Everton: Howard, Neville, Yobo, Jagielka, Lescott, Arteta, Carsley, Fernandes, Osman, Cahill, Johnson Subs: Wessels, Hibbert, Van der Meyde, Vaughan, Nuno Valente Reading: Hahnemann, Murty, Sonko, Cisse, Shorey, Oster, Harper, Matejovsky, Hunt, Doyle, Kitson Subs: Federici, Rosenior, De la Cruz, Long, Kebe Live on FSC.
this is a bad weekend to be missing Convey as Reading has a busy day according to the bbc right now http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/7236381.stm
Reading with the 2nd worst away record in the league. Covney's injured I assume? Too bad. This game is one live on showtime sports
Maybe - in honor of baseball spring training getting underway next week - they've gone with a split-squad (ss).
Cahill gets his head to a corner...just over the bar. Marcus would have had no shot. That was the last play of the half. 0-0
that can't help in the battle to stay up 1st half winding down, choppy game. Reading with a lot of the ball and creating opportunities but one is not convinced they can actually score. T Ho plays an interesting clearance off Kitson's foot. Everton almost go ahead at the death, corner headed about 2 inches over the bar. this has a bad feeling for Reading to me. The kind of game you battle and battle and lose on an injury time goal.
rolling ball across the box gets by cahill and johnson who were both poorly marked (or not marked at all). But nothing comes of it
howard with an easy catch off a header, then he gets clattered into, but pops up quickly to distribute.
1-0 Everton! Corner swung in, headed out, and the ball gets floated back in by osman and jagielka heads in. Marcus with little chance. Question of offside...but look on to me
Everton pouring it on now, corner after a couple of flurries in the box with no shots Corner amounts to nothing.
Arteta is having a great game. Reading corner, Cisse gets a head on but goes out harmlessly. all this came after an Everton cross actually hit the top of the crossbar.
Hahnemann makes a diving save off a Vaughan bicycle kick from the top of the box. Hahnemann pushed it over the line for a corner.