KEVIN PHILLIPS is set to make a return to first team action in the FA Cup-tie against Brentford tomorrow.

Saints' nine-goal top scorer has been out since the middle of January when he injured his ankle in the defeat at Newcastle.

But now Harry Redknapp is going to be in the welcome position of having all three of his frontline strikers to choose from alongside on-form duo Peter Crouch and Henri Camara.

He said: "Kevin Phillips is fit and back and so that gives us a nice problem. We've got three strikers all fit.

"Kevin needs to get a game in and Camara is in terrific form with a great performance against Everton and he scored two goals in the tsunami game in Barcelona on Tuesday."

The former Brentford winger - Redknapp played once for the Bees in 1976 - added: "I'm not going to mess around much with the team, because I've got to pick a team that can get a result.

"Nigel Quashie can't play as he's cup tied and there's one or two others I have to look at and think 'can I get three games out of them in a week?'"

That concern, with a vital match against fellow-strugglers West Brom coming up just three days later, may mean Jamie Redknapp is rested and Matt Oakley given a run-out in the centre of midfield - just as he was when he scored against Portsmouth in the last round when Redknapp junior was rested.

Definitely out are Fabrice Fernandes, who picked up a minor knock in training this week, and Antti Niemi, who is hoping to complete his recovery from a cartilage operation in time for the visit of Arsenal a week tomorrow.

Redknapp believes a win tomorrow, which will put Saints into Monday's quarter-final draw, could also have an impact on the club's league form, and he'll be taking nothing for granted against Martin Allen's spirited League 1 side.

He said: "Martin Allen's team will give it a good old go and it's an old clich but it's always tough in the Cup.

"You can't hope for any more in the cup than a home draw against a lower league team.

"We've got to keep winning because it breeds confidence.

"The one thing you don't want is to get knocked out of the cup, because then you lose confidence.

"They'll be so wound up for it and we all know what can happen in the cup.

"You only have to look at the season when Lawrie Sanchez got Wycombe to the semi-finals (2000/01) - they pushed Liverpool all the way there.

"It happens, but don't ask me how.

"The worst team I had at Bournemouth when I first took over there played Man United and we beat them 2-0 (in January 1984).

"Don't ask me how we did it - for one day in their lives they were just like men possessed."