Reading 4-1 Crawley Town: Crawling To Victory

The hefty scoreline - thanks to goals from Amadou Mbengue, Lewis Wing, Charlie Savage and Sam Smith - somewhat flattered a poor Royals performance.

If you missed this game in real time (and that’d be understandable given the early kick-off), you’d be forgiven for drawing an inaccurate conclusion about Reading’s performance from the scoreline. Great! A 4-1 win. So Reading played very well, surely?

Not really, no. While Reading most certainly had their shooting boots on today - especially Lewis Wing...