Ghanaian duo Andrew Yiadom and Kelvin Abrefa were all in action for Reading FC in their 1-1 draw against Luton Town in the English Championship on Wednesday night.
Ten man Reading battled to a brilliant point against a high-flying Luton Town side and could have taken all three were it not for a late bundled leveller from Carlton Morris.
Andy Carroll, the scorer of the Royals’ opener, had tellingly earned a second yellow card for handballing a corner into the back of the net in search for a second, but Noel Hunt’s men dug in deep and earned something from their penultimate home game of the campaign.
Reading began the second half well and a cross from Guinness-Walker looked like it might find Carroll in the middle. But a diving header from Lockyer took it off the striker’s forehead and behind. The linesman signalled for a goalkick to Carroll’s amazement and an early chance had whistled by.
Joao tested Horvarth with an arcing right-footed effort that needed pushing around the post.
And from the resultant corner, Reading took advantage. Azeez swept an inswinging delivery into the Luton box and Carroll was there to thunder a header past Horvath for 1-0.
Reading were hanging on, but couldn’t hold out. With ten minutes left on the clock, a cross from deep was punched by Lumley onto the head of Adebayo and the ball dropped high from the sky near the Royals goalline where is was bundled in by Morris from a yard out, ending the game one apiece.
Captain Yiadom, started and lasted the full 90 minutes of the game while Abrefa replaced Femi Azeez in the 70th minute mark of the game.
