INJURY-RAVAGED Blackburn Rovers have made four changes for tonight’s Championship clash at home to Brentford.
Two of them are enforced as Craig Conway and Doneil Henry are ruled out with the hamstring injuries they sustained in Saturday’s 3-1 win at Charlton Athletic.
Chris Taylor takes the place of Conway and fit-again stand-in skipper Matt Kilgallon takes the place of Henry, who has returned to West Ham United midway through his one-month loan spell.
Corry Evans replaces Lee Williamson, who also came off against Charlton but is deemed fit enough for a place on the bench, and Rudy Gestede replaces Chris Brown.
Such are the paucity of options available to Rovers boss Bowyer, whose side are chasing a fourth successive victory, he has been forced to name Connor Mahoney among his substitutes just 24 hours after the 18-year-old played 90 minutes for the club’s U21s team.
Brentford make two changes to the side that started their 2-1 home loss to nine-man Cardiff City on Saturday.
Alan Judge, one of two Rovers old boys in the Bees’ starting line-up, the other being captain Jonathan Douglas, is in for Toumani Diagouraga, and Chris Long is in for top-scorer Andre Gray.
Rovers: Steele, Henley, Baptiste, Kilgallon, Spurr, Taylor, Evans, Cairney, Marshall, Gestede, Rhodes. Subs: Eastwood, Brown, Williamson, Songo'o, Spearing, Lenihan, Mahoney.
Brentford: Burton, Odubajo, Dean, Tarkwoski, Bidwell, Douglas, Dallas, Judge, Pritchard, Jota, Long. Subs: Bonham, Craig, McCormack, Toral, Gray, Diagouraga, Smith.
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