Reading 1-0 Watford: result and report
Championship · Saturday 3 October 2020
Result
Reading 1-0 Watford
Championship · Saturday 3 October 2020, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Reading 1-0 Watford: match report
Reading defeated Watford 1-0 in the Championship on Saturday 3 October 2020. It was 1-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from George Puscas of Reading in the 41st minute.
Discipline: Reading received 3 yellow cards; Watford received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Reading were 3rd on 9 points from 3 and Watford 5th on 7 points from 3. Reading went on to finish that season 7th with 70 points, and Watford 3rd with 91.
Reading lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Watford in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Tom Holmes of Reading (8.1), ahead of G. Pușcaș (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Reading wins, 4 draws and 4 for Watford.
Going into the match Reading's last five read W-W-W and Watford's W-D-W.
Key events
- 39'Yellow card · Josh Laurent
- 40'Yellow card · Ben Wilmot
- 41'Goal · George Puscas
- 62'Yellow card · Omar Richards
- 87'Yellow card · João Pedro
- 87'Yellow card · D. Tetek
- 90+4'Yellow card · Nathaniel Chalobah
Head-to-head
Team news
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- Troy Deeney
- Andy Yiadom
- John Swift
- Andre Gray
- Ovie Ejaria
- Sam Baldock
- Étienne Capoue
- Isaac Success
- Felipe Araruna
- Adam Masina
Reading line-up (4-2-3-1)
Rafael Cabral, Tom Holmes, Michael Morrison, Liam Moore, Omar Richards, Andrew Farai Rinomhota, Josh Laurent, Yakou Méïté, Sone Aluko, Michael Olise, G. Pușcaș
Watford line-up (3-5-2)
Ben Foster, Craig Cathcart, Christian Kabasele, Ben Wilmot, Jeremy Ngakia, James Garner, Nathaniel Chalobah, Tom Dele-Bashiru, Kiko Femenía, Ismaïla Sarr, João Pedro