Reading 1-1 Birmingham City: result and report
Championship · Friday 7 April 2023
Result
Reading 1-1 Birmingham City
Championship · Friday 7 April 2023, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Reading 1-1 Birmingham City: match report
Reading drew with Birmingham City 1-1 in the Championship on Friday 7 April 2023. The half-time score was 1-1.
Andy Carroll opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Reading's goal came from Andy Carroll (7'). Birmingham City scored through Lukas Jutkiewicz (29').
Discipline: Reading received 1 yellow card; Birmingham City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Reading were 18th on 46 points from 39 and Birmingham City 16th on 48 points from 39. Reading went on to finish that season 20th with 50 points, and Birmingham City 17th with 53.
Reading lined up in a 3-5-2 and Birmingham City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Andy Carroll of Reading (7.8), level with Lukas Jutkiewicz (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Reading wins, 1 draw and 6 for Birmingham City.
Going into the match Reading's last five read D-D-L-L-L and Birmingham City's W-W-L-W-D.
Key events
- 7'Goal · Andy Carroll
- 29'Goal · Lukas Jutkiewicz
- 58'Yellow card · Tyrese Fornah
- 72'Yellow card · Krystian Bielik
Head-to-head
Team news
Reading line-up (3-5-2)
Joe Lumley, Amadou Mbengue, Tom Holmes, Naby Sarr, Yakou Méïté, Cesare Casadei, Jeff Hendrick, Tyrese Fornah, Andy Yiadom, Andy Carroll, Lucas João
Birmingham City line-up (4-2-3-1)
John Ruddy, Maxime Colin, M. Roberts, Kevin Long, Auston Trusty, Krystian Bielik, Alfie Chang, Tahith Chong, George Hall, Reda Khadra, Lukas Jutkiewicz