Cardiff City 3-1 Reading: result and report

Championship · Monday 2 January 2012

Result

Cardiff City 3-1 Reading

Championship · Monday 2 January 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 3-1

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Cardiff City 3-1 Reading: match report

Cardiff City won against Reading 3-1 in the Championship on Monday 2 January 2012. It was 3-1 at half-time.

Joe Mason opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Joe Mason (13'), A. Gunnarsson (19') and Kenny Miller (36'). Reading scored through Jobi McAnuff (45').

Discipline: Cardiff City received no yellow cards; Reading received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 4th on 42 points from 24 and Reading 5th on 39 points from 24. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 6th with 75 points, and Reading 2nd with 89.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Cardiff City wins, 6 draws and 2 for Reading.

Going into the match Cardiff City's last five read W-D-L-D-W and Reading's W-W-W-W-L.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Goal · Joe MasonCardiff City · 1-0
  • 19'Goal · A. GunnarssonCardiff City · 2-0
  • 36'Goal · Kenny MillerCardiff City · 3-0
  • 45'Goal · Jobi McAnuffReading · 3-1
  • 54'Yellow card · Jem KaracanReading
  • 83'Yellow card · M. LeigertwoodReading

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Cardiff City 2, draws 6, Reading 2.

Team news

Unavailable

Cardiff City line-up

Txiki Acaz, Andrew Taylor, Darcy Blake, Ben Turner, Peter Whittingham, D. Cowie, Aron Gunnarsson, Joe Ralls, Joe Mason, Mark Hudson, Kenny Miller

Reading line-up

Adam Federici, Alex Pearce, Kaspars Gorkss, Ian Harte, Shaun Cummings, Jem Karacan, Mikele Leigertwood, Jobi McAnuff, Jimmy Kébé, Simon Church, Noel Hunt