On The Ball written by Gareth Payne.

Full-Time: That is last action of the match here at Carrow Road, City go down to two Shane Long headers in the second half.

90+3: Daley and Otsemobor combine down the right, the latter delivering a deep cross, Lee leaves it for McDonald. The striker's header is caught by Hahnemann above his head.

90+1: Bikey beats Lee in the air from an Otsemobor deep delivery but it loops backwards and out for a corner. Clingan's corner is punched clear by the American Hahnemann.

90th: The fourth official has just signalled there will be a minimum of four minutes of injury time to be played.

89th: Reading are preparing to bring on defender Alex Pearce, the one time City loanee. Striker Dave Kitson is the man to make way for the centre-back.

86th: Kitson shoots from just outside the area, Marshall fields comfortably low at his feet.

83rd: Alan Gow brings a low save out of Hahnemann, down to his left.

80th: A minute later sub Marek Matejovksy is booked for taking away the ankles of Alan Lee from behind.

79th: Alan Lee is booked for supposedly leading with his elbow on Michael Duberry.

78th: Ten minutes after the first, Reading double their lead courtesy of the same combination, a Kebe cross from the left is met by the head Shane Long, squeezing inside the post. Adrian Leijer replaces Jason Shackell in defence.

75th: Good defending from Shackell against Long but the Royals have a corner from the left. Hunt over to take. Doherty heads away the delivery and Daley forces Hunt out and City have a goal kick.

74th: First change by Bryan Gunn, Academy product Luke Daley is coming on for David Carney on the right-hand side of midfield.

73rd: Pressure from McDonald forces a corner. Carney will take from the right.

68th: Shane Long heads Reading in front. Jimmy Kebe worked himself a yard of space down the left and flighted a cross to the back post where Long was on hand to head in.

67th: Patient build up by City, ends in Carney delivering a cross from the right, which Hahnemann can only tip-on. Alan Lee unmarked at the back post can't quite grow enough and heads out for a goal kick.

65th: Shane Long breaks away for the Royals down the right, Shackell forces him wide but he still manages to get a shot in that Marshall watches over his bar.

63rd: Reading make their second change, Marek Matejovsky replaces Kalifa Cisse.

62nd: Jimmy Kebe wins a corner off Otsemobor, Hunt to take from the left. A foul on Alan Lee from the corner and David Marshall has a free-kick to take inside his own box.

60th: Reading have another free-kick, just inside the City half on the left for a supposed foul by David Carney on Dan Harding, on loan from Ipswich. The loanee defender's delivery beats everything though.

59th: Reading have a free-kick on the right touchline, Hunt to take, Clingan heads clear at the near post.

58th: A combination of Doherty and Otsemobor head behind for a Reading corner. The corner falls to Karacan on the edge of the box and he beats two men by McDonald throws himself in front of the young midfielder's shot to block.

56th: Reading work a throw-in on the left, swinging in a cross to the back stick, where Stephen Hunt, the first half sub, meets it with a downward header that lacks any power and dribbles through to Marshall.

53rd: Tonight's attendance is announced as 25,041.

52nd: McDonald gets a run at Bikey and looks to have him beat for pace but the striker is harshly adjudged to have tripped or pushed the big defender bearing down on goal. Alan Lee is spoken to by referee Clive Oliver for his protestations.

50th: Kalifa Cisse is booked for a late challenge on Russell in the centre of the park.

49th: Alan Gow's turn this time to almost give City the lead. Otsemobor found the on loan Rangers forward in space on the right edge of the penalty. Gow turned and curled an effort left-footed that had Hahnemann stranded but just beat the angle of post and bar.

We're underway for the second half at Carrow Road.

The players are back out for the second half, City to get us underway kicking towards the Norwich and Peterborough Stand.

Half-Time: That is the half, referee Clive Oliver blows his whistle and we go in at the break goalless.

45th: A minimum of one minute to be added on at the end of the half and the substitute Stephen Hunt starts that minute with a poor corner.

42nd: Sammy Clingan comes very close to giving City the lead. Reading half clear a delivery into the box, Kebe flicks it away and Clingan on the half-volley, first time fizzes an effort through a crowded penalty area and just wide of Hahnemann's right-hand post, the American must have seen it late through the crowd, reacting late.

41st: A change for Reading, Stephen Hunty is coming on to replace Glen Little.

39th: City dispossess Reading in midfield and Carney finds himself on the left flank, but his attempted cross takes a deflection off Bikey and goes through to Hahnemann.

38th: Harding delivers a cross from the left but Shackell is there, but skies it high over his own bar for a corner, which City with Doherty clear.

37th: Really good strong defending from Jason Shackell against Kitson, also on loan (Stoke), and the defender wins a free-kick.

35th: Otsemobor concedes a corner, which Glen Little, on loan from Portsmouth will take from the right but David Marshall comes to punch clear.

33rd: Carney unleashes a fierce drive from just over 30 yards out that has Hahnemann worried, but it flies narrowly over the American's bar.

31th: Otsemobor beats two down the right and delivers a cross to the back post, which Alan Lee heads back into the mixer. McDonald meets his strike partner's header with an overhead kick but Hahnemann catches.

30th: Dan Harding's free-kick from the right is met first by Russell then away by Shackell and Carney completes the job.

26th: Dave Kitson drews a foul from Gary Doherty about 22 yards from goal. Bikey strikes it, powerfully but the man on the edge of the area gets an important block in and City can clear.

23rd: Sammy Clingan strikes the free-kick right-footed left of centre into the side netting, Hahnemann just about had it covered at his near post.

22nd: Cody McDonald is scythed down on the edge of the Reading box, the former Dartford striker cut inside Andre Bikey and was caught by Liam Rosenior, who is the first player is referee Clive Oliver's notebook this evening.

18th: The game is being played out in the midfield and Darel Russell is penalised for a foul on Jem Karacan, the young Turkish midfielder stays down to receive treatment.

11th: Jason Shackell is well placed to block Shane Long's shot. The pace of the Reading break and Jimmy Kebe down the left created the chance for the Irish striker.

9th: Darel Russell has the first shot of the match, Otsemobor's cross was half cleared to the edge of the area to the central midfielder, but his low shot was easily gathered by Marcus Hahnemann.

5th: Alan Gow is caught offside looking to get in behind on to Sammy Clingan's lofted pass.

City are attacking the Barclay End first half.

Reading kick the game off.

Bryan Gunn makes two changes from the City side that lost to Ipswich, David Mooney is ineligible under the terms of his loan from parent club Reading and Lee Croft is out injured. In comes Cody McDonald for his first start and David Carney. Steve Coppell makes the one change, Kalifa Cisse for Jay Tabb.

City: Marshall, Otsemobor, Shackell (Leijer 78), Clingan, Carney (Daley 74), Doherty (c), Gow, Russell, Bertrand, Lee, McDonald. Subs not used: Cureton, Lappin, Nelson (GK).

Reading: Hahnemann, Cisse (Matejovsky 63), Kebe, Kitson (Pearce 89), Karacan, Rosenior, Bikey, Long, Duberry (c), Harding, Little (S. Hunt 41). Subs not used: Doyle, Federici (GK).