\n T&A chief sports writer SIMON PARKER was at the Select Car Leasing Stadium yesterday to see the first game since Graham Alexander\u2019s exit. Here are the match stats and his player ratings.\n<\/p>\n
\n MAN OF THE MATCH\n<\/p>\n
\n Aden Baldwin continued his outstanding early-season form with another top-notch display.\n<\/p>\n
\n His diagonal ball to Ibou Touray was instrumental in the build-up to City\u2019s goal and he was strong again defensively, capped with a perfectly-timed challenge to nick the ball off Reading\u2019s speedy winger Randell Williams as he raced into the box.\n<\/p>\n
\n The only blot was a yellow card for a crunching challenge on Lewis Wing.\n<\/p>\n
\n TACTICS\n<\/p>\n
\n Cameron Dawson made his league debut for City in goal with Jon McCracken still away with Scotland. But Ibou Touray was back in time from his international duty for Gambia to start.\n<\/p>\n
\n With Josh Neufville injured, Kayden Jackson switched to right wing-back with Adam Phillips playing as the right 10.\n<\/p>\n
\n Will Swan replaced Stephen Humphrys on the bench \u2013 which also included Colin Doyle, who got re-registered as the back-up keeper.\n<\/p>\n
\n REFEREE: Paul Howard (London)\n<\/p>\n
\n BOOKINGS: Rinomhota, Roberts (Reading); Touray, Baldwin, Pointon (City)\n<\/p>\n
\n ATTENDANCE: 12,737 (with 1,118 from City)\n<\/p>\n
\n SHOTS ON TARGET: Reading 3 City 2\n<\/p>\n
\n SHOTS OFF TARGET: Reading 8 City 12\n<\/p>\n
\n CORNERS: Reading 9 City 5\n<\/p>\n
\n FOULS: Reading 10 City 21\n<\/p>\n
\n POSSESSION %: Reading 56 City 44\n<\/p>\n
\n PLAYER RATINGS\n<\/p>\n
\n READING: Pereira 6, Godwin-Malife 7, O\u2019Connor 7, Ward 7, Roberts 6 (Williams 60min, 6.5), Wing 6.5, Rinomhota 5.5 (Fraser 59min, 6), Lisbie 7.5 (Kyerewaa 84min), Stokes 6, Lane 6, Brown 6 (Reid 67min). Subs (not used): Ahmed, Masterson, Stevens.\n<\/p>\n
\n CITY: Dawson 6, Pennington 7, Baldwin 8, Pratt 7, Jackson 7, Connolly 6.5, Sarcevic 6, Touray 7 (O\u2019Keeffe 90min), Phillips 6 (Lapslie 67min), Pointon 7 (Swan 76min), Beesley 7.5 (Powell 67min). Subs (not used): Morgan, Gillesphey, Doyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T&A chief sports writer SIMON PARKER was at the Select Car Leasing Stadium yesterday to see the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-299474","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\/299474","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=299474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}