Reading 1-1 Stoke Highlights

Adam Le Fondre scored a late penalty as Reading marked their Premier League return after a four-season absence with a battling draw against Stoke.

Watch English Premier League match, Reading Vs Stoke highlights here.

Venue: Madejski Stadium
Date: Saturday, 18 August
Kick off: 15:00

Head-to-head

Reading and Stoke have never met before in the Premier League, or in the English top flight at all.

Overall, they have met on 46 occasions – Reading have the edge, with 17 wins to Stoke’s 16 victories.

The last time Stoke won at Reading was a 1-0 win in Division Two on Boxing Day in 1992.

Reading

Championship winners Reading lost 11 league matches last season, compared to just nine the previous season (when they finished fifth and failed to get promoted through the play-offs).

But they won 27 matches out of 46 games last season, compared to 20 the term previous.

Reading had the best defence of any Championship team last season, keeping 20 clean sheets.

Yet they scored the fewest goals of any team in the top five, notching just 69.

Stoke

The Potters had the lowest ranked attack of any Premier League team last season, scoring just 36 goals in 38 games.

Tony Pulis’ men won just one of the final 10 Premier League matches last season.

They opened their 2011-12 Premier League campaign unbeaten in four games, winning two of them.
The most common scoreline their season just gone was a 1-1 draw.