FA Cup · ENG · Round 3

Reading
5 - 2 Full time
Huddersfield Town

Lineups

Reading4-4-2
AA26Al-Habsi
CG2Gunter
AF15Ferdinand
JC35Cooper
AT3Taylor
GM12↓44'McCleary
ON6Norwood
LP17⚽↓79'Piazon
DW23Williams
MV7⚽×3↓90'Vydra
HR9Robson-Kanu
JM13Murphy
TS2⚽Smith
MH5Hudson
JL33Lynch
JD3Davidson
EH16Huws
KD22↓77'Dempsey
JH6Hogg
JP8⚽Paterson
NW21Wells
JL18↓28'Lolley
Huddersfield Town4-4-2

Reading substitutes

20 Ola John ↑44'
19 Alex Fernandez ⚽↑79'
10 Orlando Sa ↑90'
1 Jonathan Bond
34 Niall Keown
31 Simon Cox
21 Stephen Quinn

Huddersfield Town substitutes

4 Dean Whitehead ↓76'↑28'
14 Martin Cranie ↑76'
11 Ishmael Miller ↑77'
19 Duane Holmes
36 Florent Bojaj
15 James Husband
26 Lloyd Allinson

Match events

9'Jamie Paterson 0 - 1⚽
15'Tom Smith 0 - 2⚽
27'Jonathan Hogg
28'↑ Dean Whitehead ↓ Joe Lolley⇄
29'Lucas Piazon 1 - 2⚽
44'↑ Ola John ↓ Garath McCleary⇄
Second half
57'Matej Vydra 2 - 2⚽
61'Matej Vydra 3 - 2⚽
76'↑ Martin Cranie ↓ Dean Whitehead⇄
77'↑ Ishmael Miller ↓ Kyle Dempsey⇄
79'↑ Alex Fernandez ↓ Lucas Piazon⇄
90'↑ Orlando Sa ↓ Matej Vydra⇄
90'Matej Vydra 4 - 2⚽
90'Alex Fernandez 5 - 2⚽

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Match details

CompetitionFA Cup
Kick-off (UTC)Tuesday, 19 January 2016, 20:00 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

3Reading wins3Draws2Huddersfield Town wins

7 past meetings on record. Biggest Reading win: Huddersfield Town 3–0 Reading (2015). Biggest Huddersfield Town win: Huddersfield Town 0–1 Reading (2015).

9 Jan 2016Huddersfield Town 2 - 2 ReadingFA Cup
3 Nov 2015Reading 2 - 2 Huddersfield TownChampionship
24 Feb 2015Huddersfield Town 3 - 0 ReadingChampionship
3 Jan 2015Huddersfield Town 0 - 1 ReadingFA Cup
19 Aug 2014Reading 1 - 2 Huddersfield TownChampionship
29 Mar 2014Reading 1 - 1 Huddersfield TownChampionship
14 Dec 2013Huddersfield Town 0 - 1 ReadingChampionship