Birmingham v QPR: Luongo dropped

Massimo Luongo has been dropped for QPR’s game at Birmingham, where Luke Freeman makes his first start since his January move.

Luongo drops to the bench along with Jamie Mackie and James Perch, while Darnell Furlong and the fit-again Joel Lynch come back into the starting line-up. Ravel Morrison is again absent from Rangers’ matchday squad.

Meanwhile, Birmingham are without the suspended Craig Gardner and David Davis as well as the injured Michael Morrison, but Ryan Shotton returns.

Birmingham: Kuszczak, Nsue, Dacres-Cogley, Shotton, Ground, Keita, Kieftenbeld, Tesche, Stewart, Adams, Sinclair.
Subs: Legzdins, Robinson, Geeson, Frei, O’Keefe, Bielik, Storer.

QPR: Smithies, Furlong, Onuoha, Lynch, Bidwell, Wszolek, Hall, Manning, Freeman, Smith, Washington.
Subs: Ingram, Mackie, Luongo, Ngbakoto, Perch, LuaLua, Sylla.