JORDAN Lyden is touch and go to appear against Forest Green Rovers at the New Lawn on Saturday, with Swindon Town manager Richie Wellens likely to make a final call ahead of training on Friday morning.

Lyden was ruled out of Saturday’s visit of Oldham, though his injured status was only revealed an hour before kick-off with Town boss Wellens keen to not grant the Latics any insight on the hosts’ tweaked style of play.

The 23-year-old spent time with the club’s physio on Wednesday morning, and his full condition was assessed afterwards.

But the Australian-raised midfielder’s inclusion during Friday morning’s pre-match training session is likely to sway the 39-year-old’s selection opinion.

He explained: “If he (Jordan Lyden) training on Friday, he has a chance. If he doesn’t then because of the amount of game we’ve got coming up, there will be no point us risking him.”

Wellens reported a clean bill of health from Town’s Beversbrook Sports Facility training base.

Keshi Anderson’s muscle injury has been managed and he could well feature for at least an hour in Nailsworth at the weekend.

Meanwhile, Lloyd Isgrove was one of several players in need of minutes during a behind-closed-doors friendly against Bristol City on Wednesday afternoon.

Anderson’s didn’t feature in that game, he instead training on the astro-turf ahead of the Football League’s traditionally busy festive period.

For Swindon, four games will be played in a 10-day period – all four games will be played against top half teams (Cambridge, Port Vale, Plymouth and Bradford).

Concerningly, the club this season registered only six points from 10 games against current top half teams.

Therefore, a chance to lay a serious promotion marker down presents itself to Town’s squad over Christmas – that’s if seven wins on the spin hasn’t already, of course.

Wellens added: “You can’t map anything out after the 29th (away to Port Vale) because you just don’t know what is going to happen.

“We’ll need to change the team – especially from Boxing Day to the 29th to New Year’s Day. There is hardly any recovery in that period.

“I want players to be hungry to try and fight for a place.”