{"id":168479,"date":"2026-04-17T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168479\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:06:10","slug":"match-preview-reading-vs-cardiff-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168479\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Preview | Reading vs. Cardiff City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        KNOW YOUR OPPONENT | THE ROYALS<\/p>\n<p>Clinical forward Jack Marriott has been missing through injury since the middle of February, but there is talk of a coming return. The striker has 17 goals in all competitions from 25 matches this term. Marriott&#8217;s absence has meant more starts for 22-year-old academy graduate Kelvin Ehibhatiomhan. The centre forward has nine league goals this season.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Wing has started all 43 of Reading&#8217;s league matches, making a big impact with 11 goals. Welsh international Charlie Savage has also featured in every game for the Royals this term, with three of his 43 appearances coming from the substitutes bench.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s game at Doncaster Rovers saw the return of former City man Andy Rinomhota. The central midfielder has only appeared twice this season after returning to the Royals.<\/p>\n<p>2025\/26 Squad<br \/>GK | Joel Pereira, Jack Stevens, Tom Norcott, Matt Rowley.<br \/>DEF | Kelvin Abrefa, Jeriel Dorsett, Haydon Roberts, Finley Burns, Paudie O&#8217;Connor, Benn Ward, Andy Yiadom, Michael Stickland, Ryan Nyambe, Derrick Williams, Ashqar Ahmed.<br \/>MID | Ben Elliott, Liam Fraser, Charlie Savage, Lewis Wing, Daniel Kyerewaa, Tivonge Rushesha, Andy Rinomhota, Randell Williams, Mamadi Camara, Kamari Doyle, Matt Ritchie.<br \/>FOR | Jack Marriott, Kelvin Ehibhatiomhan, Kadan Young, Mark O&#8217;Mahony, Will Keane, Paddy Lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KNOW YOUR OPPONENT | THE ROYALS Clinical forward Jack Marriott has been missing through injury since the middle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-168479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168479","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=168479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}