{"id":540465,"date":"2026-03-14T18:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/540465\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T18:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:42:09","slug":"reading-twice-squander-lead-to-draw-with-plymouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/540465\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading twice squander lead to draw with Plymouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reading twice squandered the lead and were forced to settle for a 2-2 draw in their clash with fellow League One play-off hopefuls Plymouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The home side led 2-1 at the break through goals from Randell Williams and Paudie O&#8217;Connor \u2013 either side of Alex Mitchell&#8217;s equaliser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The visitors deservedly levelled in the 67th minute through Caleb Watts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reading want ahead in the third minute when Williams&#8217; intended cross from the right drifted in over keeper Luca Ashby-Hammond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The visitors levelled in six minutes when defender Mitchell volleyed home from a Ronan Curtis corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Royals regained their lead in the 18th minute when centre-back O&#8217;Connor bundled the ball in at the back post from a Lewis Wing corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Argyle emerged stronger after the break to once again level when Watts notched his seventh goal of the season from close range after the home side failed to clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reading could have snatched it near the end but Ashby-Hammond saved well from Kamari Doyle and Lane drove the rebound wide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Match report supplied by PA Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading twice squandered the lead and were forced to settle for a 2-2 draw in their clash with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-540465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}