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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 5 (setup 5, season 17)
Reading
v.
Shrewsbury Town
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
20
Overall form:
Home form:
Shay GIVEN1David MARSHALL
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
14
Overall form:
Home form:
Márcio Rafael Ferreira de Souza, RAFINHA27Joey O'BRIEN
Urby EMANUELSON638Robbie BRADY
Keisuke HONDA747Joe ALLEN
Michael HECTOR75Craig CATHCART
TIAGO Abiola Delfim Almeida ILORI67Danny GABBIDON
JOAQUÍN Sánchez Rodríguez77Jon WALTERS
Bryan Jafet RUIZ González788James FORREST
Orlando Carlos Braga de SÁ97Jordan RHODES
Modou BARROW610Stuart ARMSTRONG
Deniss RAKELS6117Steven NAISMITH
Manager
Jake COOPER12Kris COMMONS
Anton SHUNIN13Neil ALEXANDER
Liam MOORE14Ryan DONNELLY
Stephen QUINN615Keith ANDREWS
Dan BURN16Sean ST LEDGER

Reading 2 Shrewsbury Town 1
(Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 30,908, Stadium: Madejski, Referee: Nigel MILLER 7)
33 Ruiz, 39 Scorers29 Gabbidon
64 Barrow <=> QuinnSubstitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
8Corners2
18Fouls12
3Offsides4
2Shots on10
7Shots off7
9Total shots17
0Shots saved9
41%Possession59%
Man of the match: James FORREST
2ARMSTRONG headed wide.
3NAISMITH fired a right foot shot over the bar from thirty yards out.
6A accurate pass bobbled toward EMANUELSON and his deadly shot flew narrowly wide.
11A penalty box scramble resulted in FORREST knocking the ball over.
19FORREST turned HONDA but nudged the ball into the arms of GIVEN.
27A fine ball from ARMSTRONG on the right was collected by ALLEN who sliced his effort wide.
28ARMSTRONG made space on the right and touched the ball to ALLEN who rasped the ball over.
29GOAL!! With his back to goal GABBIDON turned and stroked the ball past the Reading 'keeper. (1-0 Shrewsbury Town)
33GOAL!! A neat one-two left RUIZ clear and he made no mistake by lobbing the ball beyond the oncoming Shrewsbury Town 'keeper. (1-1)
36An inswinging corner was nodded into the arms of the 'keeper by WALTERS.
39GOAL!! After RUIZ was tripped MILLER waved play-on and went on to easily score. (2-1 Reading)
41RHODES fluffed an easy chance.
44ALLEN beat HONDA and fired the ball to BRADY who fired his shot wide.
 
50 stabbed an easy chance past the lefthand post.
51RUIZ ran onto a great ball from JOAQUÍN but pulled his effort wide of the righthand post.
57BRADY clipped the ball through a ruck of players but GIVEN was a match for it as he dived to his left.
60A strike from RHODES held no problem for the Reading 'keeper.
64The Reading 'keeper saved a glorious shot from FORREST.
67A cross from HONDA left RUIZ in plenty of space but he scuffed his shot.
68A right foot effort from NAISMITH was saved by GIVEN.
72A delightful strike from RHODES was dealt with by a good block from the 'keeper.
73EMANUELSON shot wide.
77GIVEN was able to claw away a poor shot from RHODES.
84EMANUELSON dribbled round CATHCART and stroked a weak shot well wide.
89A shot from NAISMITH was booted off the line by QUINN.
90+1Uncertainty in the Shrewsbury Town defence enabled EMANUELSON to crack the ball over.