Reading
1 – 1
Birmingham
Madejski Stadium
28th January 2006 - 15:00
Attendance: 23,762
| Reading | Birmingham | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long 31 | Dunn 67 | ||||||
| Stack | Taylor | ||||||
| Halls | Tebily | ||||||
| Makin | Bruce | ||||||
| Sonko | Melchiot | ||||||
| Hunt | Izzet | 57 | |||||
| Gunnarsson | Jarosik | 57 | |||||
| Oster | Lazaridis | ||||||
| Sidwell | Johnson | ||||||
| Harper | Pennant | ||||||
| Lita | Sutton | ||||||
| Long | 90 | Heskey | 57 | ||||
Substitutes |
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| Hahnemann | Vaesen | ||||||
| Ingimarsson | Oji | ||||||
| Osano | Dunn | 57 | |||||
| Little | Kilkenny | 57 | |||||
| Doyle | 90 | Forssell | 57 | ||||
Game Statistics |
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| 3 | Goal attempts | 9 |
| 2 | On Target | 4 |
| 9 | Corners | 5 |
| 14 | Fouls | 11 |
| 2 | Yellow Cards | 1 |
| 0 | Red Cards | 0 |
| 0 | % | 0 |
The Blues have three points to make up at the bottom of the Premiership before they can think about leaving the danger zone, but that shouldn?t be too far away now because Blues have got players back from injury.
In the last round Steve Bruce?s men just scraped through after needing a replay to get rid of lowly Torquay United. Add that to the win over Portsmouth and the Blues will be looking for the first three game winning run of the season against the Royals.
They have been all the way to the final of the competition twice, losing both times in 1931 and 1936.
It’s almost as if we’ve forgotten what it’s like to be beaten – confidence is such that we feel invincible at the moment.
‘Every time we attack we look like we can score. We just need to keep doing what we’re doing and take it into the West Brom game.’