Queens Park Rangers 3-1 Reading: result and report

Championship · Saturday 6 November 2010

Result

Queens Park Rangers 3-1 Reading

Championship · Saturday 6 November 2010, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Queens Park Rangers 3-1 Reading: match report

Queens Park Rangers defeated Reading 3-1 in the Championship on Saturday 6 November 2010. The half-time score was 1-0.

A. Taarabt opened the scoring in the 27th minute. Queens Park Rangers's goals came from A. Taarabt (27', penalty), Alejandro Faurlin (61') and Mark Smith (71'). Reading scored through Ingo Goetze (68').

Discipline: Queens Park Rangers received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Reading received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Queens Park Rangers were 2nd on 30 points from 14 and Reading 10th on 20 points from 14. Queens Park Rangers went on to finish that season 1st with 88 points, and Reading 5th with 79.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Queens Park Rangers win, 2 draws and 3 for Reading.

Going into the match Queens Park Rangers's last five read D-D-D-D-W and Reading's W-W-L-L-D.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 27'Penalty goal · A. TaarabtQueens Park Rangers · 1-0
  • 30'Yellow card · Matthew MillsReading
  • 31'Yellow card · Shaun DerryQueens Park Rangers
  • 44'Red card · Bradley OrrQueens Park Rangers
  • 60'Yellow card · Jem KaracanReading
  • 61'Goal · Alejandro FaurlinQueens Park Rangers · 2-0
  • 68'Goal · Ingo GoetzeReading · 2-1
  • 71'Goal · Mark SmithQueens Park Rangers · 3-1
  • 87'Yellow card · Leon ClarkeQueens Park Rangers
  • 90'Yellow card · Michail AntonioReading

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Queens Park Rangers 1, draws 2, Reading 3.

Team news

Queens Park Rangers line-up

Paddy Kenny, Bradley Orr, Kaspars Gorkss, Kyle Walker, Matthew Connolly, Adel Taarabt, Alejandro Faurlin, Jamie Mackie, Rob Hulse, Tommy Smith, Shaun Derry

Reading line-up

Adam Federici, Andy Griffin, Matthew Mills, Zurab Khizanishvili, Ian Harte, Jem Karacan, Jay Tabb, Jobi McAnuff, Brian Howard, Shane Long, Hal Robson-Kanu