Watford 2-0 Reading: result and report
Championship · Friday 9 April 2021
Result
Watford 2-0 Reading
Championship · Friday 9 April 2021, 18:45 UTC · half-time 2-0
Watford 2-0 Reading: match report
Watford beat Reading 2-0 in the Championship on Friday 9 April 2021. The half-time score was 2-0.
Ismaïla Sarr opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Watford's goals came from Ismaïla Sarr (12') and Ismaïla Sarr (14'). Reading did not score.
Discipline: Watford received 3 yellow cards; Reading received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Watford were 2nd on 79 points from 40 and Reading 6th on 66 points from 40. Watford went on to finish that season 3rd with 91 points, and Reading 7th with 70.
Watford lined up in a 4-3-3 and Reading in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Ismaïla Sarr of Watford (9.0), ahead of Daniel Bachmann (8.2).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Watford wins, 3 draws and 3 for Reading.
Going into the match Watford's last five read D-W-W-W-W and Reading's W-D-D-L-D.
Key events
- 12'Goal · Ismaïla Sarr
- 14'Goal · Ismaïla Sarr
- 17'Yellow card · Philip Zinckernagel
- 56'Yellow card · A. Rinomhota
- 75'Yellow card · W. Hughes
- 90+3'Yellow card · Isaac Success
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
Watford line-up (4-3-3)
Daniel Bachmann, Kiko Femenía, William Troost-Ekong, Francisco Sierralta, Adam Masina, Nathaniel Chalobah, Will Hughes, Philip Zinckernagel, Ismaïla Sarr, João Pedro, Ken Sema
Reading line-up (4-2-3-1)
Rafael Cabral, Andy Yiadom, Tom Holmes, Liam Moore, Lewis Gibson, Andrew Farai Rinomhota, Josh Laurent, Yakou Méïté, Michael Olise, Ovie Ejaria, G. Pușcaș