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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 18 (setup 1, season 33)
Reading
v.
Cambridge United
Formation:
3-5-2
League position:
4
Overall form:
Home form:
Thibaut COURTOIS1Rob ELLIOT
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
20
Overall form:
Home form:
Fábio Henrique Tavares, FABINHO827Ahmed ELMOHAMADY
Ricardo RODRIGUEZ736Álvaro Daniel PEREIRA Barragan
Tiemoué BAKAYOKO84Nuri SAHIN
Éver Maximiliano David BANEGA56Vasili BEREZUTSKY
Kostas MANOLAS66Benjamin CORGNET
Piotr ZIELINSKI7Oussama ASSAIDI
Sadio MANÉ8Ezequiel Iván LAVEZZI
Facundo FERREYRA896Michael SMITH
Mitchell WEISER7106Gabriel AGBONLAHOR
GABRIEL Fernando de JESUS116Salomon KALOU
Heath BrownManager
Jean-Kévin AUGUSTIN12Harry DARLING
Simon MIGNOLET13Joe PIGOTT
Marko ARNAUTOVIC14Harrison DUNK
DENIS Suárez Fernández15Jevani BROWN
Danny DRINKWATER16Ben WILLIAMSON

Reading 2 Cambridge United 0
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 39,923, Stadium: Madejski, Referee: Thomas TROUPKOS 5½)
17 Gabriel Jesus, 72 FerreyraScorers
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
8Corners6
9Fouls19
7Offsides2
5Shots on4
7Shots off3
12Total shots7
3Shots saved4
53%Possession47%
Man of the match: Piotr ZIELINSKI
4FERREYRA floated the ball to GABRIEL JESUS who forced it over.
7An inswinging corner was fired into the arms of the Reading 'keeper by LAVEZZI.
9PEREIRA beat two Reading players and slammed an effort over.
12A shot from WEISER held little difficulty for ELLIOT.
14A mix up in the Cambridge United defence enabled RODRIGUEZ to hit the ball wide.
17GOAL!! After MANÉ was tripped the ref waved play-on and GABRIEL JESUS went on to comfortably score. (1-0 Reading)
19A thirty yard shot from GABRIEL JESUS caused the 'keeper no problem.
22A free-kick from LAVEZZI floated over.
39ELLIOT parried a neatly crafted strike from FERREYRA.
44LAVEZZI stepped inside BANEGA but hit the ball into the arms of the Reading 'keeper.
 
50A poor strike from RODRIGUEZ bounced agonisingly wide.
61GABRIEL JESUS fired a right foot shot just beyond the far post from just outside the area.
64A good ball from FERREYRA on the right found GABRIEL JESUS who mishit his shot wide.
67The 'keeper saved a glorious shot from PEREIRA.
72GOAL!! BAKAYOKO drove a powerful shot against the crossbar with FERREYRA cracking in the rebound. (2-0 Reading)
74BANEGA headed the ball wide from just outside the area.
75A cross from SAHIN left SMITH in lots of space but he fluffed his shot.
85COURTOIS dived to his left to stop a lovely drive from Cambridge United's LAVEZZI.
86The motionless 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from SAHIN fell just over.