Team News: Two changes for Reading for Nottingham Forest trip

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