Cardiff City 2-1 Reading: result and report

League One · Saturday 18 October 2025

Result

Cardiff City 2-1 Reading

League One · Saturday 18 October 2025, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Cardiff City 2-1 Reading: match report

Cardiff City defeated Reading 2-1 in the League One on Saturday 18 October 2025. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Lewis Wing opened the scoring in the 38th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Omari Kellyman (49') and Yousef Salech (65'). Reading scored through Lewis Wing (38').

Discipline: Cardiff City received 1 yellow card; Reading received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 4th on 23 points from 11 and Reading 21st on 11 points from 11. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 2nd with 91 points, and Reading 12th with 63.

Cardiff City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Reading in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Lewis Wing of Reading (8.4), ahead of Omari Kellyman (7.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Cardiff City wins, 4 draws and 4 for Reading.

Going into the match Cardiff City's last five read W-L-W-L-D and Reading's D-D-D-W-L.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 38'Goal · Lewis WingReading · 0-1
  • 49'Goal · Omari KellymanCardiff City · 1-1
  • 65'Goal · Yousef SalechCardiff City · 2-1
  • 76'Yellow card · Nathan TrottCardiff City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Cardiff City 2, draws 4, Reading 4.

Team news

Cardiff City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Nathan Trott, Ronan Kpakio, Gabriel Osho, Calum Chambers, Joel Bagan, Joel Colwill, David Turnbull, Omari Kellyman, Rubin Colwill, Chris Willock, Yousef Salech

Reading line-up (4-3-3)

Jack Stevens, Kelvin Abrefa, Finley Burns, Paudie O'Connor, Jeriel Dorsett, Lewis Wing, Kamari Doyle, Charlie Savage, Matt Ritchie, Jack Marriott, Paddy Lane