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Commentary
DELE-BASHIRU receives a yellow card for a cynical foul on DOYLE.
MEITÉ made space on the left and pulled the ball to LANGÅS who clipped the ball wide.
14¹A free-kick from FASSNACHT flew over.
18¹NMECHA's shot was well held by TURNER.
27¹MEITÉ beat four Manchester City players and slammed a great chance just beyond the near post.
30¹A bad challenge on WOOD by INCE results in a booking.
32¹ESTUPIÑAN turned FASSNACHT but fired the ball into the arms of the Reading 'keeper.
34¹TURNER saved a beautiful shot from SÜLE.
40¹A cross from DELE-BASHIRU left TSIMIKAS in plenty of space but he scuffed his shot.
41¹GOAL!! A wonderful dummy from MEITÉ allowed FASSNACHT to lay a lovely ball off to TSIMIKAS who drilled the ball into the back of the net. (1-0 Reading)
GOAL!! A penalty was awarded to Reading, after ESTUPIÑAN had fouled MEITÉ which NAMASO easily converted. (2-0 Reading)
A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing Manchester City 'keeper.
SÉRGIO GÓMEZ's shot was well saved by the Reading 'keeper.
26²ESTUPIÑAN headed wide.
33²A header from INCE was kicked off the line by SÜLE.
36²A weak strike from FASSNACHT rolled agonisingly wide.
36²A thirty yard drive from WOOD caused the Reading 'keeper no problem.
39²A mix up in the Manchester City defence enabled NAMASO to blast the ball inches over.
40²GOAL!! A short backpass by LANGÅS enabled WOOD to nip in and slip the ball past the 'keeper. (2-1 Reading)
43²A corner fell to MEITÉ who nodded the ball wide.
46²NAMASO rasped the ball through a ruck of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left.
47²SÜLE shot wide.

 
Reading
 
League position: 14
Home league form: LXLX
Overall league form: XLLLXWLX
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Matt TURNER1Igor AKINFEEV(c)
Tom HOLMES2Thomas MEUNIER
(c)Konstantinos TSIMIKAS3Pervis ESTUPIÑAN
Tom DELE-BASHIRU4Yangel HERRERA
MURILLO Santiago5Niklas SÜLE
Sondre LANGÅS6Caleb OKOLI
Tom INCE7Tommy DOYLE
Christian FASSNACHT8SÉRGIO GÓMEZ Martin
(p)Danny NAMASO9Chris WOOD(p)
(f)Lewis BAKER10Lukas NMECHA(f)
Yakou MEITÉ11Orri ÓSKARSSON
Manager
Tom McINTYRE  12  DOUGLAS COSTA de Souza
Mateusz LIS  13  Thomas STRAKOSHA
Femi AZEEZ  14  CARLOS Roberto FORBS
Tyrell ASHCROFT  15  Serge AURIER
Ollie ARBLASTER  16Josh WILSON-ESBRAND
 
Manchester City
 
League position: 2
Away league form: WWLW
Overall league form: WWWWOLWW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Reading 2 Manchester City 1
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 24,003, Stadium: Madejski, Referee: Graham Horwood 5½)

Tsimikas 41¹, Namaso 4² (pen)
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Wood 40²
 ÓskarssonóWilson-Esbrand 11²
  
Dele-Bashiru 3¹, Ince 30¹ 
14
812
42
68
83
1411
46
47%53%
Man of the match: Sérgio Gómez Martin