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4¹ SEMENYO headed the ball wide from just inside the area. 14¹ A strike from SEMENYO held little difficulty for the Reading 'keeper. 16¹ SWIFT worked the ball to JENKS, HILL controlled his cross and kicked the ball within easy reach of the 'keeper. 18¹ GOAL!! After being forced wide D'AMBROSIO was able to force the ball in from the narrowest of angles. (1-0 Reading) 19¹ GOAL!! An imaginative TOMIYASU played a great ball down the right to HWANG who seemingly in an offside position went on to comfortably score. (1-1) 22¹ GOAL!! A goalmouth meleé culminated with MANÉ firing the ball into the net. (2-1 Newcastle United) 24¹ D'AMBROSIO headed inches over. 34¹ MANÉ was put clear by OLIVERA and he pulled away from the Reading 'keeper but drilled his shot just beyond the near post. 39¹ TIQUINHO brought the ball away from SARABIA and poked a tame shot well wide. 42¹ GOAL!! A long range effort was deflected into the path of MANÉ who fired the ball past the helpless Reading 'keeper. (3-1 Newcastle United) 9² HWANG cautioned by the ref for a high tackle. 14² The hapless Reading 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from SWIFT fell just wide. 18² TETEK beat PAU TORRES and whacked the ball to JONES who fumbled his shot wide. 21² The 'keeper did well to hold onto a fierce strike from TIQUINHO. 22² A penalty box scramble resulted in SEMENYO driving a low shot wide. 26² A poor strike from HWANG bounced agonisingly wide. 28² GOAL!! JONES hit a swerving thirty yard shot past the motionless Newcastle United 'keeper. (3-2 Newcastle United) 32² A free-kick from HWANG floated wide. 34² GOAL!! Some good work by ANSU FATI on the left, left PAU TORRES yards clear, and he pulled away from WARD and stroked the ball into the back of the net. (4-2 Newcastle United) 38² SEMENYO beat a number of Reading players and blasted an effort wide. 39² OXLADE-CHAMBERLAIN scuffed a simple chance. 41² A cross from SARABIA left TOMIYASU in lots of space but he rushed his shot.

Reading   League position: 23 Home league form: LLXL Overall league form: XLLLXLLL Formation: 3-2-4-1

Line-ups Jed WARD 4½ 1 5  Jack BUTLAND Danilo D'AMBROSIO 7  2 6½ Takehiro TOMIYASU Ryan JONES 5½ 3 6½ Mathías OLIVERA (c)Emil KRAFTH 6  4 6½ ANSU FATI(c) Malachi FAGAN-WALCOTT 6½ 5 6½ PAU Francisco TORRES Finn COUSIN-DAWSON 6½ 6 6  Sven BOTMAN Dylan HILL 6  7 7  Pablo SARABIA Teddy JENKS 6  8 7½ Orkun KÖKÇÜ(f) (p)Dejan TETEK 5½ 9 7  HWANG Hee-chan(p) (f)John SWIFT 6  10 7  Sadio MANÉ TIQUINHO 7  11 6½ Antoine SEMENYO Scott Smillie Manager Leo Harvey Finlay ARMSTRONG 7  12    Jack PORTER Tiernan BROOKS    13    Liam DELAP Casey PETTIT    14 6  Alex OXLADE-CHAMBERLAIN Zak EMMERSON    15 7  Arsen ZAKHARYAN Alen HALILOVIC    16    Ben PARKINSON

Newcastle United   League position: 5 Away league form: WOWX Overall league form: WWOLWWXW Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Reading 2 Newcastle United 4 (Half-time: 1-3, Attendance: 20,131, Stadium: Madejski, Referee: Mick Russell 6) D'Ambrosio 18¹, Jones 28² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Hwang 19¹, Mané 22¹, Mané 42¹, Pau Torres 34² KrafthóArmstrong 1² ManéóZakharyan 19², HwangóOxlade-Chamberlain 37²       Hwang 9² 3 4 8 6 1 0 7 8 4 11 11 19 4 4 38% 62% ¶ Man of the match: Orkun Kökçü ¶