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Commentary
3¹A bad challenge gets OKOYE a yellow card.
4¹O'RILEY floated the ball to GUSTO who fired it wide.
6¹GOAL!! With his back to goal BALLO swivelled and rattled the ball past OKOYE. (1-0 Reading)
8¹The motionless Birmingham City 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from AZPILICUETA fell just wide.
9¹A free-kick from GORDON floated over.
10¹GOAL!! A tackle from AZPILICUETA gave Reading a free-kick thirty yards out which HENDRICK slammed past the 'keeper. (2-0 Reading)
12¹HENDRICK ran onto a delightful ball from O'RILEY but hit his effort wide.
13¹VASSILEV booked for dangerous play.
17¹FREY was put clear by ARMSTRONG and he nutmegged the 'keeper but drilled his shot just beyond the far post.
19¹A wonderful save prevented BALLO from scoring an exceptional goal.
35¹LUNEV did well to hold onto a fierce strike from VASSILEV.
41¹A header from FREY was booted off the line by SARR.
42¹GOAL!! After BALLO was pulled to the ground HEGLEY waved play-on and O'RILEY went on to easily score. (3-0 Reading)
0²DYBALA rifled an easy chance past the lefthand post.
3²GOAL!! After being forced wide ARMSTRONG managed to ram the ball in from the narrowest of angles. (3-1 Reading)
4²GOAL!! A weak drive from JAMES seemed to hold no problem for the Reading 'keeper but the ball somehow squirmed into the net. (3-2 Reading)
10²A mix up in the Reading defence enabled FREY to hammer an effort inches over.
12²A cross from INCE left BALLO in lots of space but he scuffed his shot.
17²VASSILEV rushed through the Reading defence but shot straight at the Reading 'keeper.
20²A fine dribble was ended by a good save by the advancing OKOYE.
24²A poor strike from LONGELO trickled agonisingly wide.
26²A good ball from SARR on the left found BALLO who scuffed his effort over the bar.
35²MASUAKU beat three Birmingham City players and drove a great chance over.
38²BAKER made space on the right and touched the ball to BALLO who fired the ball wide.
39²GOAL!! A great twenty yard shot from INCE rattled the post and in the ensuing meleé the ball was booted into the net by MASUAKU. (4-2 Reading)

 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 1
Home league form: WWOL
Overall league form: WWWWWWOW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Maduka OKOYE5 15½Andrei LUNEV
(c)Cesar AZPILICUETA7 26½Malo GUSTO
Emmanuel LONGELO6½37 Arthur MASUAKU
Denis ZAKARIA7 47 Matt O'RILEY
Luke McNALLY7 56½Malang SARR
Nico GORDON6 66½Tom McINTYRE
Tyler BUREY7 77 Tom INCE
Indiana VASSILEV6½86½Lewis BAKER
(p)Michael FREY7 97 Thierno BALLO(p)
(f)Jordan JAMES6½106½Jeff HENDRICK(f)
Sinclair ARMSTRONG6½117 Paulo DYBALA(c)
Manager
Ivan SUNJIC  12  Max AARONS
Pierluigi GOLLINI  13  Cican STANKOVIC
Lukas JUTKIEWICZ  147 Tyler BLACKETT
Marcel OAKLEY5½15  Michael MORRISON
Josh McEACHRAN  16  Nesta GUINNESS-WALKER
 
Reading
 
League position: 5
Away league form: LXLL
Overall league form: WLWXLLLW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Birmingham City 2 Reading 4
(Half-time: 0-3, Attendance: 34,700, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Grant Hegley 7½)

Armstrong 3², James 4²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Ballo 6¹, Hendrick 10¹, O'Riley 42¹, Masuaku 39²
GordonóOakley 25²O'RileyóBlackett 17²
  
Okoye 3¹, Vassilev 13¹ 
24
95
35
56
48
914
32
48%52%
Man of the match: Matt O'Riley