Manchester City 2-1 Reading: result and report

Manchester City 2-1 Reading

Premier League · Saturday 24 November 2007, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Manchester City beat Reading 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 24 November 2007. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Martin Petrov opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Manchester City's goals came from Martin Petrov (11') and Stephen Ireland (90+4'). Reading scored through James Harper (43').

Discipline: Manchester City received no yellow cards; Reading received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Manchester City were 4th on 26 points from 13 and Reading 12th on 13 points from 13. Manchester City went on to finish that season 9th with 55 points, and Reading 18th with 36.

Manchester City 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 0 Manchester City wins, 0 draws and 2 for Reading.

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