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Commentary

1¹ A delightful save prevented ADEBAYOR from scoring a great goal. 4¹ GOAL!! Unlucky PEROTTI hit the crossbar before RUBEN stroked the ball into the back of the net as IRELAND failed to clear. (1-0 Darlington) 5¹ ZUBER's header was well saved by the 'keeper. 13¹ GOAL!! The Reading 'keeper got into difficulty with a backpass from FERNANDO NAVARRO and MEHMEDI was able to poke the ball into the back of the net. (2-0 Darlington) 20¹ BURLAK flicked an easy chance past the righthand post. 24¹ The hapless Reading 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from HONDA fell just over. 30¹ ADEBAYOR's shot beat the Darlington 'keeper but rebounded off the Darlington crossbar. 33¹ A accurate pass found SIMÃO and his looping shot went narrowly over. 35¹ The 'keeper dived to his left to block a lovely shot from Reading's ADEBAYOR. 42¹ LAMELA beat four Darlington players and blasted a great chance inches wide. 43¹ GOAL!! A poor shot from RAFINHA seemed to hold no problem for the Darlington 'keeper but the ball somehow squirmed over the line. (2-1 Darlington) 1² A great effort from LAMELA scraped the outside of the post. 4² GOAL!! After some patient play on the left LAMELA came inside and hit the ball in off the post. (2-2) 8² ADEBAYOR ran onto a wonderful ball from IRELAND but blasted his shot wide of the goal. 11² HENRIQUE snapped at an easy chance. 19² A corner fell to ZUBER who turned an effort inches wide. 30² A tame shot from ADEBAYOR rolled agonisingly wide. 34² PIZARRO chipped the ball to MEHMEDI who flicked it just beyond the near post. 35² A mix up in the Reading defence enabled ANDERSON to fire an effort inches wide. 36² A penalty box meleé resulted in LAMELA knocking the ball over. 37² GOAL!! A great shot from FERNANDO NAVARRO was palmed away by OBLAK only as far as HONDA who placed the ball past the stranded 'keeper. (3-2 Reading) 40² NAGATOMO was put clear by BURN and he raced past the Darlington 'keeper but struck his shot wide. 42² LAMELA headed inches wide.

Reading   League position: 12 Home league form: LWWW Overall league form: LLXWLWOW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Shay GIVEN 6½ 1 6  Jan OBLAK (c)RAFINHA 8½ 2 7  COKE Yuto NAGATOMO 7½ 3 7  Patrick VAN AANHOLT Milos KRASIC 7½ 4 6½ David PIZARRO(c) FERNANDO NAVARRO Corbacho 7½ 5 7  HENRIQUE Adriano Dan BURN 6½ 6 7  Taras BURLAK Keisuke HONDA 7½ 7 5½ ANDERSON Luís Erik LAMELA 6½ 8 6½ Steven ZUBER (p)Emmanuel ADEBAYOR 8  9 6½ Marco RUBEN(p) (f)Stephen IRELAND 7  10 6  Diego PEROTTI(f) SIMÃO Sabrosa 6  11 6½ Admir MEHMEDI Manager Urby EMANUELSON    12    Carlos CUÉLLAR Florian FROMLOWITZ    13    Jussi JÄÄSKELÄINEN JOAQUÍN Sánchez    14 6½ Bobby ZAMORA BOJAN Krkic    15 6½ Cristian MOLINARO Matt DOHERTY    16    Oleksandr ALIEV

Darlington   League position: 21 Away league form: XLWL Overall league form: WXLLXWWW Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Reading 3 Darlington 2 (Half-time: 1-2, Attendance: 45,486, Stadium: Madejski, Referee: Aris Galanopoulos 6) Rafinha 43¹, Lamela 4², Honda 37² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Ruben 4¹, Mehmedi 13¹   van AanholtóZamora 17², BurlakóMolinaro 20²         1 1 10 8 5 2 6 3 8 6 14 9 2 1 55% 45% ¶ Man of the match: Rafinha ¶