Blackpool vs Reading

23 September 2023 · League One · 2023/24 · Referee T Reeves

Full time 4 – 1

Half-time: 3–0

Jordan Rhodes 20’ (pen), 31’, 51’
Kylian Kouassi 27’

James Husband 78’ (og)

Match summary

Blackpool won comfortably, 4-1 at home to Reading. Blackpool led 3-0 at half-time.

In the first half, Jordan Rhodes put Blackpool ahead from the penalty spot in the 20th minute, Kylian Kouassi made it 2-0 with a header in the 27th minute, and Rhodes made it 3-0 in the 31st minute. In the second half, Rhodes made it 4-0 in the 51st minute and Husband's own goal pulled one back to make it 4-1 in the 78th minute.

Shots finished 17-5 to Blackpool, with 6 on target for Blackpool and 4 for Reading.

Match stats

17 Shots 5

6 Shots on Target 4

10 Corners 3

0 Yellow Cards 1

0 Red Cards 0

Key events

Blackpool Reading

Kick-off

Jordan Rhodes
Penalty

1-0

20’

Kylian Kouassi

2-0

27’

Jordan Rhodes

3-0

31’

Half-time3-0

Jordan Rhodes

4-0

51’

78’

James Husband
Own goal

4-1

Full-time4-1

Bookings

Card times are not on file for this game, so they are listed without a minute.

Reading

Sam Hutchinson

Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Reading attacking Blackpool attacking

Goal On target Off target or blocked

Hover or tap a shot for the player and minute.

Player stats

Players16 players


Daniel Grimshaw	90′	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Matthew Pennington	90′	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Oliver Casey	90′	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
James Husband	90′	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
CJ Hamilton	90′	–	–	1	–	–	–	–
Matthew Virtue-Thick Taken off	65′	–	–	1	–	–	–	–
Ollie Norburn	90′	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Kenny Dougall Taken off	46′	–	–	1	–	–	–	–
Owen Dale Taken off	70′	–	–	1	–	–	–	–
Kylian Kouassi Taken off	65′	1	–	5	–	–	–	–
Jordan Rhodes Taken off	89′	3	–	6	–	–	–	–
Jensen Weir Came on as a substitute	44′	–	–	2	–	–	–	–
Sonny Carey Came on as a substitute	25′	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Shayne Lavery Came on as a substitute	25′	–	–	1	–	–	–	–
Callum Connolly Came on as a substitute	20′	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Karamoko Dembélé Came on as a substitute	1′	–	–	–	–	–	–	–


David Button	90′	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Andy Yiadom Taken off	56′	–	–	1	–	–	–	–
Tyler Bindon	90′	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Nelson Abbey	90′	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Clinton Mola Taken off	46′	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Femi Azeez Taken off	46′	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Sam Hutchinson	90′	–	–	–	–	–	–
Charlie Savage	90′	–	–	1	–	–	–	–
Ben Elliott Taken off	46′	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Kelvin Ehibhatiomhan	90′	–	–	1	–	–	–	–
Dominic Ballard Taken off	82′	–	–	2	–	–	–	–
Amadou Salif Mbengue Came on as a substitute	44′	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Tom McIntyre Came on as a substitute	44′	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Lewis Wing Came on as a substitute	44′	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Paul Mukairu Came on as a substitute	34′	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Caylan Vickers Came on as a substitute	8′	–	–	–	–	–	–	–

Came on Taken off Sent off Red is the most in that position for the team

Every player who took the pitch, starters first and then substitutes. A dash means none. xG and xA are expected goals and assists.

Before kick-off

Blackpool win 47% Avg odds 2.01

Draw 27% Avg odds 3.45

Reading win 26% Avg odds 3.61

Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.

Form going into the game

Blackpool D D L W L

Reading W W L L W

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Reading 3-1 Blackpool, 25 Feb 23 Next meeting: Reading 3-2 Blackpool, 27 Apr 24 All Blackpool vs Reading meetings

Shots, expected goals, timeline, lineups, team and player statistics from Bzzoiro Sports Data (sports.bzzoiro.com). Results and odds from football-data.co.uk. Referee data before 2025/26 from the Transfermarkt datasets project.