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Reading 1-2 Brighton & Hove - April 04, 2003 / First Division 2002/2003

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First Division 2002/2003 - Round 41

Madejski Stadium - Reading - England

April 04, 2003

16 133

Reading

1 - 2

Brighton & Hove

Jamie Cureton

84'

17'

Paul Brooker

77'

Paul Kitson

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17' - Goal Paul Brooker

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59' - Substitution Ricky Newmanis substituted by Kevin Watson59

72' - Substitution Andy Hughesis substituted by Jamie Cureton72

72' - Substitution Gary Hartis substituted by Nathan Jones photo Paul Kitson

72' - Substitution Graham Barrettis substituted by Paul Kitson

77' - Goal Paul Kitson

79' - Substitution Luke Chadwickis substituted by Nathan Tyson79

79' - Substitution Simon Rodgeris substituted by Charlie Oatway

84' - Goal Jamie Cureton84

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Reading

1 - 2

Brighton & Hove

Reading Brighton & Hove

Team line-ups

Reading

Hahnemann

Marcus Hahnemann

United States

B.date15/06/1972

Age30 years

H1m91

positionGoalkeeper

Newman59

Ricky Newman

England

B.date05/08/1970

Age32 years

H1m78

positionRight central defender

Williams

Ady Williams

Wales

B.date16/08/1971

Age31 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

Brown

Steve Brown

England

B.date13/05/1972

Age30 years

positionDefender

Murty

Graeme Murty

Scotland

B.date13/11/1974

Age28 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

Shorey

Nicky Shorey

England

B.date19/02/1981

Age22 years

H1m75

positionLeft full-back

Hughes72

Andy Hughes

England

B.date02/01/1978

Age25 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

Chadwick79

Luke Chadwick

England

B.date18/11/1980

Age22 years

H1m80

positionRight Midfielder

Harper

James Harper

England

B.date09/11/1980

Age22 years

H1m77

positionCentre Midfield

Little

Glen Little

England

B.date15/10/1975

Age27 years

H1m91

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Forster

Nicky Forster

England

B.date08/09/1973

Age29 years

H1m73

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Marcus Hahnemann		30	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ricky Newman	59	32	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ady Williams		31	54	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Steve Brown		30	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Graeme Murty		28	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nicky Shorey		22	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Andy Hughes	72	25	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Luke Chadwick	79	22	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	James Harper		22	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Glen Little		27	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Nicky Forster		29	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.1 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Brighton & Hove

Beasant

Dave Beasant

England

B.date20/03/1959

Age44 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

Ingimarsson

Ívar Ingimarsson

Iceland

B.date20/08/1977

Age25 years

H1m82

positionCentral defender

Cullip

Danny Cullip

England

B.date17/09/1976

Age26 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Watson

Paul Watson

England

B.date04/01/1975

Age28 years

H1m76

positionLeft full-back

Mayo

Kerry Mayo

England

B.date21/09/1977

Age25 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Hart72

Gary Hart

England

B.date21/09/1976

Age26 years

H1m75

positionRight Midfielder

Rodger79

Simon Rodger

England

B.date03/10/1971

Age31 years

H1m75

positionMidfield

Barrett72

Graham Barrett

Republic of Ireland

B.date06/10/1981

Age21 years

H1m77

positionCentre Midfield

Carpenter

Richard Carpenter

England

B.date30/09/1972

Age30 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Brooker17

Paul Brooker

England

B.date25/11/1976

Age26 years

H1m73

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Zamora

Bobby Zamora

England

B.date16/01/1981

Age22 years

H1m84

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Dave Beasant		44	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ívar Ingimarsson		25	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Danny Cullip		26	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Paul Watson		28	51	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kerry Mayo		25	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gary Hart	72	26	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Simon Rodger	79	31	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Graham Barrett	72	21	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Richard Carpenter		30	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul Brooker	17	26	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Bobby Zamora		22	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.6 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Kevin Watson	59	29	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Nathan Tyson	79	20	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Jamie Cureton	8472	27	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Nathan Jones	72	29	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Charlie Oatway	79	29	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Paul Kitson	7772	32	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Luke Chadwick

John Salako

OUT

Ady Williams

Nathan Tyson

OUT

Glen Little

Adrian Viveash

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Bobby Zamora

Dean Blackwell

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Alan Pardew

191

Success rate in this team:

47 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

47 %

Pardew vs Brighton & Hove

1 victory

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on April 04, 2003

Pardew vs Coppell

1 victory

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on April 04, 2003

Manager

Age

Match num

Steve Coppell

Success rate in this team:

30 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

39 %

Coppell vs Reading

4 victories

1 draw

6 losses

Latest figure on April 04, 2003

Coppell vs Pardew

2 victories

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on April 04, 2003

Referee

Mark Cowburn

1 victory	0 draw	2 losses	Reading3 matches	General total	Brighton & Hove2 matches	1 victory	0 draw	1 loss
0 victory	0 draw	2 losses	Reading2 matches	Season total	Brighton & Hove1 match	1 victory	0 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on January 31, 2004					Latest figure on April 02, 2005

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Key figures

No Reading manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Alan Pardew has done less than 26% of losses .

Reading keeps its 4 matches with at least one goal scored running (since 15/03/2003).

Brighton & Hove keeps its 3 consecutive matches without a loss running (since 22/03/2003).

Read the next 14 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DReading 0-0 Walsall18/01/2003

LReading 1-3 Leicester28/01/2003

VReading 2-1 Gillingham10/02/2003

VReading 3-0 Rotherham United22/02/2003

LReading 0-1 Wolverhampton12/03/2003

VReading 2-1 Crystal Palace15/03/2003

Overall

LWimbledon FC 2-0 Reading01/03/2003

VNorwich City 0-1 Reading05/03/2003

LReading 0-1 Wolverhampton12/03/2003

VReading 2-1 Crystal Palace15/03/2003

LIpswich Town 3-1 Reading18/03/2003

VBradford 0-1 Reading22/03/2003

Current form

Away

LWalsall 1-0 Brighton & Hove01/02/2003

VBradford 0-1 Brighton & Hove15/02/2003

LGillingham 3-0 Brighton & Hove01/03/2003

LStoke City 1-0 Brighton & Hove05/03/2003

LSheffield United 2-1 Brighton & Hove18/03/2003

DIpswich Town 2-2 Brighton & Hove22/03/2003

Overall

LStoke City 1-0 Brighton & Hove05/03/2003

VBrighton & Hove 2-0 Rotherham United08/03/2003

VBrighton & Hove 1-0 Nottingham Forest15/03/2003

LSheffield United 2-1 Brighton & Hove18/03/2003

DIpswich Town 2-2 Brighton & Hove22/03/2003

DBrighton & Hove 0-0 Crystal Palace25/03/2003

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	1	1
Drawless streak	5	12
Scoring streak	1	3
Conceding streak	2	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	1	2
Unbeaten streak	1	2
Winless streak	4	3
Scoring streak	2	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	4	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

39	Number of games (Competition total)	40
19	Number of games (Home / Away)	20
21	Victories (Competition total)	9
10	Victories (Home / Away)	3
4	Draws (Competition total)	10
3	Draws (Home / Away)	5
14	Losses (Competition total)	21
6	Losses (Home / Away)	12

Goals

49	Goals scored (Competition total)	40
24	Goals scored (Home / Away)	16
38	Goals conceded (Competition total)	59
17	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	31
1.26	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1
1.26	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.8
0.97	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.48
0.89	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.55

Betting aid

16	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	16
9	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	8
17	Clean sheets (Competition total)	9
7	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	3
12	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	16
6	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	10
13	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	18
8	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	8
2-1 (4 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-1 (7 times)

Bookings

60	Yellow cards (Competition total)	63
24	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	39
3	Red cards (Competition total)	4
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	3

Key players

Nicky Forster	13 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	11 goals	Bobby Zamora
Jamie Cureton	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	Bobby Zamora
Jamie Cureton	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Bobby Zamora
Jamie Cureton	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Nicky Forster	2 goals during the last 2 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last 5 matches	Bobby Zamora

Historical head to head

Home

6 matches

3 v

3 d

0 l

7 gf

1 ga

Away

7 matches

4 v

2 d

1 l

10 gf

8 ga

Total

13 matches

7 v

5 d

1 l

17 gf

9 ga

Historical head to head

Home

7 matches

1 v

2 d

4 l

8 gf

10 ga

Away

6 matches

0 v

3 d

3 l

1 gf

7 ga

Total

13 matches

1 v

5 d

7 l

9 gf

17 ga

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 0	January 16, 1993
Home	3 - 0	January 16, 1993

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 1	February 11, 2002
Away	No success yet

Latest head to head

November 30, 2002 - First Division 2002/2003

Brighton & Hove

0 - 1

Reading

March 09, 2002 - Second Division 2001/2002

Reading

0 - 0

Brighton & Hove logo Brighton & Hove

February 11, 2002 - Second Division 2001/2002

Brighton & Hove

3 - 1

Reading

April 30, 1994 - Second Division 1993/1994

Reading

2 - 0

Brighton & Hove logo Brighton & Hove

November 20, 1993 - Second Division 1993/1994

Brighton & Hove

0 - 1

Reading

Best historical scorers against Brighton & Hove

John Salako

1 goal

2002 - 2002

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 30/11/2002. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Reading

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Players with most games played vs Brighton & Hove

Nicky Shorey	1 match	2002 - 2002
Martin Butler	1 match	2002 - 2002
Kevin Watson	1 match	2002 - 2002
Andy Hughes	1 match	2002 - 2002
Nicky Forster	1 match	2002 - 2002
Graeme Murty	1 match	2002 - 2002

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 30/11/2002. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Reading

Danny Cullip	1 match	2002 - 2002
Kerry Mayo	1 match	2002 - 2002
Paul Brooker	1 match	2002 - 2002
Richard Carpenter	1 match	2002 - 2002
Steve Sidwell	1 match	2002 - 2002
Gary Hart	1 match	2002 - 2002