LIAM ROBERTS and Sonny Finch will make their senior Middlesbrough debuts in this evening's Carabao Cup first-round game against Barnsley.

Chris Wilder has made eight changes from the side that started Saturday's 3-2 defeat at QPR.

Roberts replaces Zack Steffen in goal, and will make his first competitive Boro appearance following his summer move from Northampton.

Paddy McNair and Dael Fry return to the back three, with Tommy Smith and Marc Bola expected to fill the wing-back berths.

Boro will start with an inexperienced midfield, with Hayden Hackney, Joe Gibson and Caolan Boyd-Munce set to play in the central area.

Finch will make his first Boro start in attack, partnering Duncan Watmore, with Marcus Forss and Chuba Akpom both named on the substitutes' bench.


MIDDLESBROUGH (3-5-2): Roberts; Dijksteel, Fry, McNair; Smith, Gibson, Hackney, Boyd-Munce, Bola; Watmore, Finch.

Subs: Daniels, Forss, Akpom, Bilongo, Dodds, Fletcher, Kavanagh, Conteh, Sivi. 

BARNSLEY (3-4-3): Walton; McCarthy, Andersen, Helliwell; Cundy, Styles, Connell, Odour; Marsh, Aitchinson, Cole.

Subs: Collins, Kitching, Benson, Iseka, Moon, Thomas, Ackroyd, Hondermarck, Jalo.