Middlesbrough 0-1 Reading: result and report
Championship · Saturday 30 August 2014
Result
Middlesbrough 0-1 Reading
Championship · Saturday 30 August 2014, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Middlesbrough 0-1 Reading: match report
Middlesbrough lost to Reading 0-1 in the Championship on Saturday 30 August 2014. The half-time score was 0-1.
The only goal came from Simon Cox of Reading in the 7th minute.
Discipline: Middlesbrough received 2 yellow cards; Reading received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Middlesbrough were 12th on 6 points from 4 and Reading 18th on 4 points from 4. Middlesbrough went on to finish that season 4th with 89 points, and Reading 20th with 49.
Middlesbrough lined up in a 4-2-3-1 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 L-W-L-W and Reading's L-L-W-D.
Key events
- 7'Goal · Simon Cox
- 37'Yellow card · Grant Leadbitter
- 68'Yellow card · Hope Akpan
- 76'Yellow card · Albert Adomah
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
Middlesbrough expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Shay Given, Yuki Takahashi, George Friend, Ben Gibson, Albert Adomah, Grant Leadbitter, Dean Whitehead, Kei Kamara, Marvin Emnes, Mustapha Carayol
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