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9¹ An inswinging corner was flicked into the arms of the 'keeper by WILLIAMS. 11¹ MOWATT headed just beyond the near post. 13¹ A mix up in the Reading defence enabled YARMOLYUK to fire an effort inches over. 21¹ GOAL!! With his back to goal SPORAR wrong-footed the defence and stroked the ball past the Reading 'keeper. (1-0 Middlesbrough) 27¹ A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the oncoming Reading 'keeper. 32¹ A shot from SULEIMANOV was smothered by the 'keeper. 33¹ A tame strike from MATTHEWS trickled agonisingly wide. 35¹ SULEIMANOV knocked the ball to LAROUCI who fired it inches wide. 47¹ A great shot from SPORAR was dealt with by a good block from the 'keeper. 0² GOAL!! GOMEZ MANCINI tried to play the ball out of the Reading penalty area but was tackled by YARMOLYUK who forced the ball to SPORAR for a simple goal. (2-0 Middlesbrough) 2² A left foot shot from SOLOMON was saved by the 'keeper. 5² A header by CROOKS at the far post was comfortably collected by the 'keeper. 7² GOAL!! A poor backpass by GORDON enabled FRY to nip in and fire the ball past the Reading 'keeper. (3-0 Middlesbrough) 16² SOLOMON hoofed the ball wide from just inside the area. 19² A cross from YARMOLYUK left SPORAR in plenty of space but he snapped at his shot. 22² A great effort from PHILIPP scraped the top of the crossbar. 28² The motionless BREEZE could only watch as a backpass from COUSIN-DAWSON dropped just wide. 35² A strike from SOLOMON held little difficulty for the Reading 'keeper. 40² A free-kick from CROOKS went over the bar. 43² SPORAR dribbled round JONES and poked a weak shot wide. 46² SOLOMON shot wide. 47² GOAL!! A deep cross by SULEIMANOV was met by PHILIPP who steamed in to score. (4-0 Middlesbrough)

Middlesbrough   League position: - Home league form: LWWW Overall league form: WLXWWWXW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Joe LUMLEY 7½ 1 7  Gabriel BREEZE Hayden MATTHEWS 7½ 2 6  Josh WILLIAMS Yasser LAROUCI 7½ 3 5½ Eddy JONES Yehor YARMOLYUK 8  4 6  Kyron GORDON(c) Wesley FOFANA 6½ 5 6½ Malachi FAGAN-WALCOTT Dael FRY 8  6 6  Finn COUSIN-DAWSON Magomed-Shapi SULEIMANOV 8  7 6  Charlie McCANN Manor SOLOMON 8  8 6½ Jack TURNER (p)Andraz SPORAR 7  9 6½ Dejan TETEK(p) (f)Alex MOWATT 5  10 5½ Anthony GOMEZ MANCINI(f) (c)Maximilian PHILIPP 7½ 11 6  Sonny LO-EVERTON Manager Tom LOCKYER    12    Finlay ARMSTRONG Benoît COSTIL    13    Tiernan BROOKS Samuel SILVERA    14    Zak EMMERSON Matt CROOKS 8  15    Jack WELLS-MORRISON Ousmane DIAKITÉ    16    Kahrel REDDIN

Reading   League position: 24 Away league form: LLLL Overall league form: LLLLLLLL Formation: 3-2-4-1

Statistics

Middlesbrough 4 Reading 0 (Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 32,217, Stadium: Riverside, Referee: Egil Nervik 6) Sporar 21¹, Sporar 0², Fry 7², Philipp 47² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession   MowattóCrooks 2²           5 4 7 6 11 8 10 1 17 1 27 2 4 1 67% 33% ¶ Man of the match: Magomed-Shapi Suleimanov ¶