{"id":124995,"date":"2026-02-27T10:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124995\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:56:07","slug":"reading-v-bradford-city-team-line-ups-referee-match-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124995\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading v Bradford City: Team line-ups, referee, match odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Kick-off: Saturday, February 28 (3pm)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Venue: Select Car Leasing Stadium\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Possible line-ups\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READING\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  GK Joel Pereira, RB Ryan Nyambe, CH Paudie O&#8217;Connor, CH Derrick Williams, LB Benn Ward, CM Lewis Wing, CM Liam Fraser, RW Kamari Doyle, AM Charlie Savage, LW Kadan Young, F Jack Marriott.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Substitutes: Ehibhatiomhan, R Williams, Lane, Burns, Yiadom, Dorsett, Stevens.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Leading scorer: Jack Marriott, 17.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  League position: 7th\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Last four matches: Port Vale (a) D1-1, Bolton (h) D1-1, Wycombe (h) W3-2, Wigan (a) W2-1.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  BRADFORD CITY\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  GK Sam Walker, CH Matt Pennington, CH Aden Baldwin, CH Curtis Tilt, RWB Josh Neufville, CM Max Power, CM Jenson Metcalfe, LWB Tyreik Wright, RW Antoni Sarcevic, LW Bobby Pointon, CF Ethan Wheatley.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Substitutes: Humphrys, Mullin, Evans, Touray, J Wright, Ashby, Hilton.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Leading scorer: Stephen Humphrys, Bobby Pointon, Antoni Sarcevic, eight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  League position: 4th.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Last four matches: Rotherham (h) W1-0, Wimbledon (a) L1-3, Stockport (h) W1-0, Peterborough (h) W2-0.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Referee: Liverpool&#8217;s Ben Speedie last officiated City when they won at Carlisle 13 months ago. The Bantams have a good record when he has the whistle.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Match odds: Reading 29\/20, City 13\/8, Draw 23\/10.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Last time sides met: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk\/sport\/sportbcfc\/sportbcfcmatch\/25696298.bradford-city-keep-pace-top-seventh-home-win\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Antoni Sarcevic and Bobby Pointon scored in a 2-0 win<\/a> at Valley Parade in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kick-off: Saturday, February 28 (3pm) Venue: Select Car Leasing Stadium Possible line-ups READING GK Joel Pereira, RB Ryan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-124995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-reading-city","9":"tag-reading-city-headlines","10":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}