Championship roundup: Reading score inside 10 seconds in win at Blackburn

27-Oct-2020 23:12:02 | The Guardian

Royals win 4-2 at Ewood Park to go seven points clear at top
Wycombe seal first point of season after 1-1 draw with Watford

Reading scored inside 10 seconds as they continued their best start to a season for 35 years with a 4-2 win at Blackburn. The Royals are a surprise package following Veljko Paunovic’s appointment midway through pre-season as they won for a seventh time from eight games.

The foundations of the victory at Ewood Park was won in a crazy opening 18 minutes where Reading went 3-1 up thanks to goals from Yakou Méïté – clocked as the fastest in the club’s history – Michael Olise and Josh Laurent. Adam Armstrong had made it 1-1 and then got Blackburn back in it in the second half, but Lucas João killed the game in the final 10 minutes.