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0¹ A corner found WHYTE who nodded the ball over. 6¹ A clever pass from BALLO was flicked goalbound by DYBALA only for the 'keeper to claw away. 10¹ SMITH beat four Reading players and fired an effort wide. 14¹ The referee yellow cards INCE for violent conduct against MITCHELL. 23¹ GOAL!! A long ball from HUNT down the middle bobbled toward the lurking SMALLWOOD who blasted a right foot shot into the back of the net. (1-0 Stevenage) 25¹ CONLON worked the ball to WHYTE, HOUNTONDJI latched onto his pass and hoofed the ball within easy reach of the Reading 'keeper. 29¹ The motionless 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from SMALLWOOD fell just wide. 29¹ SMALLWOOD was put clear by CONLON and he pulled away from the Reading 'keeper but drilled his shot over the bar. 33¹ GOAL!! A terrible clearance dropped to MARSHALL who scuffed a shot goalward, luckily DYBALA was on hand to crack the ball into the net. (1-1) 35¹ A thirty yard shot from WHYTE caused the 'keeper no problem. 41¹ A great save prevented OKKELS from scoring a great goal. 45¹ A penalty box scramble resulted in HOUNTONDJI driving a low shot wide. 4² GOAL!! A PASKOTSI run down the right resulted in a nice cross for SMITH to fire in. (2-1 Stevenage) 18² HOUNTONDJI ran onto a delightful ball from WHYTE but fired his shot wide of the righthand post. 18² GOAL!! A deep cross from GUSTO on the left was nodded home by DYBALA at the far post. (2-2) 19² A cynical tackle gets MORRISON a yellow card. 21² GOAL!! GUSTO tried to play the ball out of the Reading penalty area but was tackled by SMITH who fired the ball to HOUNTONDJI for an easy tap in. (3-2 Stevenage) 26² OKKELS headed just beyond the near post. 31² A free-kick from MITCHELL flew over. 39² A pin-point pass was collected by OKKELS and his looping shot went narrowly over. 41² OKKELS's shot was well saved by the Reading 'keeper. 48² WHYTE's shot beat LUNEV but rebounded off the Reading crossbar.

Stevenage   League position: - Home league form: WLWW Overall league form: WWWLLXWX Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Jakub STOLARCZYK 6  1 7  Andrei LUNEV Jack HUNT 6½ 2 7½ Malo GUSTO (c)Tyrick MITCHELL 8  3 8  Arthur MASUAKU Tom CONLON 7  4 8½ Matt O'RILEY Maksim PASKOTSI 6½ 5 8½ Malang SARR Luther WILDIN 6  6 6  Max AARONS Gavin WHYTE 7  7 6½ Tom INCE Jeppe OKKELS 7  8 6  Jordan OBITA (p)Michael SMITH 7  9 7  Thierno BALLO(p) (f)Richard SMALLWOOD 6½ 10 5½ Callum MARSHALL(f) Andréas HOUNTONDJI 6½ 11 7½ Paulo DYBALA(c) Manager Terence VANCOOTEN    12    Malik MOTHERSILLE Krisztián HEGYI    13    Cican STANKOVIC Jeriel DORSETT    14    Lewis BAKER Arthur READ    15    Andy CARROLL Ryan JOHNSON    16 6½ Michael MORRISON

Reading   League position: - Away league form: LXLL Overall league form: WLWXXLXL Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Stevenage 3 Reading 2 (Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 6,918, Stadium: Broadhall Way, Referee: Graham Laws 5½) Smallwood 23¹, Smith 4², Hountondji 21² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Dybala 33¹, Dybala 18²   BalloóMorrison 19²       Ince 14¹, Morrison 19² 2 1 4 23 3 5 8 4 10 3 18 7 5 2 50% 50% ¶ Man of the match: Malang Sarr ¶