Swansea City v Reading : Teams for today’s game at 2pm

The swans take on the royals at the Swansea.com stadium this afternoon. Team news is below, the swans may well be favourites but this isn’t a Reading side ready to give up easily. Swansea should be well on guard today. This is the championship.

As predicted Williams makes a return and Obafemi and Whittaker again don’t start.

Swansea City: Ben Hamer; Ryan Bennett, Kyle Naughton, Rhys Williams; Ethan Laird, Korey Smith, Matt Grimes (captain), Ryan Manning; Olivier Ntcham, Jamie Paterson; Joel Piroe.

Substitutes: Steven Benda, Flynn Downes, Brandon Cooper, Liam Cullen, Joel Latibeaudiere, Jake Bidwell, Liam Walsh.

Reading: Luke Southwood, Tom Holmes, Alen Halilovic, Andy Carroll, John Swift, Danny Drinkwater, Andy Yiadom (captain), Tom Dele-Bashiru, Baba Rahman, Scott Dann, Josh Laurent.

Substitutes: Rafael Cabral, Dejan Tetek, Femi Azeez, Mamadi Camara, George Puscas, Tyrell Ashcroft, Kelvin Abrefa.

Tickets still available.

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