Well, that was annoying. Reading seem to have this thing where, once we go one goal up, we sit back and do nothing.<\/p>\n
That second half against Port Vale was one of the worst performances I have seen from Reading since the game against Peterborough United earlier in the season. The hosts deserved a goal, but in the game itself, neither team deserved anything. It was a poor performance from both sides and a draw was probably the fair result.<\/p>\n
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Bradford City\u2019s last result was a 1-0 win against Burton Albion. That seems to be a difficult thing at the minute, with the Brewers getting good results against the top-six sides this season. Bradford are flying high and it is looking very likely they are going to get the chance to fight for back-to-back promotions.<\/p>\n
The head-to-head between the two is in the visitors\u2019 favour, with 19 Reading wins, 19 draws and 23 Bradford victories. The last result went in Bradford\u2019s favour with a 2-0 win at the University of Bradford Stadium.<\/p>\n
In this preview I will mention more players who have played for both and I will give my predictions.<\/p>\n
What?\u00a0League One matchday 34<\/p>\n
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Season?\u00a02025\/26<\/p>\n
Who?\u00a0Port Vale<\/p>\n
Where?\u00a0Select Car Leasing Stadium<\/p>\n
When?\u00a0Saturday February 28<\/p>\n
Time?\u00a015:00<\/p>\n
Opposition manager?\u00a0Graham Alexander<\/p>\n
(More) players who have played for both<\/p>\n
As you guys can tell, I like this segment, even if Reading themselves have copied me this year \ud83d\ude0a.<\/p>\n
Here are three more players who have played for both Reading and Bradford:<\/p>\n
Ryan East played one first-team game for Reading in 2018\/19, managing neither a goal nor an assist.<\/p>\n
He later signed for Bradford, making 26 appearances, managing two assists.<\/p>\n
Goalkeeper Phil Whitehead played 94 games for the Royals between 1999 and 2003. He previously played six games for Bradford, all the way back in 1992.<\/p>\n
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Finally, current Bradford player Sam Walker. He made 14 appearances for Reading between 2018 and 2020.<\/p>\n
He signed for Bradford in 2023 and has made 110 appearances, not managing an assist. He will be the starting goalkeeper for the visitors on Saturday.<\/p>\n
My lineup\u00a0<\/p>\n
Joel Pereira will start in goal.<\/p>\n
Paudie O\u2019Connor, Derrick Williams and Benn Ward will make up the back three.<\/p>\n
Ryan Nyambe, Lewis Wing, Liam Fraser, Kamari Doyle and Kadan Young will be the midfield.<\/p>\n
Jack Marriott and Will Keane will be the front line.<\/p>\n
Score prediction: 1-0 Reading!\u00a0<\/p>\n
Good luck to those who are going to the game!<\/p>\n
Come on you Royals!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, that was annoying. Reading seem to have this thing where, once we go one goal up, we…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[32825,68980,32828,68982,61317,68981,61310,8448,61318,68977,68979,736,128,130,129,68983,61314,68978,68984],"class_list":{"0":"post-151526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-bradford-city","9":"tag-burton-albion","10":"tag-graham-alexander","11":"tag-jack-marriott","12":"tag-joel-pereira","13":"tag-kadan-young","14":"tag-kamari-doyle","15":"tag-lewis-wing","16":"tag-liam-fraser","17":"tag-peterborough-united","18":"tag-port-vale","19":"tag-reading","20":"tag-reading-city","21":"tag-reading-city-headlines","22":"tag-reading-city-news","23":"tag-ryan-east","24":"tag-ryan-nyambe","25":"tag-university-of-bradford","26":"tag-will-keane"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151526","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=151526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}