{"id":98308,"date":"2026-01-27T22:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/98308\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T22:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:54:11","slug":"reading-2-2-exeter-city-league-one-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/98308\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading 2-2 Exeter City: League One report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A stoppage-time equaliser from Luca Woodhouse gave Exeter a draw in their League One clash at Reading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Grecians took a 14th-minute lead through skipper Pierce Sweeney but Royals loanee Will Keane levelled on the brink of half-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Centre back Paudie O&#8217;Connor gave the hosts a 2-1 advantage in the 75th minute only for Woodhouse to level in the third minute of time added on at the end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a cagey and uneventful opening, Exeter went in front from a deep Ethan Brierley corner. Reece Cole drove it back into the danger area and Sweeney, a former Royal, diverted it home for only his second goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reading&#8217;s patient approach paid off in first-half stoppage time when Haydon Roberts found space on the left and his clever cross allowed Keane, on loan from Preston, to firmly volley past Grecians keeper Joe Whitworth via the inside of a post for his first Royals goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the rain lashed down early in the second period, Brierley blazed well over from a speculative 30-yard attempt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reading gradually gained the upper hand, with Lewis Wing&#8217;s hanging free-kick expertly volleyed in by the unmarked O&#8217;Connor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Exeter snatched a point in the 93rd minute when Woodhouse thumped in after a goalmouth scramble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Report supplied by PA Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stoppage-time equaliser from Luca Woodhouse gave Exeter a draw in their League One clash at Reading. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-98308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-reading-city","9":"tag-reading-city-headlines","10":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98308","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=98308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}