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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 35 (setup 1, season 25)
Reading
v.
Stoke City
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
20
Overall form:
Home form:
Marcelo Alberto BAROVERO17Jak ALNWICK
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
23
Overall form:
Home form:
Matteo FERRARI82George WHITEOAK
Cesare BOVO3Shane FERGUSON
CARLOS EDUARDO Marques46Gary GARDNER
David BYSTRON56Jack O'CONNELL
Jean-Pascal MIGNOT66Luke GARBUTT
Tonny Emilio Trindade de VILHENA77Dan GOSLING
Leon GORETZKA8Alejandro Damián FAURLIN
Yannis TAFER96Jamie MACKIE
Christian N'dri ROMARIC10Rodrigo Ferrante TADDEI
NILMAR Honorato da Silva711Jamie VARDY
ManagerSir Alf Ramsey
Yacine BRAHIMI12Jack BARMBY
Wayne HENNESSEY13Jack CUDWORTH
Robbie BRADY14Omar ROWE
Jake BUXTON15Zeli ISMAIL
Adam FORSHAW16Connor MAHONEY

Reading 3 Stoke City 0
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 19,295, Stadium: Madejski, Referee: Steve BRATT 7½)
9 Nilmar, 41 Vilhena, 53 RomaricScorers
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
4Corners3
2Fouls14
1Offsides3
5Shots on4
14Shots off7
19Total shots11
2Shots saved4
64%Possession36%
Man of the match: Shane FERGUSON
1A pin-point pass bobbled toward TAFER and his right foot shot went narrowly over.
5NILMAR headed over.
5CARLOS EDUARDO beat TADDEI and blasted the ball to NILMAR who blasted his shot wide.
9GOAL!! An inswinging corner was nodded clear only for NILMAR to crack the ball home. (1-0 Reading)
12A strike from VARDY held little difficulty for the 'keeper.
20A thirty yard shot from GOSLING caused BAROVERO little difficulty.
20TAFER was put clear by MIGNOT and he raced past ALNWICK but glanced his shot wide.
24CARLOS EDUARDO shot wide.
24A lovely effort from MACKIE scraped the outside of the righthand post.
28VARDY hoofed the ball wide of the lefthand post from just outside the area.
35A mix up in the Stoke City defence enabled ROMARIC to blast the ball over the bar.
39GORETZKA stormed through the Stoke City defence but shot straight at the 'keeper.
41GOAL!! A beautiful inswinging corner was nodded in at the near post by VILHENA. (2-0 Reading)
42ROMARIC ran onto a wonderful ball from CARLOS EDUARDO but fumbled his shot wide.
45A corner was collected by ROMARIC who headed the ball just beyond the near post.
 
47MACKIE poked an easy chance past the lefthand post.
50A poor strike from TAFER bounced agonisingly wide.
53GOAL!! A long ball from MIGNOT down the middle was collected by the lurking ROMARIC who placed a looping shot into the roof of the net. (3-0 Reading)
55A penalty box scramble resulted in VARDY driving a low shot over.
60TADDEI fluffed an easy chance.
62A cross from VILHENA left TAFER in lots of space but he scuffed his shot.
89BOVO beat three Stoke City players and fired a great chance over.