Exeter City 1-1 Reading: Royals drop into League One relegation places

Marriott showed his experience as he cleverly read Yfeko's back-post header and poked the ball through Joe Whitworth's legs in the fifth minute.

But Exeter got a deserved equaliser soon after a Reece Cole's low pass from deep in the right side of the Reading box was blasted home by Wareham as he faced his former club for the first time since his summer move to Devon.

The Grecians played some excellent one-touch football in midfield and should have been further ahead as Cole forced a good save from Joel Pereira.

Exeter skipper Pierce Sweeney headed over at the far post after Wareham had narrowly missed getting on the end of a Danny Andrew cross as the hosts impressed before the break.

Reading took control in the second period and Marriott should have put them in front again, but put an excellent 58th-minute chance over the bar from 10 yards after former Exeter loanee Kamari Doyle got free down the right.

Yfeko blocked a Ritchie header from six yards two minutes later, before Jacob poked over from a similar range soon.

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