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6¹ JONES's shot was well held by the Blackburn Rovers 'keeper. 7¹ GOAL!! An inswinging corner hoofed out by TETEK was nudged into the net by SHORROCK. (1-0 Blackburn Rovers) 9¹ A accurate pass bobbled toward MARKANDAY and his right foot shot raced narrowly wide. 13¹ A shot from TIQUINHO held no problem for the 'keeper. 16¹ A fine run was ended by a good save by the oncoming Reading 'keeper. 17¹ MARKANDAY was put clear by O'RIORDAN and he pulled away from WARD but rammed his shot wide. 19¹ GOAL!! A beautiful inswinging corner was forced in at the far post by TIQUINHO. (1-1) 24¹ GOAL!! A strike from FAGAN-WALCOTT was cleared off the line only for SWIFT to fire the ball home. (2-1 Reading) 32¹ MARKANDAY fired a left foot shot just wide from twenty-five yards out. 38¹ GOAL!! After JENKS was bundled over the referee waved play-on and D'AMBROSIO went on to comfortably score. (3-1 Reading) 6² A tame shot from MARKANDAY bounced agonisingly wide. 7² A mix up in the Blackburn Rovers defence enabled HILL to blast the ball inches over. 9² MARKANDAY fired the ball through a ruck of players but the Reading 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right. 12² MARKANDAY headed wide. 15² A cross from DONOVAN left SHORROCK in plenty of space but he snapped at his shot. 21² JONES raced past EDUN but blasted the ball into the arms of the 'keeper. 22² A good ball from JONES on the left fell to D'AMBROSIO who sliced his effort wide. 24² D'AMBROSIO rushed a simple chance. 26² JENKS made space on the left and dragged the ball to TIQUINHO who fired the ball wide. 28² CHAMBERS beat two Reading players and slammed a golden opportunity just wide. 37² A shot from SWIFT was smothered by PEARS. 38² POKU chipped the ball to DONOVAN who fired it wide.

Blackburn Rovers   League position: - Home league form: WLOO Overall league form: WXLLOOLO Formation: 4-2-3-1

Line-ups Aynsley PEARS 6  1 5½ Jed WARD Adetayo EDUN 7½ 2 7½ Danilo D'AMBROSIO Luke CHAMBERS 6  3 7  Ryan JONES Karoy ANDERSON 6½ 4 7½ Emil KRAFTH(c) (c)Hayden CARTER 7½ 5 7  Malachi FAGAN-WALCOTT Connor O'RIORDAN 7  6 7  Finn COUSIN-DAWSON Ethan ERHAHON 7  7 5½ Dylan HILL Jack SHORROCK 6½ 8 6½ Teddy JENKS (p)Romelle DONOVAN 7  9 6½ Dejan TETEK(p) (f)Kwame POKU 7  10 6½ John SWIFT(f) Dilan MARKANDAY 6½ 11 7  TIQUINHO Scott Smillie Manager Scott Smillie Seán ROUGHAN    12    Finlay ARMSTRONG Josh GRIFFITHS    13    Tiernan BROOKS Harvey VALE    14    Casey PETTIT Ricky-Jade JONES    15    Zak EMMERSON Kelvin EHIBHATIOMHAN    16    Alen HALILOVIC

Reading   League position: - Away league form: LLLL Overall league form: LLXLLLLL Formation: 3-2-4-1

Statistics

Blackburn Rovers 1 Reading 3 (Half-time: 1-3, Attendance: 11,051, Stadium: Ewood Park, Referee: Mellin 7½, stadium work in progress) Shorrock 7¹ Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Tiquinho 19¹, Swift 24¹, D'Ambrosio 38¹             4 4 0 10 9 5 3 8 13 6 16 14 2 4 55% 45% ¶ Man of the match: Emil Krafth ¶