National League high-flyers Carlisle launched a sensational late fightback from 2-0 down to send League One Reading tumbling out of the FA Cup in extra time.<\/p>\n
Goals from Lewis Wing and Mark O’Mahony looked to have given Leam Richardson a comfortable win in his first game as Reading manager following Noel Hunt’s departure.<\/p>\n
But second-half substitute Regan Linney struck twice in stoppage-time, including a 98th-minute equaliser.<\/p>\n
Linney then completed his unlikely hat-trick four minutes into the first period of extra time to cap a stunning turnaround for Mark Hughes’ men.<\/p>\n
Reading, who sit 19th in League One, looked to be cruising against the fifth-tier side, as Wing tucked home in the 32nd minute and substitute O’Mahony doubled the lead in the 68th minute with a close-range finish.<\/p>\n
Hughes responded to Reading’s second by immediately introducing top scorer Linney who turned the game on the head with goals in the third and eighth minute of stoppage-time.<\/p>\n
Both were from cleanly-struck shots, though home keeper Jack Stevens should have done better to save his second effort.<\/p>\n
Linney then made it 14 goals for the season in extra time from another well-drilled effort after a quick Carlisle break.<\/p>\n
Reading produced little in response as Richardson, booked during normal time for protesting too strongly to referee Ruebyn Ricardo, was unable to spark a revival at his new home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National League high-flyers Carlisle launched a sensational late fightback from 2-0 down to send League One Reading tumbling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-22068","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\/22068","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=22068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}