PLYMOUTH are expected to welcome back centre-halves Curtis Nelson and Peter Hartley for tomorrow’s Sky Bet League Two clash at York City.

Skipper Nelson and Hartley have missed the last three matches with their respective elbow and hip injuries but resumed training this week and are set for recalls.

Their likely returns are vital with their 19-year-old understudy Aaron Bentley ruled out after being sent off in Sunday’s 2-1 home defeat to Oxford for a two-footed tackle.

He will start a three-match suspension against the Minstermen.

Argyle boss John Sheridan has no other injury concerns but his seventh- placed side will kick off 2015 looking to improve on an away record that has seen them manage just one win in their last seven matches on the road – a 3-2 triumph at Northampton last month.

The Pilrgims have netted just eight league goals on their travels which, aside from Portsmouth and Mansfield, who have both only managed six, is the lowest haul in the division.

In fact, Sheridan’s side have only hit the target in three of their last nine away games, although the ex-Sheffield Wednesday and Republic of Ireland international can call on the services of one of League Two’s most potent strikeforces.

Reuben Reid (13) and Lewis Alessandra (eight) have plundered 21 goals between them this term.

At the other end of the pitch, despite a run of one clean sheet in six matches, Plymouth’s goals-conceded record of 17 can only be bettered by table- topping Shrewsbury, who have let in two fewer than the Devon outfit.

Having suffered back-to-back defeats against Oxford and Newport, where they lost 2-0, the Green Army are still in a play-off position on goal difference and remain six points adrift of an automatic promotion place and a further point behind leaders Shrewsbury.

Plymouth: (probable) McCormick; Nelson, McHugh, Hartley; Mellor, B Reid, O’Connor, Cox, Kellett; R Reid, Alessandra