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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 30 (setup 1, season 32)
WBA
v.
Reading
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
15
Overall form:
Home form:
Wilfredo Daniel CABALLERO1Thibaut COURTOIS
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
3
Overall form:
Home form:
Gino PERUZZI Lucchetti2Fábio Henrique Tavares, FABINHO
Mamadou SAKHO37Ricardo RODRIGUEZ
Bryan CRISTANTE74Piotr ZIELINSKI
Jan-Arie VAN DER HEIJDEN75Kostas MANOLAS
Jonas OLSSON66Stefan SAVIC
Mario PASALIC677Mitchell WEISER
André AYEW78Sadio MANÉ
Filip DJORDJEVIC797Facundo FERREYRA
Simon TIBBLING10Tiemoué BAKAYOKO
JOELINTON Cassio Apolinário de Lira116GABRIEL Fernando de JESUS
Manager
Michele SOMMA12Jean-Kévin AUGUSTIN
Rémy RIOU13Arkadiusz MILIK
Leonardo CAPEZZI146Milan BADELJ
Ángelo José HENRÍQUEZ Iturra15Éver Maximiliano David BANEGA
Louis SCHAUB16DENIS Suárez Fernández

WBA 1 Reading 3
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 51,249, Stadium: The Hawthorns, Referee: Darren DRYSDALE 5½)
15 AyewScorers4 Mané, 68 Mané, 89 Bakayoko
Substitutions76 Weiser <=> Badelj
Sendings off
Bookings
2Corners2
2Fouls16
0Offsides2
7Shots on9
3Shots off5
10Total shots14
6Shots saved4
47%Possession53%
Man of the match: Piotr ZIELINSKI
2A left foot shot from DJORDJEVIC was forced wide by the Reading 'keeper.
4GOAL!! A quick free-kick allowed BAKAYOKO to nudge the ball to MANÉ who fired a deadly shot home. (1-0 Reading)
5CABALLERO saved a glorious shot from FERREYRA.
14AYEW's shot beat the Reading 'keeper but rebounded off the Reading post.
15GOAL!! Unlucky DJORDJEVIC hit the post before AYEW stroked the ball into the net as RODRIGUEZ failed to clear. (1-1)
21The 'keeper was able to claw away an amazing effort.
21A strike from SAKHO held little difficulty for the 'keeper.
23A wonderful save prevented FERREYRA from scoring an exceptional goal.
26MANÉ drilled a right foot shot wide from just outside the area.
27PASALIC's shot was well held by COURTOIS.
31MANÉ galloped through the WBA defence but shot straight at the 'keeper.
32SAKHO beat two Reading players and fired a golden opportunity over the bar.
 
46FERREYRA touched the ball through a crowd of players but the WBA 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
48AYEW brought the ball past RODRIGUEZ and poked a weak shot into the crowd.
49SAKHO was put clear by OLSSON and he beat the Reading 'keeper but rammed his shot inches wide.
54GABRIEL JESUS headed over the bar.
62An inswinging corner was touched into the arms of the Reading 'keeper by PASALIC.
65Uncertainty in the WBA defence enabled ZIELINSKI to thump an effort just beyond the far post.
68GOAL!! A Reading counter-attack allowed FERREYRA to setup MANÉ with an easy goal. (2-1 Reading)
74GABRIEL JESUS beat SAKHO and fired the ball to FERREYRA who fumbled his shot wide.
75A shot from PASALIC was smothered by the Reading 'keeper.
80FABINHO fluffed a simple chance.
86A thirty yard shot from BAKAYOKO caused CABALLERO little difficulty.
89GOAL!! An exceptional ball from MANOLAS left ZIELINSKI in the clear, he made the WBA 'keeper commit himself before knocking the ball to BAKAYOKO to score. (3-1 Reading)