Reading 0-1 Brentford: result and report

Championship · Saturday 20 January 2018

Result

Reading 0-1 Brentford

Championship · Saturday 20 January 2018, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Reading · Brentford · Championship predictions

Reading 0-1 Brentford: match report

Reading lost to Brentford 0-1 in the Championship on Saturday 20 January 2018. The half-time score was 0-0.

The only goal came from Lasse Vibe of Brentford in the 74th minute.

Discipline: Reading received 3 yellow cards; Brentford received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Reading were 18th on 29 points from 27 and Brentford 11th on 40 points from 27. Reading went on to finish that season 20th with 44 points, and Brentford 9th with 69.

Reading lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Brentford in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Vito Mannone of Reading (8.1), ahead of Yoann Barbet (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Reading wins, 1 draw and 4 for Brentford.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Yellow card · Joey van den BergReading
  • 45+1'Yellow card · Chris GunterReading
  • 60'Yellow card · O. WatkinsBrentford
  • 74'Goal · Lasse VibeBrentford · 0-1
  • 83'Yellow card · Ryan WoodsBrentford
  • 85'Yellow card · Andreas BjellandBrentford
  • 86'Yellow card · Sergi CanósBrentford
  • 90+5'Yellow card · George EvansReading

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Reading 2, draws 1, Brentford 4.

Team news

Reading line-up (4-2-3-1)

Vito Mannone, Chris Gunter, Liam Moore, Tiago Ilori, Omar Richards, Joey van den Berg, George Evans, Sone Aluko, Modou Barrow, Liam Kelly, J. Böðvarsson

Brentford line-up (4-2-3-1)

Daniel Bentley, Andreas Bjelland, Nico Yennaris, Yoann Barbet, Chris Mepham, Florian Jozefzoon, Ollie Watkins, Islom Ismoilov, Ryan Woods, R. Sawyers, Lasse Vibe