Slaven Bilic has made it clear he has warned his players not to take today’s game anything less than seriously.

And he said that yesterday showed how things can go with Reading beating West Brom and Watford winning only by one goal over Leeds.

Slav said: “We have had a lot of games this season and we have trained and rested. There is no danger of taking this game for granted – they only have to look at yesterday’s results.

“We will need to be at out best because you don’t have to go back very far to see the sort of results that can happen in the Cup.”