\n Grace Craven’s goal in the dying minutes ignited a potential turnaround for The Hoops, only for The Royals to finish with a one-goal lead.\n<\/p>\n
\n Reading, maintaining early dominance, kept Oxford City pinned in their half during the initial 20 minutes of the game.\n<\/p>\n
\n Oxford found their rhythm as the first half progressed, with Hannah Gerrow making a notable save shortly before the half-hour mark to keep the score level.\n<\/p>\n
\n Oxford came close to an early lead in the first half with an effort from Ellie Walecki going just over.\n<\/p>\n
\n The match remained quite balanced through the first half, with limited chances for both teams.\n<\/p>\n
\n The second half saw an invigorated City, who appeared to have significantly picked up the pace of the match.\n<\/p>\n
\n Following a coordinated play, a Harris shot landed on the roof of the net.\n<\/p>\n
\n After 76 minutes, Reading seized the lead, capitalising on a throw-in that was squeezed in at the near post, contrary to the prevailing action on the field.\n<\/p>\n
\n Six minutes later, The Royals doubled their lead.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, Craven managed to pull one back for City just before full-time.\n<\/p>\n
\n Despite pushing for an equaliser, it wasn’t meant to be as Reading managed to secure all three points.\n<\/p>\n
\n Oxford City manager Aliyah Anthony expressed pride in her team’s performance.\n<\/p>\n
\n She said: “Today we showed desire and when you have staff backing you, that’s what can happen.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grace Craven’s goal in the dying minutes ignited a potential turnaround for The Hoops, only for The Royals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-181399","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\/181399","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=181399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}