GOALKEEPER Luke Steele and defender Shane Duffy will make their full Blackburn Rovers debuts in today’s Championship clash with managerless Fulham at Craven Cottage.
Steele and Duffy, who arrived at Ewood Park on transfer deadline day, replace Paul Robinson and Matt Kilgallon in Gary Bowyer’s starting line-up.
Robinson has not travelled with the squad with the club stating that the former England number one has a knee injury.
Rovers boss Bowyer, whose side went down 3-2 at home to Derby County on Wednesday, has made one further change with Lee Williamson coming in for Craig Conway.
Basement boys Fulham, who will be led by caretaker manager Kit Symons after Felix Magath’s sacking on Thursday, have made three changes to the team that started Wednesday’s 5-3 defeat at Nottingham Forest.
Former Accrington Stanley goalkeeper Marcus Bettinelli, Lasse Vigen Christensen and Bryan Ruiz come in for Gabor Kiraly, Nikolay Bodurov and Mark Fotheringham.
It is Costa Rica World Cup star Ruiz's first start of the season.
Fulham: Bettinelli, Hoogland, Hutchinson, Burn, Amorebieta, Christensen, Parker, Stafylidis, Ruiz, McCormack, Rodallega. Subs: Kiraly, Bodurov, Kavanagh, Hyndman, Roberts, Williams, Dembele.
Rovers: Steele, Baptiste, Hanley, Duffy, Olsson, Cairney, Williamson, Evans, Marshall, Rhodes, Gestede. Subs: Eastwood, Henley, Kilgallon, King, Varney, Taylor, Conway.
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