Newcastle United 4-1 Reading: result and report
Championship · Wednesday 17 August 2016
Result
Newcastle United 4-1 Reading
Championship · Wednesday 17 August 2016, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-1
Newcastle United 4-1 Reading: match report
Newcastle United beat Reading 4-1 in the Championship on Wednesday 17 August 2016. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Isaac Hayden opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Newcastle United's goals came from Isaac Hayden (20'), Matt Ritchie (50', penalty), Dwight Gayle (69') and Dwight Gayle (89'). Reading scored through Garath McCleary (45', penalty).
Discipline: Newcastle United received 1 yellow card; Reading received 5 yellow cards.
Going into the game Newcastle United were 19th on 1 point from 2 and Reading 16th on 3 points from 2. Newcastle United went on to finish that season 1st with 95 points, and Reading 3rd with 90.
Newcastle United lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Reading in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Dwight Gayle of Newcastle United (8.2), ahead of Matt Ritchie (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Newcastle United wins, 1 draw and 3 for Reading.
Key events
- 3'Yellow card · Dwight Gayle
- 19'Yellow card · Jordan Obita
- 20'Goal · Isaac Hayden
- 40'Yellow card · Danny Williams
- 45'Penalty goal · Garath McCleary
- 49'Yellow card · Chris Gunter
- 50'Penalty goal · Matt Ritchie
- 62'Yellow card · Yann Kermorgant
- 68'Yellow card · George Evans
- 69'Goal · Dwight Gayle
- 89'Goal · Dwight Gayle
Head-to-head
Team news
Newcastle United line-up (4-2-3-1)
Matz Sels, Vurnon Anita, Chancel Mbemba, Ciaran Clark, Paul Dummett, Isaac Hayden, Jonjo Shelvey, Matt Ritchie, Ayoze Pérez, Yoan Gouffran, Dwight Gayle
Reading expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Alex Simon McCarthy, Chris Gunter, Jordan Obita, Alex Pearce, Sean Morrison, Stephen Kelly, Danny Guthrie, Garath McCleary, Danny Williams, Pavel Pogrebnyak, Hal Robson-Kanu