Cardiff City 0-1 Reading: result and report
Championship · Saturday 2 October 2021
Result
Cardiff City 0-1 Reading
Championship · Saturday 2 October 2021, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Cardiff City 0-1 Reading: match report
Cardiff City were beaten by Reading 0-1 in the Championship on Saturday 2 October 2021. It was 0-1 at half-time.
The only goal came from Junior Hoilett of Reading in the 38th minute.
Discipline: Cardiff City received 4 yellow cards; Reading received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Cardiff City were 19th on 11 points from 10 and Reading 12th on 13 points from 10. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 19th with 53 points, and Reading 22nd with 47.
Cardiff City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Reading in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Luke Southwood of Reading (8.7), ahead of Ryan Giles (8.2).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Cardiff City win, 5 draws and 4 for Reading.
Going into the match Cardiff City's last five read L-L-L-L-W and Reading's L-W-W-W-D.
Key events
- 32'Yellow card · Marlon Pack
- 37'Yellow card · J. Ralls
- 38'Goal · Junior Hoilett
- 84'Yellow card · James Collins
- 90+4'Yellow card · Mark McGuinness
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
- Andrew Farai Rinomhota
- Alen Halilovic
- Dejan Tetek
- Michael Morrison
- Yakou Méïté
- Femi Azeez
- Tom Holmes
- Marc McNulty
- Lucas João
- Felipe Araruna
- Tom McIntyre
Cardiff City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Alex Smithies, Mark McGuinness, Aden Flint, Curtis Nelson, Ciaron Brown, Marlon Pack, Joe Ralls, Ryan Giles, Sam Bowen, Leandro Bacuna, Kieffer Moore
Reading line-up (4-2-3-1)
Luke Southwood, Andy Yiadom, Liam Moore, Josh Laurent, Abdul Rahman Baba, Tom Dele-Bashiru, Danny Drinkwater, Junior Hoilett, John Swift, Ovie Ejaria, G. Pușcaș