Reading 3-2 West Brom All Goals 12 January 2013 Reading [3 - 2] West Bromwich Albion

Reading staged a sensational and unlikely late comeback to take all three points from a match in which West Brom should have won at their leisure. Romelu Lukaku looked to have hammered another couple of nails into Reading’s Premier League coffin, but goals from Jimmy Kébé, Adam La Fondre and Pavel Pogrebnyak in the last 10 minutes transformed the mood at the Madejski Stadium from outright hostility to bemused jubilation, leaving the home side down among the dead men but with their fans still entertaining hopes of survival.

For 80 minutes, this looked to be West Brom’s afternoon. Lukaku was rampant and will return to the Midlands wondering how on earth he didn’t score several more. Profligacy and bad luck combined to keep his tally for the day at two and give Reading victory on a bitterly cold day in Berkshire.

Ten minutes later, Reading flicked with the switch and a deluge of goals ensued. Kébé, who had blown an excellent chance in the first half with a leaden-footed first touch, bagged what looked like a consolation, taking advantage of a clever dummy by Pogrebnyak to stoop low and head home from close range at the far post. Two minutes time, Reading looked to have secured an all but useless point when substitute Adam Le Fondre converted from the spot after a Jonas Olsson foul on Kébé, before Pogrebnyak warmed the rapidly thawing cockles of Reading fans’ hearts, lifting the ball deftly over Ben Foster from seven yards in stoppage time to leave his side two points clear of QPR and not entirely without hope of survival.