Joe Garner returns to the Town starting line-up for this afternoon’s game against Reading but the Blues are otherwise unchanged from the team which lost 2-0 at Middlesbrough last week.

Garner, a sub at the Riverside, will take up his usual lone striker’s role in the now familiar 4-2-3-1 system with Martyn Waghorn moving back into the position vacated by Emyr Huws, who is out for the season having undergone knee surgery on Thursday.

David McGoldrick is back on the bench having recovered from the gash to his groin he suffered in the Sheffield Wednesday match last month.

Reading make one change with Tyler Blackett replacing Liam Kelly, who drops to the bench.

Town: Bialkowski, Spence, Chambers (c), Webster, Knudsen, Skuse, Connolly, Ward, Waghorn, Celina, Garner. Subs: M Crowe, Iorfa, T Smith, Bishop, McGoldrick, Sears, Bru.

Reading: Mannone, Gunter, Van den Berg, McShane (c), Moore, Aluko, Edwards, Barrow, Kermorgant, Bacuna, Blackett. Subs: Jaakola, Beerens, Ilori, Clement, Bodvarsson, Kelly, Richards.

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cat added 14:58 - Dec 16 We should be fancying this one. My eyes will be on the possession stats against a decent ball playing Reading side. Looking forward to the day when we dominate a team, specially at home, hopefully today will be that day. No surprises with the line up, bench looks decent, let's take the game to them.
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Warkys_Tash added 16:02 - Dec 16 Cat, 73% to 27% in Readings favour (bbc website) at HT. The important thing is the goals column though :-) Agree, it would be nice to dominate but I'd much rather win.
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cat added 16:18 - Dec 16 Warkys_Tash - agree!
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