Swansea City 2-3 Reading: result and report

Championship · Saturday 27 November 2021

Result

Swansea City 2-3 Reading

Championship · Saturday 27 November 2021, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-2

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Swansea City 2-3 Reading: match report

Swansea City lost to Reading 2-3 in the Championship on Saturday 27 November 2021. The half-time score was 1-2.

Jamie Paterson opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Swansea City's goals came from Jamie Paterson (3') and Ryan Manning (49'). Reading scored through T. Dele-Bashiru (4'), Andy Carroll (30') and Danny Drinkwater (50').

Discipline: Swansea City received 1 yellow card; Reading received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Swansea City were 9th on 27 points from 19 and Reading 18th on 23 points from 19. Swansea City went on to finish that season 15th with 61 points, and Reading 22nd with 47.

Swansea City lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Reading in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Danny Drinkwater of Reading (8.3), ahead of Luke Southwood (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Swansea City wins, 5 draws and 0 for Reading.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Jamie PatersonSwansea City · 1-0
  • 4'Goal · T. Dele-BashiruReading · 1-1
  • 30'Goal · Andy CarrollReading · 1-2
  • 49'Goal · Ryan ManningSwansea City · 2-2
  • 50'Goal · Danny DrinkwaterReading · 2-3
  • 74'Yellow card · Danny DrinkwaterReading
  • 83'Yellow card · Ethan LairdSwansea City
  • 86'Yellow card · John SwiftReading
  • 89'Yellow card · George PuscasReading

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Swansea City 5, draws 5, Reading 0.

Team news

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Swansea City line-up (3-4-2-1)

Ben Hamer, Ryan Bennett, Kyle Naughton, Rhys Williams, Ethan Laird, Matt Grimes, Olivier Ntcham, Ryan Manning, Korey Smith, Sander Krabbendam, Joël Piroe

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

Luke Southwood, Andy Yiadom, Tom Holmes, Scott Dann, Abdul Rahman Baba, Josh Laurent, Alen Halilovic, Danny Drinkwater, John Swift, Tom Dele-Bashiru, Andy Carroll