Swansea City v Reading Competition - Sky Bet Championship Venue - Liberty Stadium Kick off - 8.00pm Date - 30 December 2020 Following their hard fought victory away at QPR, next up for Steve Cooper’s Swansea squad is a home match against fellow promotion rivals Reading. On Boxing Day, the Swans moved into the Championship's automatic promotion spots as they secured a 2-0 win over Queens Park Rangers. Macauley Bonne and Dominic Ball both spurned opportunities for the Rs in the opening half at The Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium and the home side was made to pay for failing to take those chances when Andre Ayew headed home on the stroke of half time to put the Swans ahead. Jamal Lowe struck a second nine minutes after half time to put Swansea in command, following a great defence splitting pass from Matt Grimes. The Swans’ victory lifted them up to second place in the table as they kept a 12th clean sheet of the campaign to secure their 11th league win. On the same day, Reading moved back into the Championship play-off places after two first-half goals were enough to beat Luton Town at Madejski Stadium. Tom McIntyre's impressive sweeping left-footed volley from Sone Aluko's outswinging corner gave the Royals an early lead. Alfa Semedo made it 2-0 late in the first half with his maiden Reading goal, calmly slotting home after a nice one-two with George Baldock on the edge of the Luton area. Luton ended a four-game run without an away goal in the final minute when substitute Kazenga LuaLua's powerful low long-range effort beat Rafael Cabral, although the Royals goalkeeper could perhaps have done better to keep it out. As a result, Reading moved up to sixth place in the Championship. The Swans have played the Royals on 81 occasions - and the honours are even, 33 wins apiece with 15 draws. In the corresponding fixture last season, in front of a crowd of 16,036, the teams fought out a 1-1 draw Turning to Wednesday evening, I think that the first goal will be crucial: if the Swans take the lead I can see a 2-0 home win, but if Reading go in front, I think that the Swans will have to settle for a point at best in a 1-1 draw.
Thanks Taff. As always that opening goal is crucial plus we have the relaid pitch. So it’s Swans to get the opening goal and run out 2-1 winners and stay 2nd.
Thanks Taff. It’s our new pitch and should be a nice Christmas present for our players so we can win this quite easily assuming we have recovered from Boxing Days exploits..
David Webb will be the man in the middle when Swansea City host Reading in their final game of 2020 on Wednesday night. The County Durham official will take charge of the Swans for the first time this season, having overseen last season’s draws at Hull and Sheffield Wednesday, and the win at Luton. He will be assisted by Craig Taylor and Richard Wild, while Lee Swabey will be the fourth official.
Reading are hot and cold ,it'll be a hard game and If they create as many chances hat QPR did then a nervous tight game 2-1
Well done again Taff. .................. Championship all hard games this year. Difficult to predict, but let's hope for a good result on the new pitch.
I'm watching it they are poor , gutted really capitol city club and all that being beaten by a "small club"
Please be nice to our capital city club....only joking.....it’s all down to the pitch...the referee....the cold weather....or is it the manager and his band of poor players.... We need to win tomorrow all the same
Poor old CCFC lost two one Norwich drew with QPR who should have won at the end. All on for a nice win tomorrow to toast our new pitch....
That's not nice, ...........That's not nice..............That's not nice..................... Never mind, never mind. Never bloody mind. ...... bollocks.
