Mick McCarthy has made three changes to his Ipswich Town side for this evening’s game with Reading.

Bartosz Bialkowski starts in goal in place of the injured Dean Gerken, Luke Hyam is in for the suspended Jonathan Douglas and Ainsley Maitland-Niles starts in place of Kevin Bru.

For the visitors, Yann Kermorgant is in for his first start since joining from Bournemouth.

Ipswich Town: Bialkowski, Chambers, Smith, Berra, Knudsen; Maitland-Niles, Hyam, Skuse, Fraser; Murphy, Sears.

Subs: Henly, Foley, Digby, Coke, Bru, Varney, Pitman.

Reading: Al-Habsi, Gunter, Obita, Ferdinand, Cooper, Williams, Norwood, Quinn, Robson-Kanu, Vydra, Kermorgant.

Subs: Bond, Taylor, Hector, McShane, McCleary, Piazon, John.