Reading 4-1 Crawley Town: result and report

League One · Saturday 19 October 2024

Result

Reading 4-1 Crawley Town

League One · Saturday 19 October 2024, 11:30 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Reading 4-1 Crawley Town: match report

Reading won against Crawley Town 4-1 in the League One on Saturday 19 October 2024. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Amadou Mbengue opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Reading's goals came from Amadou Mbengue (20'), Lewis Wing (40'), Charlie Savage (65') and Sam Smith (73'). Crawley Town scored through Harry Forster (30').

Discipline: Reading received 1 yellow card; Crawley Town received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Reading were 17th on 13 points from 9 and Crawley Town 22nd on 7 points from 10. Reading went on to finish that season 7th with 75 points, and Crawley Town 21st with 46.

Reading lined up in a 4-3-3 and Crawley Town in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Lewis Wing of Reading (9.0), ahead of Charlie Savage (8.4).

Going into the match Reading's last five read L-W-W-L-L and Crawley Town's L-L-L-L-L.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 20'Goal · Amadou MbengueReading · 1-0
  • 30'Goal · Harry ForsterCrawley Town · 1-1
  • 36'Yellow card · Max AndersonCrawley Town
  • 40'Goal · Lewis WingReading · 2-1
  • 65'Goal · Charlie SavageReading · 3-1
  • 73'Goal · Sam SmithReading · 4-1
  • 78'Yellow card · Amadou MbengueReading
  • 87'Yellow card · Panutche CamaraCrawley Town

Team news

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Reading line-up (4-3-3)

David Button, Michael Craig, Amadou Mbengue, Tyler Bindon, Andre Garcia, Ben Elliott, Lewis Wing, Charlie Savage, Adrian Akande, Sam Smith, Harvey Knibbs

Crawley Town line-up (4-2-3-1)

Joseph Wollacott, Toby Mullarkey, Charlie Barker, Joy Mukena, Harry Forster, Max Anderson, Bradley Ibrahim, Armando Junior Quitirna, Ronan Darcy, Jeremy Kelly, Will Swan