Watford 2-0 Reading: result and report
Championship · Tuesday 8 November 2022
Result
Watford 2-0 Reading
Championship · Tuesday 8 November 2022, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Watford 2-0 Reading: match report
Watford won against Reading 2-0 in the Championship on Tuesday 8 November 2022. The half-time score was 1-0.
João Pedro opened the scoring in the 15th minute. Watford's goals came from João Pedro (15', penalty) and João Pedro (87'). Reading did not score.
Discipline: Watford received 2 yellow cards; Reading received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Watford were 8th on 29 points from 19 and Reading 13th on 26 points from 19. Watford went on to finish that season 11th with 63 points, and Reading 20th with 50.
Watford lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Reading in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to João Pedro of Watford (9.4), ahead of Ken Sema (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Watford wins, 3 draws and 3 for Reading.
Going into the match Watford's last five read L-W-W-W-L and Reading's L-D-L-W-L.
Key events
- 15'Penalty goal · João Pedro
- 34'Yellow card · Yaser Asprilla
- 38'Yellow card · Ovie Ejaria
- 49'Yellow card · Ken Sema
- 73'Yellow card · Abdul-Rahman Baba
- 78'Yellow card · Mamadou Loum
- 87'Goal · João Pedro
Head-to-head
Team news
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Watford line-up (4-2-3-1)
Daniel Bachmann, Dan Gosling, William Troost-Ekong, Christian Kabasele, Ken Sema, Hamza Dewan Choudhury, Edo Kayembe, Yáser Asprilla, João Pedro, Ismaïla Sarr, Keinan Davis
Reading line-up (3-4-2-1)
Joe Lumley, Andy Yiadom, Amadou Mbengue, Tom Holmes, Abdul Rahman Baba, Sam Hutchinson, Tom Ince, Jeff Hendrick, Tyrese Fornah, Ovie Ejaria, Lucas João