Team News: Dean Gerken returns for Bolton Wanderers clash

Ipswich Town goalkeeper Dean Gerken has been passed fit to start for the trip to Bolton Wanderers in the Championship this afternoon.

The 28-year-old was forced off through injury and replaced by Scott Loach mid-way through the 0-1 defeat to Burnley last weekend.

However, Gerken has shrugged off the knock which threatened his inclusion today and has been declared fit to face the Trotters, meaning that Town boss Mick McCarthy has named an unchanged team for the sixth successive fixture in England's second tier.

Unlike McCarthy, Bolton manager Dougie Freedman is without his first-choice goalkeeper Adam Bogdan for the visit of Ipswich.

The Bulgarian shot-stopper is poised for a six-week layoff with a sprained knee, meaning that Andy Lonergan's prolonged spell in the first team begins this afternoon.

Freedman names three changes in total from the 1-1 draw with Sheffield Wednesday last week, with Lee Chung-Yong and David Ngog also afforded starting berths.

Bolton Wanderers: Lonergan; Baptiste, Mills, Ream, McNaughton; Medo, Spearing, Danns, Chung-Yong; Ngog, Beckford

Ipswich Town: Gerken; Creswell, Chambers, Smith, Berra; Skuse, Murphy, Tunnicliffe, Anderson, Hyam; McGoldrick