Premiership · Matchday 15

Reading v Manchester United

3–4

HT 3–4

Saturday 1st December 2012 · Madejski Stadium · Att: 24,095

Manchester United beat Reading 4–3 at Madejski Stadium on Saturday 1st December 2012 in the Premiership. Olivera Anderson (13'), Wayne Rooney (16', 30') and Robin van Persie (34') scored for United.

Timeline

Running score

Kick Off
8' Hal Robson-Kanu 1–0
13' Olivera Anderson Assist: Ashley Young 1–1
16' Wayne Rooney pen 1–2
19' Adam Le Fondre Assist: Nicky Shorey 2–2
23' Sean Morrison Assist: Nicky Shorey 3–2
28' Rafael da Silva
30' Wayne Rooney Assist: Patrice Evra 3–3
34' Robin van Persie Assist: Wayne Rooney 3–4
34' Chris Smalling for Rafael
45' Phil Jones for Anderson
Half Time 3–4
74' Danny Welbeck for van Persie
79' Jay Tabb
Full Time 3–4

Match Facts

Starting XI

Player

8 Oliveira Anderson 13'

10 Wayne Rooney 16', 30'

13 Anders Lindegaard

16 Michael Carrick

18 Ashley Young

20 Robin van Persie 34'

Substitutes

34' for Rafael

45' for Anderson

74' for van Persie

Reading Lineup

4-4-2

Starting XI

1 Adam Federici G

3 Nicky Shorey LB

6 Adrian Mariappa CD-L

8 Mikele Leigertwood CM-R

9 Adam Le Fondre CF-R ⚽

11 Jobi McAnuff LM

15 Sean Morrison CD-R ⚽

16 Jay Tabb CM-L

19 Hal Robson-Kanu RM ⚽

24 Shaun Cummings RB

33 Jason Roberts CF-L

Substitutes

5 Alex Pearce

7 Pavel Pogrebnyak on

10 Noel Hunt on

12 Garath McCleary on

20 Danny Guthrie

23 Ian Harte

41 Stuart Taylor

Opposition lineup via ESPN. Opposition players do not have profile pages on this site.

Managers

MUFC

Alex Ferguson

Manchester United

OPP

Brian McDermott

Reading

Match Information

Man Utd

4-3-3

Formation

Reading

4-4-2

Man Utd Reading

53%

Possession

47%

Shots

Shots on Target

Corners

Fouls

Offsides

United vs Reading History

Meeting 17 of 22

Played

Won

Drawn

Lost

Goals For

Goals Against

All-time record, from the first meeting on Saturday 24th February 1912. After this match United had played Reading 17 times: 9W 7D 1L.

27 Feb 2007 W 3–2 FAC 12 Aug 2007 D 0–0 PL 19 Jan 2008 W 2–0 PL

1 Dec 2012 W 4–3 This match

18 Feb 2013 W 2–1 FAC 16 Mar 2013 W 1–0 PL 7 Jan 2017 W 4–0 FAC

All-time	P	W	D	L	F	A	Win%
Home	12	9	3	0	26	8	75.0
Away	9	5	4	0	19	10	55.6
Neutral	1	0	0	1	1	2	0.0

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Match results, lineups and goalscorers compiled from mufcinfo.com; advanced match statistics (xG, shots, possession) via FBref and FotMob where available. Last updated 29 September 2026. How we compile this data →