KIDDERMINSTER Harriers will again be without Scott Stamps and Ian Foster for tonight's Worthington Cup first round second leg clash with free-scoring Nationwide Second Division leaders Walsall at Aggborough (7.45).

Defender Stamps could be out of action for up to three weeks with a knee injury while Foster is still battling to overcome hamstring trouble.

Both missed Saturday's 1-0 Nationwide Division Three defeat by Carlisle United at Aggborough.

Stamps and Foster are among five players Kidderminster currently have on the casualty list. The others are goalkeeper Tim Clarke, midfielder and assistant manager Gary Barnett and winger Thomas Skovbjerg.

Clarke is having surgery on a knee injury this week and could be sidelined for up to six weeks while Barnett has a groin strain.

Skovbjerg continues to make good progress in his quest to battle back from a long term knee injury.

Manager Jan Molby will name an unchanged squad for the match in which his players will be aiming to go one better than they did at the Bescot Stadium two weeks ago.

On that occasion the match ended all square following a 1-1 draw, Harriers leading scorer Stewart Hadley grabbing an equaliser after Jorge Leitao had given the Saddlers the lead.

Molby said of tonight's tough task: "It's a game we have got to look forward to, we've got nothing to lose.

"I know their manager Ray Graydon has been trying to shift the favouritism on to us because we got the result up there.

"But with the free-scoring start they have had to the season it is going to be a tough one.

"We can go out and enjoy it and I think it will be an open game.

"It will be fast and I think it will be one for the fans to look forward to because Walsall are going to come here knowing they have to score.

"At the moment, though, they aren't finding that a problem, so they'll be firing on all cylinders.

"They have good pace down the flanks and a good pace through the middle, so they'll cause us a lot of problems.

"I think Walsall are better than the team that was unluckily relegated from Division One last season. Now they have a real flair about them and real pace in the side.

"They go forward at every opportunity, so it's going to be like it was at Walsall.

"It will be hard work for us, but it's going to be one of those games where, by the end of it, I think it will have been a good game of football.

"It was a tremendous result for us at Walsall. They have played five Division Two games, winning them all, and one cup match. A lot of those have been won convincingly, so it was great for us to go there and get a draw.

"But people who think the job is half done will be mistaken because it's back to business now for us after Saturday because it's going to be a really tough game.

"They are one or two classes above what we normally play against, but I feel that on the odd occasion we can rise to that."