Middlesbrough 3-0 Reading: result and report
Championship · Sunday 29 December 2013
Result
Middlesbrough 3-0 Reading
Championship · Sunday 29 December 2013, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Middlesbrough 3-0 Reading: match report
Middlesbrough beat Reading 3-0 in the Championship on Sunday 29 December 2013. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Albert Adomah opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Middlesbrough's goals came from Albert Adomah (12'), Grant Leadbitter (36') and Grant Leadbitter (82', penalty). Reading did not score.
Discipline: Middlesbrough received 3 yellow cards; Reading received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Middlesbrough were 16th on 26 points from 22 and Reading 8th on 34 points from 22. Middlesbrough went on to finish that season 12th with 64 points, and Reading 7th with 71.
Middlesbrough lined up in a 4-4-2 and Reading in a 4-4-1-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Middlesbrough wins, 3 draws and 4 for Reading.
Going into the match Middlesbrough's last five read W-W-L-D-L and Reading's L-L-W-L-W.
Key events
- 12'Goal · Albert Adomah
- 33'Yellow card · Kaspars Gorkss
- 36'Goal · Grant Leadbitter
- 52'Second yellow · Kaspars Gorkss
- 74'Yellow card · Dean Whitehead
- 75'Yellow card · M. Emnes
- 81'Yellow card · Alex Pearce
- 82'Penalty goal · Grant Leadbitter
- 88'Yellow card · Jobi McAnuff
- 90'Yellow card · Grant Leadbitter
Head-to-head
Team news
Middlesbrough expected line-up (4-4-2)
Jason Steele, Rhys Williams, George Friend, Ben Gibson, Yuki Takahashi, Albert Adomah, Mustapha Carayol, Dean Whitehead, Grant Leadbitter, Marvin Emnes, Jonathan Woodgate
Reading expected line-up (4-4-1-1)
Alex Simon McCarthy, Chris Gunter, Sean Morrison, Stephen Kelly, Adrian Mariappa, Danny Guthrie, Garath McCleary, Jem Karacan, Pavel Pogrebnyak, Hal Robson-Kanu