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Match report
English Footie
League 1: Round 13 (setup 4, season 38)
Reading
v.
Torquay United
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
15
Overall form:
Home form:
Joe LUMLEY61Václav HLADKY
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
12
Overall form:
Home form:
Jonathan Castro Otto, JONNY26Oskar BUUR
Mouhamadou 'Naby' SARR3Luke CHAMBERS
John SWIFT84Mario GÖTZE
Matt MIAZGA57Bobby THOMAS
Liam MOORE66Allan TCHAPTCHET
Bertrand TRAORÉ7Bobson BAWLING
Modou BARROW86PEDRO CHIRIVELLA Burgos
LUCAS Eduardo Santos JOÃO79José Luis Mato Sanmartín, JOSELU
Ovie EJARIA610Bafétimbi GOMIS
Shane LONG711Tyler WALKER
Manager
Lewis BAKER12Tom LAPSLIE
Sam WALKER13Simon SLUGA
Jeff HENDRICK146Connor WICKHAM
Tom INCE15Aaron JARVIS
16Michael FREY

Reading 3 Torquay United 2
(Half-time: 3-1, Attendance: 23,077, Stadium: Madejski, Referee: Tony BATES 6½)
24 Traoré, 26 Traoré, 42 Lucas JoãoScorers43 Joselu, 73p Joselu
52 Barrow <=> InceSubstitutions72 Chambers <=> Wickham
Sendings off
15 Long, 28 EjariaBookings
4Corners5
12Fouls3
3Offsides3
4Shots on7
6Shots off5
10Total shots12
1Shots saved5
53%Possession47%
Man of the match: John SWIFT
2Uncertainty in the Torquay United defence enabled LUCAS JOÃO to thump the ball wide.
2SWIFT made space on the left and pulled the ball to TRAORÉ who touched the ball over.
3JOSELU ran onto a wonderful ball from GÖTZE but pulled his shot wide of the goal.
4The Reading 'keeper did well to hold onto a fierce strike from PEDRO CHIRIVELLA.
9The hapless HLADKY could only watch as a backpass from CHAMBERS dropped just wide.
13A shot from TRAORÉ held little difficulty for HLADKY.
15LONG booked by the ref for a poor challenge.
24GOAL!! A short clearance dropped to MOORE who sliced a shot goalward, luckily TRAORÉ was on hand to thump the ball into the roof of the net. (1-0 Reading)
26GOAL!! A Reading counter-attack allowed BARROW to setup TRAORÉ with a simple goal. (2-0 Reading)
27A delightful save prevented JOSELU from scoring a good goal.
28BATES books EJARIA for a bad tackle.
39A free-kick from WALKER went over the bar.
42GOMIS worked the ball to PEDRO CHIRIVELLA, WALKER latched onto his pass and hoofed the ball within easy reach of the Reading 'keeper.
42GOAL!! The Torquay United 'keeper got into difficulty with a backpass from BUUR and LUCAS JOÃO was able to scramble the ball home. (3-0 Reading)
43GOAL!! With his back to goal JOSELU wrong-footed the defence and rattled the ball past the 'keeper. (3-1 Reading)
 
46GOMIS chipped the ball to BAWLING who fired it over the bar.
51A header by JOSELU at the far post was comfortably collected by the Reading 'keeper.
56JOSELU rifled a simple chance past the lefthand post.
73GOAL!! JOSELU flicked a penalty beyond the 'keeper after TRAORÉ had handled just inside the area.
78A penalty box meleé resulted in JOSELU cracking a low shot wide.
83TRAORÉ headed over.
83A tame strike from MIAZGA bounced agonisingly wide.
84A useful ball from MOORE on the right bobbled toward SARR who sliced his effort over.
90PEDRO CHIRIVELLA rasped the ball through a crowd of players but the Reading 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left.