Everton 2-1 Reading: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 2 March 2013

Result

Everton 2-1 Reading

Premier League · Saturday 2 March 2013, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Everton 2-1 Reading: match report

Everton won against Reading 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 2 March 2013. The half-time score was 1-0.

Marouane Fellaini opened the scoring in the 42nd minute. Everton's goals came from Marouane Fellaini (42'), Steven Pienaar (59') and Kevin Mirallas (66'). Reading scored through Hal Robson-Kanu (84').

Discipline: Everton received 1 yellow card; Reading received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Everton were 6th on 42 points from 27 and Reading 18th on 25 points from 27. Everton went on to finish that season 7th with 63 points, and Reading 19th with 30.

Everton lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Reading in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Everton wins, 1 draw and 2 for Reading.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 5'Yellow card · Adam Le FondreReading
  • 42'Goal · Marouane FellainiEverton · 1-0
  • 44'Yellow card · Séamus ColemanEverton
  • 59'Goal · Steven PienaarEverton · 2-0
  • 66'Goal · Kevin MirallasEverton · 3-0
  • 84'Goal · Hal Robson-KanuReading · 3-1

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Everton 2, draws 1, Reading 2.

Team news

Everton line-up (4-4-1-1)

Séamus Coleman, Phil Jagielka, Sylvain Distin, Leighton Baines, Kevin Mirallas, Darron Gibson, Leon Osman, Steven Pienaar, Nikica Jelavić, Ján Mucha, Marouane Fellaini

Reading line-up (4-4-2)

Alex Pearce, Mikele Leigertwood, Jobi McAnuff, Adam Le Fondre, Stuart Taylor, Adrian Mariappa, Ian Harte, Stephen Kelly, Jimmy Kébé, Hope Akpan, Noel Hunt