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Nottingham Forest will make up to 10 changes for their Carabao Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town, but manager Mark Warburton is adamant he will not be fielding a weakened team.

Forest go into the first round tie at the City Ground fresh from the 1-0 win over Millwall in their first league game of the season.

Warburton is looking to make it two from two, but he will only retain up to a couple of players from the side which started on Friday night.

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“We’re making nine or 10 changes tomorrow night, but the team we put out will very strong indeed,” he said.

“Nothing will change in that we want to win a game of football. Full respect to Shrewsbury.

“They’re a strong League One side. We know the threat they’ll pose.

“We’ll put a strong team out. There will be a number of changes but it will be a team that could easily go into a league game, no problem.

“There will likely be vast experience within the team. We want to win a game of football.

“We want to go as far in the competition as possible. That won’t change irrespective of the weather or the crowd size.

“We appreciate the competition. It provides invaluable pitch time for a number of players.

“The more you can advance the more fans enjoy it, touch wood. It’s important for us to prepare as we would for any league game – all the focus is on tomorrow night and then we’ll think about Brentford at the weekend.”

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The likes of Kieran Dowell, Apostolos Vellios, Jason Cummings and Eric Lichaj will be hoping to come into the team after missing out on a place in the side that started the Championship opener.

Warburton was frank in his assessment of Forest’s performance against Millwall.

Having taken the time to watch the game back in the cold light of day, he says his view of the display remains the same – as does the fact the Reds won in front of more than 28,000 at the City Ground.

“Nothing has changed. The fact of the matter is we were below par and Millwall were very good,” he said.

“In truth, nine times out of 10, Millwall could have won that game of football. We have to appreciate the fact we have to be better in certain areas.

“Take nothing away from Millwall, but we got three points. If we can play below par and get three points it’s not a bad thing.

“The simple fact will read 1-0, clean sheet, first game of the season. We’re very appreciative of that.

“We’ve trained well, we’ve had a good pre-season. We’re not in a bad place at all.

“We’re looking forward to tomorrow night and the next league game of course. We have to work hard, recognise the quality of the league, which we do, but we’re in a good place.”