Six changes as Fitzpatrick makes full debut for Stags against Pompey

Also coming in were keeper Lenny Pidgeley, full-backs Callum Elder and Liam Marsden, and strike pair Rakish Bingham and Matt Rhead.

Out from the side that lost 3-2 at Cambridge last weekend went Sasha Studer, Ricky Ravenhill, Lee Beevers, Vadaine Oliver, Michael Raynes and Terry Hawkridge.

Young defender Corbin Shires was also included among the substitutes.

STAGS: Pidgeley; Marsden, Sutton, Tafazolli, Elder; Thomas, Clements, Fitzpatrick, Brown; Bingham, Rhead. Subs: Studer, Hearn, Shires, McGuire, Lambe, Oliver, Heslop.

PORTSMOUTH: Jones, Webster, Devera, Wallace, Ertl, Tubbs, Westcarr, Dunne, Hollands, Close, Butler. Subs: Poker, McCallam, Shorey, Fogden, Atangana, May, Chaplin.
REFEREE: Graham Horwood of Luton.