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19¹	GOAL!! A free-kick was punched clear by the 'keeper, BALE was first to the loose ball and played the ball to RAÚL to drive in. (1-0 Reading)
30¹	FORLÁN rasped the ball through a crowd of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
31¹	BECKHAM beat SANTACROCE and hit the ball to RAÚL who toe-poked his effort wide.
31¹	HELMES beat three Tottenham Hotspur players and thundered a golden opportunity inches over.
35¹	GOAL!! CHIVU made space for FORLÁN who, after an interchange of passes twenty-five yards out, rammed the ball past the 'keeper. (1-1)
45¹	A fine ball from GILBERTO SILVA on the left found FORLÁN who scuffed his effort just beyond the far post.
6²	HLEB made space on the right and knocked the ball to RAÚL who rasped the ball over.
6²	A free-kick from HELMES floated just wide.
8²	A cross from GILBERTO SILVA left JOVETIC in plenty of space but he scuffed his shot.
10²	A twenty yard shot from AGBONLAHOR caused STEKELENBURG no problem.
15²	The 'keeper was able to claw away a tame shot from FORLÁN.
16²	JOVETIC's shot was well held by STEKELENBURG.
19²	GOAL!! A delightful drive from HLEB was punched clear by the 'keeper only as far as RAÚL who drove the ball past the stranded 'keeper. (2-1 Reading)
21²	A tame strike from FORLÁN rolled agonisingly wide.
24²	ROLFES ran onto a great ball from BECKHAM but hit his effort wide.
29²	CASTRO chipped the ball to FORLÁN who flicked it inches over.
30²	CASTRO headed wide.
31²	A corner found RAÚL who fired an effort just wide.
34²	GOAL!! An energetic HLEB ran down the right wing and pulled the ball back for ROLFES to crack home. (3-1 Reading)
37²	A pin-point pass fell to RAÚL and his deadly effort raced narrowly over.
40²	HELMES waltzed away from GILBERTO SILVA and stroked a tame shot well wide.
47²	A shot from FORLÁN was kicked off the line by GRYGERA.

Tottenham Hotspur

League position:

Home league form:

WXLW

Overall league form:

LWXXLLXL

Formation:

4-4-2

Line-ups

RUI Pedro PATRÍCIO	5½	1	6½	Maarten STEKELENBURG
Gonzalo CASTRO	6½	2	7½	Zdenek GRYGERA
^(c)Cristian CHIVU	8	3	7½	Gareth BALE
Fabiano SANTACROCE	6½	4	8	Claude MAKÉLÉLÉ
Cristian ZAPATA	7½	5	7	Per KRØLDRUP
Simon KJÆR	6½	6	7	Gabriel MILITO
^(f)Ashley YOUNG	7	7	7	David BECKHAM^(c)
Gabriel AGBONLAHOR	7½	8	6½	Simon ROLFES
Stevan JOVETIC	7½	9	6	Patrick HELMES
GILBERTO Aparecido da SILVA	7	10	6	RAÚL González^(p,f)
^(p)Diego FORLÁN	6½	11	6½	Aleksandr HLEB
Nick marsh	Manager			Nick HARPIN
Gary MEDEL		12		Tomás HÜBSCHMAN
Grégory COUPET		13		Erwin MULDER
Davide SANTON		14		Jérémy MENEZ
Marco VERRATTI		15		El Hadji DIOUF
SANDRO Ranieri		16		Ryan FRAUGHAN

Reading

League position:

Away league form:

WLLW

Overall league form:

WWXLLWLX

Formation:

4-1-3-2

Statistics

Tottenham Hotspur 1 Reading 3

(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 36,069, Stadium: White Hart Lane, Referee: Andre Marriner 6)

Forlán 35¹

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Shots saved

Possession

Raúl 19¹, Raúl 19², Rolfes 34²

46%

54%

¶ Man of the match: Cristian Chivu ¶