Reading 3-1 Leicester City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 16 April 2011

Result

Reading 3-1 Leicester City

Championship · Saturday 16 April 2011, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Reading 3-1 Leicester City: match report

Reading won against Leicester City 3-1 in the Championship on Saturday 16 April 2011. The half-time score was 2-0.

Jimmy Kébé opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Reading's goals came from Jimmy Kébé (19'), Jobi McAnuff (21') and N. Hunt (67'). Leicester City scored through Andy King (79').

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

Going into the game Reading were 5th on 67 points from 41 and Leicester City 9th on 61 points from 41. Reading went on to finish that season 5th with 79 points, and Leicester City 8th with 68.

Reading lined up in a 4-4-2 and Leicester City in a 4-3-3.

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 19'Goal · Jimmy KébéReading · 1-0
  • 19'Yellow card · Younn ZaharyLeicester City
  • 21'Goal · Jobi McAnuffReading · 2-0
  • 67'Goal · N. HuntReading · 3-0
  • 79'Goal · Andy KingLeicester City · 3-1
  • 90'Yellow card · Jeffrey BrumaLeicester City

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Reading 2, draws 2, Leicester City 1.

Team news

Reading line-up (4-4-2)

Alex Simon McCarthy, Andy Griffin, Matthew Mills, Zurab Khizanishvili, Ian Harte, Jem Karacan, Mikele Leigertwood, Jobi McAnuff, Jimmy Kébé, Shane Long, Mathieu Manset

Leicester City line-up (4-3-3)

Chris Weale, Patrick van Aanholt, Jeffrey Bruma, Kyle Naughton, Matt Oakley, Andy King, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Darius Vassell, Diomansy Kamara, Richard Wellens, Sol Bamba