Reading Vs Preston North End Match Preview

By Mark Sugar
January 13 2004

Swansea will face the winners of this Fa Cup 3rd Round Replay as Craig Brown's Preston North End travel down to the Madejski Stadium.North End have been in great form beating West Ham on Saturday and Reading were lucky to come away with a 3-3 draw recently.Expect a game with plenty of goals.

Reading Vs Preston North End
Match Preview
Fa Cup 3rd Round Replay
Tuesday,13th January
Kick Off 20:00

Team News
With new signing's Lloyd Owusu and Dave Kitson both cup tied after playing in the earlier rounds,either Bas Savage or Dean Morgan will come in to replace Owusu who started and scored against Ipswich last Saturday.
Whoever plays should expect to partner Shaun Goater,who is currently on 198 career goals for his spell in England. Goater scored in the 3-3 draw back at Deepdale
Nicky Forster is rated very doubtful after a stomach injury. He missed the 3-3 draw back at Deepdale and then Saturday's match at home to Ipswich. Forster is hoping to be back for Saturday's game at Nottingham Forest
Steve Sidwell is back after a virus. He missed the draw with Ipswich on Saturday. He should come in for Ricky Newman
Jamie Young will be on the bench as Jamie Ashdown is on-loan at Rushden & Diamonds.
Nathan Tyson won't feature because of an ankle injury sustained while on-loan at Wycombe.

North End manager Craig Brown will not be making changes from the 2-1 win at West Ham despite them rising into 5th place in the league.
Out for PNE are Michael Jackson who serves the 2nd of a 2 game ban.
Eddie Lewis has flown back home to America following the death of his father.
Captain Chris Lucketti should recieve another pain killing injection which kept him playing through the pain barrier at Upton Park at the weekend.

KEY PLAYER FOR PRESTON NORTH END:Ricardo Fuller

Competition Rules
Should the game at 90mins finish as a draw,extra time will be played. No golden goal rule is used. Should after extra time the scorers are still level,the match will go into a penalty shoot-out.

Form Guide
Reading have not won for over a month now with there last victory at Wigan on the 6th December.The Royals held Ipswich to a 1-1 draw on Saturday.
Preston North End inflicted another defeat on Alan Pardew's West Ham as they won 2-1 at Upton Park.Ricardo Fuller and David Healy were the goalscorer's.

Previous Meetings
03/01/2004 Preston 3-3 Reading
18/10/2003 Reading 3-2 Preston
15/04/2003 Reading 5-1 Preston
26/10/2002 Preston 1-0 Reading
05/02/2000 Preston 2-2 Reading
01/09/1999 Reading 2-2 Preston
20/02/1999 Reading 2-1 Preston
12/09/1998 Preston 4-0 Reading
20/02/1993 Reading 4-0 Preston
20/10/1992 Preston 2-0 Reading

Thanks to www.soccer-stats.com for the information

Ticket News & Travel
Prices have been reduced for this game,and tickets will be priced at

West Stand Lower,East Stand,North Stand
Online and Advanced Prices

£12 Adult
£8 Concessions

Matchday Prices
£15 Adult
£11 Concessions

West Stand Upper
Online and Advanced Prices
£15 Adult
£10 Concessions

Matchday Prices
£18 Adult
£12 Concessions

Note:Match Tickets ONLY,no Season Tickets Cards will be in use

Fixtures
Tuesday January 13th 2004
FA Cup Third Round Replay
Scunthorpe Utd Vs Barnsley 19:30
Colchester Vs Accrington 19:45
Rotherham Utd Vs Northampton 19:45
Stoke City Vs Wimbledon 19:45
Wolves Vs Kidderminster 19:45
Bolton Vs Tranmere 20:00
Reading Vs Preston 20:00

Wednesday January 14th 2004
FA Cup Third Round Replay
Chelsea Vs Watford 19:45
Leicester City Vs Man City 19:45 (LIVE ON SKY)
Scarborough Vs Southend Utd 19:45

Saturday January 24th 2004
FA Cup Fourth Round
Southend/Scarborough Vs Watford/Chelsea 12:30 (SKY)
Swansea City Vs Preston/Reading 15:00
Arsenal Vs Middlesbrough 15:00
Coventry City Vs Accrington/Colchester 15:00
Ipswich Town Vs Sunderland 15:00
Luton Town Vs Tranmere/Bolton 15:00
Burnley Vs Gillingham 15:00
Portsmouth Vs Barnsley/Scunthorpe 15:00
Telford Vs Millwall 15:00
Birmingham Vs Wimbledon/Stoke 15:00
Liverpool Vs Newcastle 17:35 (BBC)

Sunday January 25th 2004
FA Cup Fourth Round
Man City/Leicester Vs Tottenham 13:00 (BBC)
Nottm Forest Vs Sheff Utd 14:00
Everton Vs Fulham 15:00
Kidderminster/Wolverhampton Vs West Ham 15:00
Northampton/Rotherham Vs Man Utd 16:05 (SKY)

Thanks to www.bbc.co.uk/football for the above Fa Cup Fixtures

Bits and Bobs
The 4th Round takes place on Saturday 24th January and Sunday 25th January. We have no news of possible replay dates should matches in the 4th Round head into replay's.