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4¹ SULEIMANOV floated the ball to SOLOMON who forced it wide. 6¹ A twenty-five yard shot from SPORAR caused the Reading 'keeper no problem. 6¹ SOLOMON stroked a simple chance past the lefthand post. 7¹ SULEIMANOV headed inches over. 9¹ A accurate pass was collected by COLBACK and his looping shot went narrowly over. 10¹ BREEZE dived to his right to save a fierce shot from Middlesbrough's SOLOMON. 15¹ COLBACK nodded the ball wide from just inside the area. 16¹ GOAL!! Showing plenty of skill SOLOMON dribbled past OAKLEY and lashed the ball past the Reading 'keeper. (1-0 Middlesbrough) 32¹ GOAL!! On the right wing LOCKYER collected a defender's clearance and hit it across the box for SPORAR to slip it into the back of the net. (2-0 Middlesbrough) 34¹ A corner found SPORAR who touched an effort just beyond the far post. 41¹ GOAL!! With his back to goal AKPOM wrong-footed the defence and rattled the ball past the 'keeper. (3-0 Middlesbrough) 9² A mix up in the Reading defence enabled SOLOMON to hit an effort just beyond the far post. 9² GOAL!! A beautiful outswinging corner was forced in at the far post by SOLOMON. (4-0 Middlesbrough) 14² GOAL!! GOMEZ MANCINI tried to play the ball out of the Reading penalty area but was tackled by AKPOM who fired the ball to SPORAR for an easy goal. (5-0 Middlesbrough) 18² GOAL!! A delightful run from LOCKYER gave AKPOM space on the left and SOLOMON flicked in his pin-point pass. (6-0 Middlesbrough) 22² The hapless Reading 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from McCANN fell just over. 27² A great effort from SOLOMON scraped the woodwork. 28² APPIAH-FORSON beat four Middlesbrough players and drove an effort over. 32² AKPOM whacked a left foot shot just beyond the far post from long range. 34² A good ball from SOLOMON on the right was collected by SPORAR who scuffed his effort over. 41² SOLOMON beat McCANN and fired the ball to BOLA who fired his shot wide. 45² SPORAR ran onto a great ball from COLBACK but pulled his shot wide of the goal.

Middlesbrough   League position: - Home league form: WW-- Overall league form: XWW----- Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Joe LUMLEY 7½ 1 6½ Gabriel BREEZE Marc BOLA 7  2 5½ Kai CORBETT Marco FRIEDL 8½ 3 5½ Zak BRUNT (c)Maximilian PHILIPP 8  4 6½ Kyron GORDON(c) Dael FRY 8  5 6½ Malachi FAGAN-WALCOTT Tom LOCKYER 7½ 6 6½ Marcel OAKLEY Magomed-Shapi SULEIMANOV 8  7 6  Charlie McCANN Manor SOLOMON 8  8 5½ Teddy JENKS (p)Andraz SPORAR 7½ 9 6  Keenan APPIAH-FORSON(p) (f)Jack COLBACK 8  10 5½ Anthony GOMEZ MANCINI(f) Chuba AKPOM 8  11 5½ Sonny LO-EVERTON Manager Scott Smillie Duncan WATMORE    12    Finlay ARMSTRONG Benoît COSTIL    13    Tiernan BROOKS Yasser LAROUCI    14    Aaron HENRY Matt CROOKS    15    Jack WELLS-MORRISON Ousmane DIAKITÉ    16    Kahrel REDDIN

Reading   League position: - Away league form: L--- Overall league form: LLXL---- Formation: 3-2-4-1

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Statistics

Middlesbrough 6 Reading 0 (Half-time: 3-0, Attendance: 27,467, Stadium: Riverside, Referee: Scott Mathieson 7½) Solomon 16¹, Sporar 32¹, Akpom 41¹, Solomon 9², Sporar 14², Solomon 18² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession               4 1 7 11 7 1 8 0 17 3 25 3 2 0 70% 30% ¶ Man of the match: Marco Friedl ¶