Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  I hinga anō a Reading i a rātou i hinga i a Birmingham i te whakataetae Sky Bet Championship i te taiwhanga o Madejski i te pō o te Rāapa. Ahakoa i kaha a Reading i te nuinga o te tukinga, he maha nga waahi i ngaro i nga waahanga whakamutunga o te haurua tuatahi. I tū pakari a Birmingham, ā, i hopu i te toa i te whitu meneti mai i te mutunga, i te wā i hopu ai a Clayton Donaldson i tana whāinga tekau mā ono o te tau. I eke a Clayton Donaldson (māui) ki te wikitōria mō Birmingham City i te wā i hinga ai tana kapa i a Reading 1-0. Ko Donaldson, i hainatia mai i Brentford i te raumati, i eke ki tana whaainga 16 o te wa. Pānui: Federici, Gunter, Cooper, Hector, Ake, McCleary (Appiah 63), Karacan, Chalobah, Obita, Mackie (Stacey 63), Blackman (Novakovich 81) Kāore i whakamahia: Kelly, Norwood, Akpan, Andersen. Kua whakauruhia: Obita. BIRMINGHAM CITY: Randolph, Spector, Morrison, Kiernan, Caddis (Dyer 62), Tesche, Gleeson, Fabbrini (Shinnie 34), Grounds, Donaldson, Thomas (Gray 77) Kāore i te whakamahia: Cotterill, Novak, Doyle, Davis. Ko Lee Mason te kaiwhakawa. Te hunga i tae atu: 14,604. I uru a Reading ki te hinganga 2-1 nui ki a Arsenal, i muri i te waa taapiri, i roto i nga wha whakamutunga o te Ipu i Wembley i te Rahoroi. Ko te kaitiaki whaainga a Adam Federici, nana nei i whaainga te whaainga toa a Alexis Sanchez, i mau tonu ki a Birmingham - me ona hoa rangatira e ono mai i Wembley. I te iti rawa kaore a Reading i te pehanga ki a raatau, ko nga feaa whakamutunga o te whakaheke i whakakorea i te wa i ngaro ai a Millwall 2-0 ki Blackburn Rovers i te po o te Turei. He iti noa iho nga mea hei takaro ma Birmingham, haunga te ngana ki te whakapai ake i te rekoata kino o enei wa e rua noa iho nga wikitoria i roto i nga whakataetae riiki e waru. He whakatuwheratanga uaua, kaore tetahi o nga taha e hiahia ana ki te akiaki i te tere, ka mutu i te wa i aro atu ai a Wes Thomas ki a Federici. Engari he mahi ngoikore tera kaore i raru te kaitiaki o Ahitereiria. Ko te Pānui, e rua noa nga wikitoria i roto i nga keemu 13 o te riiki kei muri i a raatau, kaore he wikitoria i roto i te ono, i tere te whakautu i te wa e wera ana te keemu. Ko Garath McCleary, te kaitakaro o te whiringa toa a Reading ki a Arsenal, i pupuhi i muri i te roa...
Ko Reading kei te 18 o ngā kapa o te whakataetae i te wā e noho ana a Birmingham City ki te 15 o ngā kapa. Ko te kopere a Clayton Donaldson i te meneti 83 i whakawhiwhia ai ki nga tohu e toru. Ko te kapa FA Cup semi-finalists i whakahaere i te mana engari i utua e ratou.