Reading boss Steve Coppell will make eight changes for Saturday's FA Cup third round trip to Tottenham after successive Premier League defeats.Defender Ibrahima Sonko is banned, as is midfielder Brynjar Gunnarsson, and Coppell intends to rest almost a whole team of usual picks.

Goalkeeper Adam Federici, defenders Liam Rosenior, Michael Duberry, Andre Bikey and Ulises de la Cruz, midfielder Emerse Fae and strikers Leroy Lita and Shane Long all come in.

Reading (from): Federici, Hahnemann, Halls, Rosenior, Duberry, Bikey, de la Cruz, Fae, Cisse, Harper, Convey, Long, Lita, Henry, Pearce, Ingimarsson, Hunt, Doyle, Golbourne, Cox.

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