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Reading FC Under-21s are aiming to book a place in the semi-finals of the Premier League 2 Cup.<\/p>\n
Peter Scott\u2019s side have been drawn against Blackburn Rovers in the quarter-final clash, which will be played later this month.<\/p>\n
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The Royals impressed in the group stage, winning five of their six matches, and continued their strong form with a dominant 5-0 victory over Stoke City in the round of 16.<\/p>\n
Read more<\/strong><\/p>\n Blackburn progressed from a group featuring Coventry City, Leyton Orient, and Watford before defeating Ipswich Town to reach the last eight.<\/p>\n Reading first-team coaches Leam Richardson, James Beattie, and Rob Kelly have all spent time in the Rovers Academy, adding a personal dimension to the fixture.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The two sides are separated by just four points in the PL2 table, though the Royals claimed a convincing 4-1 win when they met in January.<\/p>\n Reading were the inaugural winners of the PL2 Cup more than a decade ago and will be looking to reclaim the title.<\/p>\n The quarter-final will be played on Wednesday, March 25 at Accrington Stanley\u2019s Wham Stadium, with kick-off at 7pm.<\/p>\n The club has confirmed that ticket details will be announced in due course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.sports.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reading FC Under-21s are aiming to book a place in the semi-finals of the Premier League 2 Cup. Peter Scott\u2019s side have been drawn against Blackburn Rovers in the quarter-final clash, which will be played later this month. Advertisement The Royals impressed in the group stage, winning five of their six matches, and continued their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2311854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[447902,447903,337430,429805,430626,33727,447905,429806,447904],"class_list":["post-2311853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-blackburn-rovers","tag-coventry-city","tag-ipswich-town","tag-leam-richardson","tag-leyton-orient","tag-premier-league","tag-quarter-final-clash","tag-reading-fc","tag-stoke-city"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Royals-face-Blackburn-Rovers-in-Quarter-final-of-PL2-Cup.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2311855,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311853\/revisions\/2311855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}