Reading Football Club News: January 2025

Reading Drop Out Of Top Six

18 January 2025
By Hob Nob Anyone?

The outcome of a football matches is, to a greater or lesser extent, determined by overall team performances or, more often than not, by specific lapses in concentration and basic errors. This result was a perfect example of all those elements coming together to produce a resounding defeat for a buoyant Reading team against a team in the middle of a poor run of results. Reading dominated possession, mainly due to playing football in their own half, while County dictated the play recording eight shots on target to Reading's one. Too often Reading resorted to the long ball, playing into the hands of County with their significant height advantage at the back. READ MORE...

MATCH REPORT: Reading 1 Stockport 3

Reading Exit FA Cup After Extra Time

11 January 2025
By Hob Nob Anyone?

A team looking likely to be playing in the Premier League next season, having only lost two league games conceding only a miserly nine goals in twenty-six matches, was bound to prove difficult to overcome. Nevertheless, Reading must take credit, after a shaky start, for taking Burnley to extra time, before succumbing to two goals from in-form striker Zian Flemming this Third Round cup tie.
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MATCH REPORT: Reading 1 Burnley 1 (FA Cup Third Round)