Reading have made two changes for the trip to Nottingham Forest in the Championship this afternoon.
Pavel Pogrebnyak is ruled out with a calf injury, while Hope Akpan drops to the bench.
They are replaced with Ryan Edwards and Aaron Kuhl, with the latter making his first professional start.
Meanwhile, club-record signing Britt Assombalonga starts up top for Stuart Pearce's side, alongside Matty Fryatt.
Forest: Darlow; Harding, Fox, Mancienne, Hunt; Reid, Antonio, Cohen, Burke; Assombalonga, Fryatt
Reading: Federici; Gunter, Cummings, Hector, Pearce; Obita, Kuhl, Blackman Taylor; Edwards, Cox
