Team News: Reading, Brighton & Hove Albion make five changes apiece

Reading have made five changes ahead of their Championship clash against Brighton & Hove Albion this evening at the Madejski Stadium.

Chris Gunter, Jake Cooper, Hope Akpan, Nick Blackman and Garath McCleary are named in the Royals' starting XI.

Stephen Kelly, Alex Pearce and Jordan Obita are out of the squad completely, while Oliver Norwood and Pavel Pogrebnyak are on the bench.

The Seagulls also make five changes for tonight's game as Greg Halford, Rohan Ince, Jake Forster-Caskey, Kazenga LuaLua and Emmanuel Ledesma line up ahead of Bruno, Inigo Calderon, Joao Carlos, Danny Holla and Sam Baldock.

Reading: Federici, Gunter, Cooper, Hector, Chalobah, Akpan, Williams, Mackie, Robson-Kanu, Blackman, McCleary Subs: Andersen, Keown, Taylor, Norwood, Yakubu, Cox, Pogrebnyak

Brighton: Stockdale, Halford, Greer, Dunk, Bennett, Ince, Forster-Caskey, Kayal, O'Grady, Lua-Lua, Ledesma Subs: Ankergren, Hughes, Calderon, Holla, Bruno, Best, Teixeria