{"id":296885,"date":"2026-09-30T14:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296885\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:16:08","slug":"bradford-city-struggling-for-available-wing-backs-at-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296885\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford City struggling for available wing-backs at Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Speaking to the press at Woodhouse Grove this afternoon, interim manager Mark Trueman revealed bad news on both Tyreik Wright and Josh Neufville.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And with Ibou Touray away on international duty with Gambia, that leaves Corey O\u2019Keeffe as the only natural wing back still available.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The likes of Kayden Jackson and George Lapslie may have to fill in those positions, with Trueman admitting Neufville would be ruled out for Reading after suffering a hamstring injury in City\u2019s last league game against Luton.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a few weeks for Josh.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt\u2019s not a serious injury but it\u2019s one we\u2019ve got to manage, with how explosive he is as a footballer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe\u2019ve got to make sure he\u2019s 100 per cent when he returns.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Wright has suffered a \u201cslight setback\u201d in his recovery, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk\/sport\/sportlatest\/26516083.bradford-city-boss-delivers-injury-update-tyreik-wright\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">having torn his quad ahead of the opening league game against Peterborough<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Trueman said: \u201cTyreik\u2019s got another re-scan on Friday, so we\u2019ll be able to tell you more on Saturday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHe was out on the grass a couple of days ago and had a slight little setback, so that\u2019s why we\u2019ve got him in on Friday.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Fortunately, Aden Baldwin has fully recovered after struggling towards the end of the Luton game, Trueman confirming it was just cramp and that he will be fit to face Reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to the press at Woodhouse Grove this afternoon, interim manager Mark Trueman revealed bad news on both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-296885","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\/296885","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=296885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}