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Commentary
The Reading 'keeper saved a beautiful shot from CAMPBELL.
MARSHALL booked for dangerous play.
A corner found BALLO who turned the ball over the bar.
CAMPBELL's shot was well held by the 'keeper.
10¹MARSHALL made space on the right and touched the ball to GUSTO who touched the ball wide.
18¹BUTLAND was able to block a weak header from OBITA.
22¹A good effort from BALLO scraped the outside of the righthand post.
24¹An inswinging corner was fired into the arms of LUNEV by ALLEN.
34¹GOAL!! An energetic POWELL ran down the right wing and touched the ball back for SHAQIRI to flick home. (1-0 Stoke City)
35¹GOAL!! A great bit of skill enabled BALLO to run through the Stoke City defence and score. (1-1)
40¹OBITA rasped the ball through a crowd of players but the Stoke City 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left.
40¹A mix up in the Reading defence enabled CAMPBELL to crack an effort inches wide.
42¹A wonderful save prevented BALLO from scoring a lovely goal.
INCE rifled a simple chance past the far post.
10²SHAQIRI headed inches over.
27²A cross from MARSHALL left DYBALA in lots of space but he scuffed his shot.
31²A pin-point pass fell to SHAQIRI and his right foot effort flew narrowly over.
32²GOAL!! Stoke City's MARTINS-INDI beat two defenders before firing just inside the Reading 'keeper's near post. (2-1 Stoke City)
36²A free-kick from O'RILEY floated just wide.
40²MARSHALL sent off.
42²A penalty box meleé resulted in CAMPBELL knocking a low shot over.
46²The referee books INCE.

 
Stoke City
 
League position: 10
Home league form: WLWW
Overall league form: WLLWWWXW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
(c)Jack BUTLAND1Andrei LUNEV
Max JOHNSTON2Malo GUSTO
Bruno MARTINS-INDI3Arthur MASUAKU
Joe ALLEN4Matt O'RILEY
Ben WILMOT5Malang SARR
Danny BATTH6Max AARONS
Tom SPARROW7Tom INCE
Xherdan SHAQIRI8Jordan OBITA
(p)Tyrese CAMPBELL9Thierno BALLO(p)
(f)Julien NGOY10Callum MARSHALL(f)
Nick POWELL11Paulo DYBALA(c)
Manager
Connor TAYLOR  12  Malik MOTHERSILLE
Adam DAVIES  13  Cican STANKOVIC
James McCLEAN  14  Lewis BAKER
Scott HOGAN  15  Andy CARROLL
Matt BAKER16Michael MORRISON
 
Reading
 
League position: 13
Away league form: XLLL
Overall league form: WXXLXLLL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Stoke City 2 Reading 1
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 25,648, Stadium: bet365, Referee: Andy Woolmer 6)

Shaqiri 34¹, Martins-Indi 32²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Ballo 35¹
PowellóBaker 11²BalloóMorrison 19²
 Marshall 40²
 Marshall 1¹, Ince 46²
65
420
03
54
46
910
23
47%53%
Man of the match: Joe Allen