Reading 2 (Kebe 79, Oster 83)
Tottenham 2 (Pekhart 39, Livermore 50)

The Royals ended their Barclays Premier Reserve League campaign on a positive note with a come-from-behind 2-2 draw in an entertaining game against Tottenham Hotspur on a rain-saturated night at Aldershot on Monday.

Both teams had chances in the first half with Royals defender Adam Bygrave going close early on before Jonathan Obika missed a sitter for the visitors, stabbing over the bar from six yards.

A well-worked goal from Tomas Pekhart broke the deadlock but Reading came close to levelling when Brynjar Gunnarsson smashed a long-range effort inches wide and James Henry turned a close-range effort over the bar from Graeme Murty's cross.

Jake Livermore made it two for Spurs early in the second half with a precise low shot from the edge of the penalty area, but the game always looked far from over.

Jimmy Kebe nodded Reading back into contention with a placed header from a Murty free-kick, and the equaliser soon followed with the goal of the game when John Oster smashed a rising drive high into the roof of the net from 20 yards.

Henry thought he had won it with a late header from Kelly's cross but the flag was controversially raised for offside.

Henry then created a golden opportunity for a winner with a sumptuous piece of wing play, but his pinpoint cross was headed wide by substitute Nicholas Bignall and the points were shared.

Reading: Federici, Murty, Spence, Bygrave, De La Cruz (capt), Gunnarsson, Oster, Kelly, Frewen (Bignall 60), Kebe, Henry
Subs: Andersen, Kamdjo, Downes, Bryant

Spurs: Button, Smith (Olsen 86), Hutchins, Archibald-Henchville (capt), Dervite, Kasim, Livermore, Fraser-Allen, Obika (Hutton 68), Pekhart, Mason (Mtandari 82)
Subs: Forecast, Townsend

Full report
First team management staff Steve Coppell, Kevin Dillon and Wally Downes were all in attendance to watch a mixture of youth and experience face a young Tottenham team, and Reading were on the front foot from the opening whistle.

The Royals came close in the opening stages when Graeme Murty's right wing cross reached Adam Bygrave in the middle but the defender was just unable to convert.

Then after seven minutes a long ball from left back Daniel Spence deflected into the path of James Henry, whose excellent first touch took him clear of the Spurs defence before his low left footed shot was scrambled away by keeper David Button.

Spurs mustered their first real attack after 15 minutes, when Yaser Kasim shot wide from 20 yards after a corner was partially cleared.

The visitors then squandered a glorious opportunity when Kyle Fraser-Allen made a great run down the right and his low cross was deflected to Jonathan Obika at the far post, only for the winger to inexplicably fire over an unguarded net from six yards.

Tottenham were now in the ascendancy, and after 24 minutes Czech striker Tomas Pekhart forced a good diving save from Adam Federici with a fierce left footed strike from the edge of the box after a slick passing move.

Reading started to regain some momentum and with half an hour on the clock a clever combination of passes between Murty and Brynjar Gunnarsson led to a corner which resulted in a low 20-yard shot from John Oster, but Button held well.

Henry was then released by a well-weighted pass from Oster, and the youngster turned away from onrushing keeper Button to create a shooting chance but Button retreated quickly to gratefully cling on.

After 35 minutes Jimmy Kebe's pace won a corner and it was worked short for Gary Frewen to cross into the near post, where Henry sent a flicked header narrowly wide across the face of goal.

Then a foul by Bygrave on Adam Smith led to a free kick on the edge of the area, but Spurs were unable to profit as Jake Livermore curled a weak effort straight into Federici's arms.

But the visitors did take the lead after 39 minutes. Captain Troy Archibald-Henchville ran powerfully from the back and slid a pass to Obika, who atoned for his earlier miss with a lovely backheel to release Pekhart for a comfortable low finish.

A second nearly followed immediately when Livermore's clever pass released Ryan Mason on the edge of the box, but his left-footed strike flew high over Federici's crossbar.

An entertaining half ended with two more chances for Reading - first Gunnarsson chested down a loose ball 30 yards from goal and fizzed a perfectly struck half-volley inches wide of the right hand post.

Then, inside stoppage time, Oster released Murty on the right-hand side of the penalty and the Scotland international drove a fierce low cross to the unmarked Henry, who could only turn his first-time right-footed effort over the bar.

The Royals started the second half brightly, just as they had done the first, with Henry delivering a delicious right wing cross inches above the head of the onrushing Julian Kelly as the rain continued to pour down.

But it was Spurs who doubled the advantage on 50 minutes when Obika advanced down the left and cut back a low pass for Livermore, who finished crisply with a firm right-footed shot into the right hand corner, giving Federici no chance.

Five minutes Kebe wasted an opportunity to pull one back, header wastefully over the crossbar from Spence's pinpoint left wing cross, and the Royals still looked capable of getting back into the game as Murty had a rare effort on goal as his header skimmed well wide from another Spence cross.

But for the first time, the game then went through a quiet phase with neither team able to create any meaningful openings for a reasonably lengthy period.

With 15 minutes remaining substitute Nicholas Bignall won a free-kick 25 yards out with a neat turn, but Henry's set-piece attempt was deflected wide by the defensive wall and the resulting corner flew harmlessly across the face of goal.

On 79 minutes the Royals got back in it, just as another deluge of rain got underway, as Murty's right wing free kick was met at the far post by Kebe and his precise header dropped inside the right-hand upright.

The game was levelled in spectacular style three minutes later when Henry ran at the Spurs defence on the edge of the box and laid it off for Oster, who produced a thumping rising drive into the top right corner,

Like the rain, the action continued to flow and with five minutes remaining Henry through he'd won it with a neat post header into the net from a Kelly cross, but the linesman's flag was controversially raised for offside even though it appeared that Kelly had crossed the ball backwards from the byline.

Spurs were rarely threatening by now although sub David Hutton dragged a 20-yard shot into the side-netting, before Henry won and took a free-kick on the edge of the box but again found the defensive wall.

An outstanding chance to win the game was created by the hard-working Henry inside injury time as the England under 19 international jinked down the right wing to deliver an outstanding near post cross, but the unmarked Bignall could only head wide and the spoils were shared.