West Ham United 4-2 Reading: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 19 May 2013
Result
West Ham United 4-2 Reading
Premier League · Sunday 19 May 2013, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
West Ham United 4-2 Reading: match report
West Ham United beat Reading 4-2 in the Premier League on Sunday 19 May 2013. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Kevin Nolan opened the scoring in the 23rd minute. West Ham United's goals came from Kevin Nolan (23'), Ricardo Vaz Té (34'), Kevin Nolan (79') and Kevin Nolan (87'). Reading scored through Garath McCleary (53') and Adam Le Fondre (55').
Discipline: West Ham United received 2 yellow cards; Reading received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game West Ham United were 10th on 44 points from 37 and Reading 19th on 30 points from 37. West Ham United went on to finish that season 8th with 47 points, and Reading 19th with 30.
West Ham United lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Reading in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 West Ham United win, 1 draw and 3 for Reading.
Going into the match West Ham United's last five read L-D-D-W-D and Reading's L-W-D-L-D.
Key events
- 23'Goal · Kevin Nolan
- 34'Goal · Ricardo Vaz Té
- 53'Goal · Garath McCleary
- 55'Goal · Adam Le Fondre
- 64'Yellow card · Jobi McAnuff
- 79'Goal · Kevin Nolan
- 83'Yellow card · Kevin Nolan
- 85'Yellow card · J. Collison
- 87'Goal · Kevin Nolan
Head-to-head
Team news
West Ham United line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jussi Jaaskelainen, Guy Demel, James Collins, Winston Reid, Joey O'Brien, Mark Noble, Mohamed Diamé, Joe Cole, Kevin Nolan, Ricardo Vaz Té, Andy Carroll
Reading expected line-up (4-4-2)
Alex Simon McCarthy, Chris Gunter, Sean Morrison, Adrian Mariappa, Stephen Kelly, Danny Guthrie, Jem Karacan, Jobi McAnuff, Garath McCleary, Pavel Pogrebnyak, Hal Robson-Kanu