{"id":4074,"date":"2025-10-16T13:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4074\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T13:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:28:06","slug":"match-preview-cardiff-city-vs-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4074\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Preview | Cardiff City vs. Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KNOW YOUR OPPONENT | SEASON SO FAR<\/p>\n<p>The Royals head to the Welsh capital in the final relegation spot in League One after 11 fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve won two, drawn five and lost four of their games so far.<\/p>\n<p>Their last league victory came at the expense of City&#8217;s last league opponents, Leyton Orient, on September 20th.<\/p>\n<p>They have completed their EFL Trophy group stage, defeating West Ham United U21s and MK Dons, but suffering defeat to local rivals Swindon Town.<\/p>\n<p>Former Derby County and Wrexham striker Jack Marriott is in fine form for the Royals, having netted five times in six league appearances.<\/p>\n<p>2025\/26 Squad<br \/>GK | Joel Dinis Castro Pereira, Jack Stevens, Tom Norcott, Matt Rowley.<br \/>DEF | Kelvin Abrefa, Jeriel Dorsett, Matty Jacobs, Finley Burns, Paudie O&#8217;Connor, Andy Yiadom, Andre Garcia, Michael Strickland, Derrick Williams, John Ryan, Ashqar Ahmed.<br \/>MID | Ben Elliott, Liam Fraser, Charlie Savage, Lewis Wing, Daniel Kyerewaa, Tivonge Rushesha, Mamadi Caba Camara, Kamari Doyle, Matt Ritchie, Shay Spencer.<br \/>FOR | Jack Marriott, Kelvin Ehibhatiomhan, Mark O&#8217;Mahony, Basil Tuma, Paddy Lane, Jeremiah Okine-Peters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KNOW YOUR OPPONENT | SEASON SO FAR The Royals head to the Welsh capital in the final relegation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-4074","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\/4074","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=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}