Paul Lambert has the difficult choice of deciding whether or not to include Andrew Surman in tomorrow's team.

Surman's comeback from a knee injury, sustained in the home game against Ipswich last November, was when he played 68 minutes in the Norfolk Senior Cup semi final against Dereham without problem.

Paul Lambert was to see how Surman came through training today before deciding.

Other than that, there are no further injuries after the game at Turf Moor.

Reading's top scorere, Shane Long had to have pain killing injections in order to play against QPR, so could miss out tomorrow.

Noel Hunt is likely to partner Simon Church as Reading manager, Brian McDermott feels new signing Mathieu Manset is not yet ready.

Midfielder Brian Howard and defender Alex Pierce are both returning from injury.

Meanwhile, Mikele Liegertwood is sitting out the second of his three match ban after a straight red for punchin Cardiff's Michael Chopra during a team brawl.

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