Nottingham Forest entertain Reading on Saturday looking to return to winning ways following two successive defeats against Wigan and Hull City.
The Reds weren’t at their best on Wednesday night and boss Sabri Lamouchi will be demanding better from his players this weekend.
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Forest’s boss restored several players to his starting line-up for the visit of Hull and after a disappointing result, more changes could be made against the Royals.
Ahead of the game, we look at a predicted line-up that Lamouchi will plump for to face Mark Bowen’s team:
Goalkeeper and back four
The only likely decision for Lamouchi to make will be at left-back where Yuri Ribeiro could replace Jack Robinson.
Matty Cash (right-back), Joe Worrall, Chema Rodriguez (centre-backs) and Brice Samba (goalkeeper), should all continue in their roles from Wednesday night.
One area of the pitch where Lamouchi won’t want to keep chopping and changing is at the back and he will probably keep changes to a minimum there.
Midfield
Ryan Yates could perhaps come into the side this weekend for his first start of the season. Alfa Semedo and Samba Sow are likely to remain sidelined once again for the Reading game.
Ben Watson will naturally continue in midfield and should captain the side once again in the absence of Michael Dawson.
In attack
Joe Lolley will probably start despite looking somewhat out of sorts lately.
Sammy Ameobi was poor on Wednesday night as was Joao Carvalho and both of those could start on the bench.
Albert Adomah will be chomping at the bit to start a game for the first time since the trip to Swansea back in September, whilst Tiago Silva could operate in the number 10 role.
Lewis Grabban will almost certainly start in attack and he will hope to receive better service than he has done recently.
Here is how Lamouchi’s team could line-up:
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