FA Cup · ENG · Round 4

Cardiff City
1 - 2 Full time
Reading

Lineups

Cardiff City4-4-2
SM33Moore
F3Fabio
SM36Morrison
BT6↓43'Turner
SM4Malone
KH40↓85'Harris
AG17Gunnarsson
PW7Whittingham
CN11Noone
KJ9Jones
AR29↓71'Revell
AF1Federici
CG2↓35'Gunter
AP5Pearce
MH15Hector
JO11Obita
GM12McCleary
ON6↓89'Norwood
NC14Chalobah
DW23Williams
NB22↓82'Blackman
PP7Pogrebnyak
Reading4-4-2

Cardiff City substitutes

16 Matthew Connolly ↑43'
18 Tom Adeyemi ↑71'
14 Federico Macheda ↑85'
42 Ben Wilson
12 Declan John
21 Joe Ralls
45 Thomas O'Sullivan

Reading substitutes

3 Stephen Kelly ↑35'
9 Hal Robson-Kanu ↑82'
35 Jake Cooper ↑89'
25 Jake Taylor
21 Jem Karacan
31 Mikkel Andersen
10 Simon Cox

Match events

24'Kenwyne Jones 1 - 0⚽
25'Ben Turner
32'Peter Whittingham
35'↑ Stephen Kelly ↓ Chris Gunter⇄
43'↑ Matthew Connolly ↓ Ben Turner⇄
Second half
63'Oliver Norwood 1 - 1⚽
66'Pavel Pogrebnyak
67'Craig Noone
71'↑ Tom Adeyemi ↓ Alexander Revell⇄
82'↑ Hal Robson-Kanu ↓ Nick Blackman⇄
85'↑ Federico Macheda ↓ Kadeem Harris⇄
87'Hal Robson-Kanu 1 - 2⚽
89'↑ Jake Cooper ↓ Oliver Norwood⇄

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Match details

CompetitionFA Cup
Kick-off (UTC)Saturday, 24 January 2015, 15:00 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

3Cardiff City wins3Draws2Reading wins

7 past meetings on record. Biggest Cardiff City win: Cardiff City 3–1 Reading (2012). Biggest Reading win: Cardiff City 0–3 Reading (2011).

21 Nov 2014Cardiff City 2 - 1 ReadingChampionship
2 Jan 2012Cardiff City 3 - 1 ReadingChampionship
19 Nov 2011Reading 1 - 2 Cardiff CityChampionship
17 May 2011Cardiff City 0 - 3 ReadingChampionship Playoff
13 May 2011Reading 0 - 0 Cardiff CityChampionship Playoff
1 Feb 2011Cardiff City 2 - 2 ReadingChampionship
10 Nov 2010Reading 1 - 1 Cardiff CityChampionship