Blackburn Rovers will once again be looking to return to winning ways on Tuesday night, when they travel to the Madejski Stadium to take on Reading.

Tony Mowbray's side ended a five-game losing run with an underwhelming 1-1 draw at home to Coventry City on Saturday, and have slid into the bottom half of the Championship table.

Reading meanwhile, go into the game fifth in the second-tier standings following their win over Rotherham United at the weekend, meaning this will be no easy task for Rovers.

As a result, there is plenty for Mowbray to think about going into this one, and here, we've taken a look at two dilemmas facing the Blackburn boss ahead of that clash with the Royals this evening.

How to rediscover their goalscoring touch

It has been quite some time now since we saw the free-flowing Blackburn side that looked so dangerous in attack at the start of this season, which has many tipping them as dark horses for promotion.

Indeed, having averaged more than 1.5 goals per game during the first half of the season, since the campaign passed the midway point, Rovers have averaged just 0.88 goals per game (eight in nine matches).

That is something they are going to need to address quickly if they are to get the season back on track, and make them a team that looks like they can potentially push for promotion in the not too distant future, which will be crucial in terms of business with both their current players, and potential new signings, as the transfer window approaches.

Who does he partner with Lenihan at centre back?

At the other end of the pitch, Mowbray must decide which of his two loanees - Everton's Jarrad Branthwaite and Manchester City's Taylor Harwood-Bellis - to line up with Darragh Lenihan inthe centre of defence.

It was Branthwaite who kept his place in the side when Lenihan returned from injury on Saturday, with the suggestion being that Mowbray would prefer to play a left-footer such as the Everton man alongside the right-footed Lenihan.

But with Branthwaite, for all his potential, looking somewhat suspect with the ball at his feet on occasions, you wonder whether Mowbray may be inclined to take a chance on playing two right-footed centre backs, by starting Lenihan and Harwood-Bellis as a central defensive pair for the first time since the latter's arrival on the final day of the January transfer window.