Championship · ENG · Round 1

Queens Park Rangers
2 - 0 Full time
Reading

Loftus Road

Lineups

Queens Park Rangers3-5-2
AS1Smithies
JP24Perch
NO5Onuoha
JL6Lynch
PW22Wszolek
JS11Scowen
ML21Luongo
LF7Freeman
JB3↓87'Bidwell
JM12↓83'Mackie
CW9⚽×2↓81'Washington
VM1Mannone
CG2Gunter
LM6Moore
TI20Ilori
AP25Popa
LK38Kelly
GE8Evans
TB24Blackett
JS10↓82'Swift
PC22↓52'Clement
JD23↓59'Bödvarsson
Reading3-4-2-1

Queens Park Rangers substitutes

40 Idrissa Sylla ↑81'
23 Yeni N'Gbakoto ↑83'
18 Jack Robinson ↑87'
16 Ariel Borysiuk
2 Darnell Furlong
13 Matt Ingram
17 Matt Smith

Coach: Ian Holloway

Reading substitutes

17 Modou Barrow 5.8 ↑52'
50 Omar Richards 5.6 ↑59'
9 Joseph Mendes ↑82'
42 Andy Rinomhota
31 Anssi Jaakkola
55 Sam Smith

Coach: Jaap Stam

Match events

22'Conor Washington assist: Pawel Wszolek 1 - 0âš½
28'Jon Dadi Bödvarsson
Second half
52'↑ Modou Barrow ↓ Pelle Clement⇄
56'Tiago Ilori
57'Joel Lynch
59'↑ Omar Richards ↓ Jon Dadi Bödvarsson⇄
59'Conor Washington (penalty) 2 - 0âš½
81'↑ Idrissa Sylla ↓ Conor Washington⇄
82'↑ Joseph Mendes ↓ John Swift⇄
83'↑ Yeni N'Gbakoto ↓ Jamie Mackie⇄
87'↑ Jack Robinson ↓ Jake Bidwell⇄
90'Modou Barrow

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Match details

CompetitionChampionship
Kick-off (UTC)Saturday, 5 August 2017, 14:00 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

7Queens Park Rangers wins10Draws7Reading wins

24 past meetings on record. Biggest Queens Park Rangers win: Queens Park Rangers 4–0 Reading (2022). Biggest Reading win: Queens Park Rangers 1–3 Reading (2014).

14 Jan 2023Reading 2 - 2 Queens Park RangersChampionship
7 Oct 2022Queens Park Rangers 2 - 1 ReadingChampionship
29 Jan 2022Queens Park Rangers 4 - 0 ReadingChampionship
11 Sep 2021Reading 3 - 3 Queens Park RangersChampionship
20 Mar 2021Reading 1 - 1 Queens Park RangersChampionship
12 Dec 2020Queens Park Rangers 0 - 1 ReadingChampionship
26 Dec 2019Reading 1 - 0 Queens Park RangersChampionship
22 Oct 2019Queens Park Rangers 2 - 2 ReadingChampionship
29 Dec 2018Queens Park Rangers 0 - 0 ReadingChampionship
2 Oct 2018Reading 0 - 1 Queens Park RangersChampionship
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30 Mar 2018Reading 1 - 0 Queens Park RangersChampionship
8 Jul 2017Reading 5 - 2 Queens Park RangersClub Friendlies
8 Jul 2017Reading 2 - 1 Queens Park RangersClub Friendlies
12 Jan 2017Reading 0 - 1 Queens Park RangersChampionship
15 Oct 2016Queens Park Rangers 1 - 1 ReadingChampionship
23 Apr 2016Queens Park Rangers 1 - 1 ReadingChampionship
3 Dec 2015Reading 0 - 1 Queens Park RangersChampionship
16 Feb 2014Queens Park Rangers 1 - 3 ReadingChampionship
9 Nov 2013Reading 1 - 1 Queens Park RangersChampionship
28 Apr 2013Reading 0 - 0 Queens Park RangersPremier League
4 Nov 2012Queens Park Rangers 1 - 1 ReadingPremier League
26 Sep 2012Queens Park Rangers 2 - 3 ReadingLeague Cup
4 Feb 2011Reading 0 - 1 Queens Park RangersChampionship
6 Nov 2010Queens Park Rangers 3 - 1 ReadingChampionship