{"id":60674,"date":"2025-12-14T12:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/60674\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T12:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:14:07","slug":"bradford-city-2-0-reading-bantams-too-strong-for-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/60674\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford City 2-0 Reading: Bantams too strong for Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Simon Parker <\/p>\n<p>BRADFORD CITY 2<br \/>Sarcevic 56, Pointon 84<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>READING 0<br \/>Bradford City clinched a third straight win as they beat Reading at Valley Parade to stay second.<br \/>Antoni Sarcevic and Bobby Pointon both scored their seventh goals of the season in the second half to seal the victory for the hosts.<br \/>Bantams boss Graham Alexander felt his team looked very composed throughout.<br \/>He said: \u201cIt was a really strong performance. The first half was very tight and Sam Walker made a couple of good saves.<br \/>Composure<br \/>\u201cWe just had to keep our discipline in the second half and not get frustrated if there &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Simon Parker BRADFORD CITY 2Sarcevic 56, Pointon 84\u00a0 READING 0Bradford City clinched a third straight win as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[32824,13437,32825,32826,303,32827,32828,32829,6357,736,128,130,129,18272,32830,32831],"class_list":{"0":"post-60674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-bantams","9":"tag-bradford","10":"tag-bradford-city","11":"tag-efl","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-football-league","14":"tag-graham-alexander","15":"tag-league-one","16":"tag-premium","17":"tag-reading","18":"tag-reading-city","19":"tag-reading-city-headlines","20":"tag-reading-city-news","21":"tag-royals","22":"tag-sheffield-united","23":"tag-west-brom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60674","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=60674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}