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The ref has blown his whistle for full time.
Goal!! Brian Howard scores for Reading.
Goal!! Patrick Agyemang scores for QPR.
Adel Taarabt is being taken off, Patrick Agyemang has come on in his place.
Goal!! Rowan Vine scores for QPR.
Akos Buzsaky is replaced by Gavin Mahon.
Simon Church is being taken off, Hal Robson-Kanu has come on in his place.
QPR are replacing Jay Simpson with Rowan Vine.
Jay Tabb is being taken off, Brian Howard has come on in his place.
It's red. He's off. Ivar Ingimarsson has been sent off.
The second half is under way with the score currently at 2 v 0.
Reading are replacing Kalifa Cisse with Gylfi Sigurdsson.
Half time whistle is blown by A Hall
Alejandro Faurlin goes into the referee's book for unsporting behaviour.
Goal!! QPR have scored with Jay Simpson putting it in the back of the net.
The referee has booked Ivar Ingimarsson.
Goal!! Akos Buzsaky scores for QPR.
It's red. He's off. Ben Watson has been sent off.
Gary Borrowdale is booked for unsporting behaviour.
Ben Watson is booked for unsporting behaviour.
It's 8pm on Tuesday, October 20th, the match has kicked off.
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Both teams had a player sent off as QPR maintained their brilliant form and piled more pressure on Reading manager Brendan Rodgers. Goals from Akos Buzsaky, Jay Simpson, Rowan Vine and Patrick Agyemang condemned Reading to a third consecutive defeat and left many of their fans at Loftus Road chanting for Rodgers to be sacked. Rangers, who thrashed Preston 4-0 on Saturday, have scored 13 goals in their last three home matches and dominated this game despite Ben Watson being sent off for the second time in succession. Watson - back from a ban after being dismissed at Swansea - had already been booked for an early foul when he took a free-kick before referee Andy Hall had blown the whistle. Hall deemed that offence worthy of a second yellow card, and Rangers were reduced to 10 men. But it was Reading's misfortune that the set-piece was not taken quickly, because as Watson was walking down the tunnel, Buzsaky curled the free-kick into the bottom corner of the net. Rangers went further ahead six minutes before the break, when Wayne Routledge charging down the right and crossed to the far post, where Simpson netted his fourth goal since joining on loan from Arsenal. Reading were unlucky not to reduce the deficit on the stroke of half-time, when Simon Church's free-kick struck the post. But the Royals' hopes of a comeback were crushed by Ivar Ingimarsson's sending-off just 23 seconds into the second half. The Icelander, booked in the first period, foolishly clattered into Simpson and was shown another yellow card. Vine twice failed to finish after being set up by Routledge, but he made amends by firing home from the edge of the penalty area on 71 minutes. And Agyemang added a fourth by racing onto Gavin Mahon's pass and rounding keeper Adam Federici before tapping into an empty net. Reading were thoroughly outclassed, but did net a consolation goal when Brian Howard scored from close range with four minutes left.
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