand per month.

“People get up every day at five o’clock in the morning for £900. We have to remind them. Sometimes the people forget even if they have parents who have got up at five o’clock in the morning for 30 years.”