\n T&A chief sports writer SIMON PARKER was in Berkshire yesterday and provides the match stats and his player ratings from the shock loss.\n<\/p>\n
\n MAN OF THE MATCH\n<\/p>\n
\n Captain Max Power was a confident presence in the middle of the park and was getting closer to a first City goal with a couple of long-range attempts. He looked distraught with the outcome.\n<\/p>\n
\n TACTICS\n<\/p>\n
\n City made the one enforced change from the side that started the Rotherham home win.\n<\/p>\n
\n Kayden Jackson\u2019s knee injury meant a start for Ethan Wheatley, who had replaced him against the Millers before being subbed himself late on. Harrison Ashby was added to the bench.\n<\/p>\n
\n REFEREE: Ben Speedie (Liverpool)\n<\/p>\n
\n BOOKINGS: Derrick Williams, Patton, Ehibhatiomhan (Reading)\n<\/p>\n
\n ATTENDANCE: 13,106 (with1,590 from City)\n<\/p>\n
\n SHOTS ON TARGET: Reading 2 City 2\n<\/p>\n
\n SHOTS OFF TARGET: Reading 7 City 10\n<\/p>\n
\n CORNERS: Reading 5 City 6\n<\/p>\n
\n FOULS: Reading 10 City 11\n<\/p>\n
\n POSSESSION %: Reading 51 City 49\n<\/p>\n
\n PLAYER RATINGS\n<\/p>\n
\n READING: Pereira 5.5, Nyambe 6 (Yiadom 46min, 6), O’Connor 7.5, D Williams 7 (Patton 78min), Ward 6, Wing 6.5, Fraser 5 (Ritchie 78min), Doyle 5 (Burns 78min), Savage 6, R Williams 6 (Lane 86min), Ehibhatiomhan 6. Subs (not used): Dorsett, Stevens.\n<\/p>\n
\n CITY: Walker 5.5, Pennington 6.5, Baldwin 7 (Touray 65min, 5.5), Tilt 7, Neufville 6, Power 7.5, Metcalfe 6.5, T Wright 6, Sarcevic 6.5, Pointon 6 (J Wright 89min), Wheatley 6 (Humphrys 65min, 6). Subs (not used): Mullin, Evans, Ashby, Hilton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T&A chief sports writer SIMON PARKER was in Berkshire yesterday and provides the match stats and his player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-126403","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\/126403","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=126403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}