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GOAL!! A shot from DAVID NERES was cleared off the line only for POLITANO to drive the ball home. (1-0 Reading)
YAMAL scuffed an easy chance.
10¹A poor foul gets GUIRASSY a yellow card.
15¹A accurate pass fell to YAMAL and his left foot shot went narrowly wide.
19¹GOAL!! A goalmouth scramble culminated with DOUÉ firing the ball into the net. (1-1)
28¹VERBRUGGEN did well to hold onto a powerful strike from POLITANO.
29¹The stunned RULLI was all agog as a backpass from WILLIAM CARVALHO dropped just over.
30¹A left foot shot from YAMAL was pushed over by RULLI.
31¹A penalty box scramble resulted in KARSDORP knocking a low shot wide.
40¹GOAL!! YAMAL hit a swerving twenty yard shot past the hapless Reading 'keeper. (2-1 Stoke City)
41¹HALLER ran onto a delightful ball from WILLIAM CARVALHO but dragged his effort wide of the righthand post.
42¹MINGS beat four Stoke City players and stroked a shot over the bar.
A shot from YAMAL was headed off the line by JOSÉ FONTE.
HALLER headed wide.
A free-kick from REUS flew just beyond the far post.
10²A cross from KRUNIC left KARSDORP in lots of space but he scuffed his shot.
12²YAMAL booked by the referee for a cynical challenge.
18²A poor strike from REUS bounced agonisingly wide.
19²YAMAL kicked the ball wide of the righthand post from just inside the area.
22²Uncertainty in the Reading defence enabled YAMAL to hit an effort just beyond the near post.
26²DOUÉ beat KRUNIC and placed the ball to YAMAL who pulled his shot wide.
38²A good effort from YAMAL scraped the outside of the righthand post.

 
Stoke City
 
League position: 12
Home league form: LXXL
Overall league form: LLXXXWLW
Formation: 4-4-2
Line-ups
Bart VERBRUGGEN1Gerónimo RULLI
Levi COLWILL2Rick KARSDORP
Angelo STILLER3Christian GÜNTER
Warren ZAÏRE-EMERY4WILLIAM Silva CARVALHO
(c)Robin LE NORMAND5Tyrone MINGS
Mickey VAN DE VEN6JOSÉ Miguel FONTE(c)
(f)Johan BAKAYOKO7DAVID NERES Campos
Désiré DOUÉ8Matteo POLITANO
Serhou GUIRASSY9Sébastien HALLER(p)
Marco REUS10Rade KRUNIC(f)
(p)Lamine YAMAL11Yakou MEITÉ
Anthony ABBEYManager
Castello LUKEBA  12  LUCAS Eduardo JOÃO
Michele DI GREGORIO  13 
Sverre NYPAN  14Andy CARROLL
Luka VUSKOVIC  15  Omar RICHARDS
Benjamin SESKO  16  Tom LEES
 
Reading
 
League position: 20
Away league form: LWOL
Overall league form: LXWXOWOW
Formation: 4-3-3
Stoke City go through to the next round
Statistics
Stoke City 2 Reading 1
(Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 30,043, Stadium: bet365, Referee: Keith Stroud 7½, TV: highlights)

Doué 19¹, Yamal 40¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Politano 4¹
 PolitanoóCarroll 3²
  
Guirassy 10¹, Yamal 12² 
310
84
121
72
106
178
50
47%53%
Man of the match: Johan Bakayoko