Trevor Bayliss has called on his England players to keep Australia down in Thursday’s fourth Test at Trent Bridge and secure the victory that would mean the hosts regained the Ashes with a match to spare.

With England leading 2-1 in the series after their eight-wicket win at Edgbaston on Friday, the selectors named the fast bowlers Liam Plunkett and Mark Footitt in a 14-man squad for Nottingham. The struggling Adam Lyth is retained as an opener.

Despite those two call-ups in the absence of the injured Jimmy Anderson, who suffered a side strain on Thursday, the Durham quick Mark Wood is expected to overcome the ankle discomfort that led to him being rested in Birmingham and has been tipped by Bayliss as a possible new-ball partner to Stuart Broad in Anderson’s absence.

While draws in the final two Tests would secure the urn and give Alastair Cook his second Ashes win as captain, Bayliss is refusing to entertain any defensive thoughts, instead believing that with the tourists facing greater questions after the three-day defeat, attack must remains England’s default position after their recovery from the heavy defeat in the second Test at Lord’s.

“We’ll certainly be playing to win the next match,” he said. “Some of the Australians will be under pressure as we were [at Edgbaston] and hopefully we will be able to build on that pressure in the next match and not let them up off the floor.”

Having warned of a backlash from Michael Clarke’s side after England’s opening win in Cardiff, only to see his players crushed by 405 runs at Lord’s, Bayliss is also aware that current confidence must not morph into complacency when hostilities resume at Trent Bridge. “You don’t have the success over a period of time that they’ve had without being able to put those things behind you as we did ourselves,” said England’s Australian coach. “Confidence is a great thing but we’ve got to be aware that we had that after the first Test and then at Lord’s we didn’t bowl terribly well with the new ball on day one.

“We’ve got to have that in the back of our minds and work out exactly what we’ve got to do for each of their batters. If we do that, and we can move the ball around, we know we’ve a good chance of taking wickets. The message to the boys is to relax for a few extra days but come back with their own personal plans in place.”

Among those struggling for the tourists is Clarke, with the 34-year-old honest enough to admit his return of 94 runs from six innings this series has undermined their Ashes defence. Bayliss is reluctant to comment on his fellow New South Welshman’s issues for fear of stirring him back into life. “Michael has had a long career and had a few runs of form like this in the past which he’s come back from,” Bayliss said. “The last thing I want to do or England want to do is forecast his demise because that’s just giving him ammunition to come out and score a heap of runs. He is a guy with plenty of experience and lot of Test runs behind him – we are certainly not taking him lightly.”

While Clarke’s Test career is debated back home, Australia’s head coach, Darren Lehmann, has insisted that he will be given as long as he needs to rediscover his touch. “I can’t complain about the work ethic of any of the players, Michael especially as captain,” Lehmann said. “He sets the tone and raises the bar of what you need to do to play well at this level. From our point of view it’s all those players playing well in the next Test match. We’re not going to panic, that’s for sure.”

England squad for Trent Bridge

Cook (c), Lyth, Bell, Root, Bairstow, Stokes, Buttler (wk), Ali, Broad, Wood, Finn, Rashid, Plunkett, Footitt