Preston North End 2-3 Reading: result and report

Championship · Saturday 19 February 2022

Result

Preston North End 2-3 Reading

Championship · Saturday 19 February 2022, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-2

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Preston North End 2-3 Reading: match report

Preston North End lost to Reading 2-3 in the Championship on Saturday 19 February 2022. The half-time score was 0-2.

Lucas João opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Preston North End's goals came from Daniel Johnson (57') and Cameron Archer (74'). Reading scored through Lucas João (2'), Lucas João (19') and John Swift (55').

Discipline: Preston North End received 1 yellow card; Reading received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Preston North End were 11th on 45 points from 32 and Reading 22nd on 29 points from 31. Preston North End went on to finish that season 13th with 64 points, and Reading 22nd with 47.

Preston North End lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Reading in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Lucas João of Reading (9.1), ahead of John Swift (8.9).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Preston North End wins, 1 draw and 6 for Reading.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Goal · Lucas JoãoReading · 0-1
  • 19'Goal · Lucas JoãoReading · 0-2
  • 55'Goal · John SwiftReading · 0-3
  • 57'Goal · Daniel JohnsonPreston North End · 1-3
  • 74'Goal · Cameron ArcherPreston North End · 2-3
  • 90+5'Yellow card · S. van den BergPreston North End

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Preston North End 3, draws 1, Reading 6.

Team news

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Preston North End line-up (3-4-1-2)

Daniel Iversen, Sepp van den Berg, Patrick Bauer, Andrew Hughes, Brad Potts, Ben Whiteman, Alan Browne, Scott Sinclair, Daniel Johnson, Emil Riis, Cameron Archer

Reading line-up (4-2-3-1)

Karl Hein, Andy Yiadom, Michael Morrison, Tom Holmes, Abdul Rahman Baba, Danny Drinkwater, Andrew Farai Rinomhota, Tom Ince, John Swift, Junior Hoilett, Lucas João