Reading 1-0 Bristol City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 2 January 2016

Result

Reading 1-0 Bristol City

Championship · Saturday 2 January 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Reading 1-0 Bristol City: match report

Reading defeated Bristol City 1-0 in the Championship on Saturday 2 January 2016. The half-time score was 0-0.

The only goal came from Nick Blackman of Reading in the 90th minute.

Discipline: Reading received 4 yellow cards; Bristol City received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Reading were 12th on 30 points from 24 and Bristol City 22nd on 21 points from 24. Reading went on to finish that season 17th with 52 points, and Bristol City 18th with 52.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Reading wins, 1 draw and 2 for Bristol City.

Going into the match Reading's last five read L-L-W-L-L and Bristol City's L-D-D-L-W.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 66'Yellow card · Stephen QuinnReading
  • 71'Yellow card · Anton FerdinandReading
  • 71'Yellow card · Anton FerdinandReading
  • 88'Yellow card · Oliver NorwoodReading
  • 90+1'Goal · Nick BlackmanReading · 1-0

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Reading 6, draws 1, Bristol City 2.

Team news

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Reading expected line-up (4-4-2)

Alex Simon McCarthy, Chris Gunter, Sean Morrison, Stephen Kelly, Alex Pearce, Jordan Obita, Jem Karacan, Hal Robson-Kanu, Garath McCleary

Bristol City expected line-up

Tom Heaton, Richard Foster, Lewin Nyatanga, G. Cunningham, Neil Kilkenny, Liam Kelly, Marvin Elliott, Albert Adomah, Steven Davies, Sam Baldock, Matthew Bates