Blackburn Rovers vs. Wolves team news: Vitor Pereira rings changes for FA Cup fourth round tie

Blackburn Rovers and Wolverhampton Wanderers have announced their starting lineups for Sunday's FA Cup fourth-round tie at Ewood Park.

Despite the manner of their excellent 2-0 victory against Aston Villa last weekend, Wolves head coach Vitor Pereira has made five changes to his first XI.

The most notable is the return of Joao Gomes, who served a one-game ban in the previous Premier League fixture, with Andre dropping down to the substitutes' bench.

Goalkeeper Sam Johnstone is handed an opportunity between the sticks, while Santiago Bueno takes the place of Matt Doherty in the back three.

Rodrigo Gomes has come into the team at left wing-back ahead of Rayan Ait-Nouri, while Hwang Hee-chan is preferred to Pablo Sarabia in the final third.

New signings Nasser Djiga and Marshall Munetsi have been included among the replacements.

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Eustace makes eight changes in potential final Blackburn game

Reports have emerged that Derby County have approached Blackburn with regards to their manager John Eustace, the Rams seemingly prepared to pay his release clause.

Nevertheless, Eustace has made eight alterations to the Blackburn XI that lost 2-1 at Queens Park Rangers last time out.

There are debuts for Yuri Ribeiro and Emmanuel Dennis at left-back and in attack respectively.

Meanwhile, Balazs Toth, Joe Rankin-Costello, Adam Forshaw, Amario Cozier-Duberry, Todd Cantwell and Augustus Kargbo have also come into the side.

Blackburn Rovers XI: Toth; Rankin-Costello, Batth, Ribeiro; Forshaw, Buckley; Cozier-Duberry, Cantwell, Kargbo; Dennis Subs: Pears, Brittain, Beck, Travis, Hedges, Weimann, Dolan, Woodrow, Gueye

Wolverhampton Wanderers XI: Johnstone; Bueno, Agbadou, Toti; Semedo, J.Gomes, Bellegarde, R.Gomes; Guedes, Cunha; Hwang Subs: Bentley, Doherty, Ait-Nouri, Munetsi, Andre, Doyle, Sarabia, Forbs, Djiga