Match Day Thread Reading U21 v Sunderland U21 - Monday 20th May, 2024 - KO 19:00

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Last time out Sunderland beat West Ham on penalties and Reading beat Nottingham Forest 3-1.
Sunderland Under-21s battle Reading Under-21s for a place in the Premier League 2 Play-Off finals on Monday evening.
The game will be played at the Select Car Leasing Stadium for a 7pm kick-off time. The winner will face either Tottenham Hotspur Under-21s or Chelsea Under-21s in the final.

Reading finished the regular Premier League 2 season with ten victories, five draws and five defeats from 20 games. They finished in sixth place in the table, one point and one place above the Lads.

During the Royals Play-Off campaign, they have beaten Middlesbrough 2-0 in the round of 16 stage and seen off Nottingham Forest in the quarter-finals winning 3-1. Jayden Wareham and a brace from John Clarke sealed their place in the last four of the competition. Wareham is their top scorer this season with nine goals from 15 appearances. Noel Hunt is currently in charge of the Under-21s who enjoyed a successful playing career spending five seasons in Berkshire. He made 162 appearances for the club, scoring 39 goals.

Graeme Murty comes up against the side where he spent 11 years of his career, making over 300 appearances in blue and white.




Expected Teams:
Sunderland
Jones or Lavery to replace Chris Rigg.

Reading


Path to the final

Semi-Finals (19-20 May)
Match 13: Tottenham Hotspur Under-21s vs Chelsea Under-21s (Sunday 19 May, 12pm)
Match 14: Reading Under-21s vs Sunderland Under-21s (Monday 20 May, 7pm)

Final (24-27 May)
Spurs v Winner 14

Live Stream
The game will be live on the club YouTube channel

My 2 pence:
As it's just down the M4 for me, I'm going to take advantage of the free parking and free entry offer
Hopefully we emulate the last game I saw there - probably the best Sunderland performance that I've had the pleasure to witness live.
I'm going for a 2-1 away win.

Ha'way the young lads!

 

Hope the young 'uns do it. They certainly never know when they are beaten.

 

Do you never take a break RTB, great effort, fingers crossed for the lads and they’re never say die attitude.HTL.

 

Big game - I thought it deserved a match thread.
I had at least a week off

 

https://x.com/AcademyOfLight/status/1791831354788950025

 

I see Spurs won the other semi final with a 90 + 4th minute winner

 

Do you intend to do a match thread for the Euro's
You know, just to keep your hand in

 

Probably not - Too many games but we shall see

 

I know it wouldn’t be fair on the lads who have been playing but are the likes of Rigg and Jobe eligible to play?

 

Haway the bairns!

 

Rigg is on International duty

 

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Reading slight favourites but I have no doubt we’ll give them a proper game.

 

Really looking forward to this

 

Shame this game wasn’t yesterday, I know a few who would’ve travelled

 

https://x.com/AcademyOfLight/status/1792597216818802908

 

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It’s a tough test tonight. It’s an experienced Reading side compared to ours. Most of their players are 20/21 and a couple have featured for the first team in League One

 

Michael Stickland was nominated for the PL2 player of the season

 

Haway the Bairns