Blackpool 1-0 Reading: result and report

Championship · Saturday 24 August 2013

Result

Blackpool 1-0 Reading

Championship · Saturday 24 August 2013, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Blackpool · Reading · Championship predictions

Blackpool 1-0 Reading: match report

Blackpool beat Reading 1-0 in the Championship on Saturday 24 August 2013. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Tom Barkhuizen of Blackpool in the 75th minute.

Discipline: Blackpool received 1 yellow card; Reading received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Blackpool were 4th on 7 points from 3 and Reading 8th on 5 points from 3. Blackpool went on to finish that season 20th with 46 points, and Reading 7th with 71.

Blackpool lined up in a 4-4-2 and Reading in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Blackpool wins, 1 draw and 3 for Reading.

Going into the match Blackpool's last five read D-W-W and Reading's D-D-W.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 53'Yellow card · Chris BashamBlackpool
  • 71'Yellow card · Danny GuthrieReading
  • 75'Goal · Tom BarkhuizenBlackpool · 1-0

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Blackpool 2, draws 1, Reading 3.

Team news

Blackpool expected line-up (4-4-2)

Matthew Gilks, Alex Baptiste, Stephen Crainey, Isaiah Osbourne, Ludovic Sylvestre, Chris Basham, Matt Phillips, Tom Ince, Gary Taylor-Fletcher, Neal Eardley, Ian Ross Evatt

Reading expected line-up (4-4-2)

Alex Simon McCarthy, Chris Gunter, Sean Morrison, Adrian Mariappa, Stephen Kelly, Danny Guthrie, Jem Karacan, Jobi McAnuff, Garath McCleary, Pavel Pogrebnyak, Hal Robson-Kanu