Jack Marriott’s ninth goal of the season helped Reading secure a comfortable 2-0 Sky Bet League One victory over Burton at the SCL Stadium.<\/p>\n
Marriott’s glancing header and a close-range volley from Daniel Kyerewaa gave the Royals a 2-0 half-time lead and it proved enough to extend their unbeaten run to four matches.<\/p>\n
After an even opening, the hosts broke the deadlock in the 18th minute.<\/p>\n
Andy Ritchie’s inviting cross from the right was guided home by Marriott with the faintest of headed touches.<\/p>\n
Marriott could have added a second only for Albion goalkeeper Brad Collins to make a fine save from his 20-yard drive.<\/p>\n
Collins was left helpless, though, when Kamari Doyle cut in to the byline in the 37th minute.<\/p>\n
Doyle’s deflected cross fell nicely for Kyerewaa, who jabbed home for his second goal in consecutive games.<\/p>\n
A long-range curler from Jake Beesley thundered against a post, with home keeper Joel Pereira stranded, as Burton responded before the break.<\/p>\n
But the visitors offered little going forward in a scrappy second period while Reading were also similarly ineffective in attack.<\/p>\n
Collins did well to deny Marriott again and home substitute Kelvin Ehibhatiomhan shot wide as mid-table Reading sealed a profitable festive haul of seven points from three matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Marriott’s ninth goal of the season helped Reading secure a comfortable 2-0 Sky Bet League One victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-347796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}