INJURY-RAVAGED Yeovil will be out to avoid equalling an unwanted club record at York City tonight.

Since gaining promotion to the Football League in 2003, the Glovers' longest run of consecutive defeats stands at six and, taking into account last season's final two fixtures, Paul Sturrock's men are currently one short of that mark.

The Somerset side have opened their campaign with a hat-trick of losses, starting out with a 3-2 loss at derby rivals Exeter and then going down in back-to-back home defeats to QPR (0-3) and Bristol Rovers (0-1).

That follows on from beatings against MK Dons (1-5) and Port Vale (1-2) on their way to finishing nine points adrift at the bottom of the Sky Bet League One table last term.

Yeovil have also only won one and lost 11 of their last 14 fixtures on the road.

Their sole triumph on their travels so far in 2015 came during a surprise 1-0 triumph at Swindon in April.

Sturrock applied major surgery to the squad over the summer bringing in 17 new signings with only four members of last season's squad - ex-Minsterman loanee Artur Krysiak, Nathan Smith, Jakub Sokolik and Stephen Arthurworrey - starting Saturday's defeat to Bristol Rovers.

His options have been restricted, though, by an over-crowded treatment room with seven players currently crocked.

Midfielder Matty Dolan's 65th-minute red card for two bookable offences against the Pirates, meanwhile, means the visitors will be without his services at Bootham Crescent in an area of the team that has been decimated most.

Dolan's fellow midfielders Marc Laird, Kevin Dawson, Simon Gillett and Jordan Gibbons remain on the sidelines, while newly-appointed captain Ryan Dickson, Ben Tozer and Omar Sowumni are missing from defence.

His reduced roster meant Sturrock was only able to name five substitutes at the weekend and that figure could not be lower due to Dolan's one-match suspension.

Winger Jack Compton was one of those on the bench but he has not played for five weeks, himself, following a calf problem.

Injuries have also seen Sturrock rely on three under-21 players in his back four - Sokolik (21), Arthurworrey (20) and Curtis Roberts (19) - while the former Plymouth and Southend chief will be pondering whether to start with a 4-4-2 formation or match up this evening's hosts with the 3-5-2 system he switched to for Saturday's second half.

Yeovil (probable): Krysiak, Roberts, Arthurworrey, Sokolik, Smith, Cornick, Jeffers, Lacey, Fogden, Bird Beck.