They need to get over last Friday's Premier Trophy home defeat against Birmingham – their first for 98 meetings at the Norfolk Arena.

The Stars have already made amends by starting the league campaign well, by securing a draw at Workington on Saturday night and a win away at Glasgow on Sunday.

Friday's defeat has probably been worrying a lot of fans, but team boss Rob Lyon believes his team has what it takes to still go all the way.

He said: "Last Friday night was just a blip. It happens once in a while in every type of sport and it proves we are not invincible.

"It has helped us to refocus, and I believe we will become a better team from it.

"The defeat will no doubt now encourage every team that visits us to battle that little bit harder because they believe they have seen a weakness but we will do everything we can to counteract it.

"Edinburgh will be very tough and they will be smelling blood already, but we want to get back to winning ways, so it should be an interesting match!"

The Monarchs are fielding their strongest team in years and the Stars will really be up against it.

They are led by American Ryan Fisher and Swedish sensation Thomas Jonasson, they also have former Lynn Star, Matthew Wethers, in the middle order along with William Lawson and Derek Sneddon.

Their reserve pairing is where they are especially strong around the Norfolk Arena with Andrew Tully and Aaron Summers, both riders having plenty of experience in recent weeks round the track after competing in the British Under 21 qualifying round and also for the Redcar Cubs in the Conference League.

Stars team: 1 Tomas Topinka (c), 2 Shaun Tacey, 3 Kevin Doolan, 4 Kozza Smith , 5 Rusty Harrison, 6 John Oliver, 7 Simon Lambert.

Edinburgh: 1 Ryan Fisher, 2 Derek Sneddon, 3 Thomas Jonasson, 4 William Lawson, 5 Matthew Wethers, 6 Aaron Summers, 7 Andrew Tully.