When | Tuesday 11 September, 7.45pm kick-off |
Who and Where | WEST HAM UNITED (Home, Madejski Stadium, League Division Two) |
Ticket Info |
Pay in advance or
on the day, normal home match prices apply. Upper West Stand:
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Travel, Food and Beer. |
Home match
- See away fans guide for travel,
food and beer guide. |
Team news |
It's not clear just how seriously West Ham will take this game. You'd have thought they'd want to win it to have a chance of actually winning the trophy next Spring - so with that in mind we can expect close to a first team line up from the Hammers. That will almost certainly mean the return of popular ex-Reading goalkeeper Shaka Hislop who should play. Be ready to give him a good reception. Whatever West Ham's line-up it's sure to include some big names. Meanwhile Reading will probably stick to the team that lost at home against Cardiff City at the weekend. Possible changes for the Royals could include the starting partnership of Butler and Cureton - with Butler starting in place of Rougier. Williams had a shakey game on Saturday but should start ahead of Viveash. Reading - from: Whitehead, Murty, Williams, Whitbread, Robinson, Igoe, Harper, Parkinson, A.Smith, Butler, Rougier, Henderson, Cureton, Viveash, Jones, Ashdown. West Ham United- from: Hislop, Winterburn, Song, Dailly, Schemmel,
Sinclair, Carrick, Hutchison, Cole, Moncur, Kanoute, Todorov, Di Canio,
Defoe, Forrest, Soma. |
Form Guide |
Click the link below for Reading's recent form: West Ham are yet to win a match this season - and have only scored one
goal all term. That might sound unimpressive - but then you realise they've
only had one home game and that was against Leeds in which they earnt
a 0-0 draw with a promising performance. Away from home West Ham lost
by a single goal at Liverpool and drew 0-0 with Derby most recently: |
Previous Meetings |
Reading and West Ham may not have met competitively in recent history, but the two sides met on a regular basis in the old Southern League many many years ago. More recently the two sides have played a couple of pre-season friendlies and that's the lot! |
Match Odds |
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