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JOSE ‘SHATTERED’ BY ROYAL BRAVES

Gomes’ salute to battlers
By Russell Kempson

FIVE STAR: Yakou Meite has scored the winner for Reading
PICTURE: PSI/Jason Brown

AN “exhausted” Jose Gomes praised his Reading side’s battling qualities after they twice came from behind to beat fellow Championship strugglers Wigan Athletic.
Wigan went ahead through a close-range finish from Nick Powell only for John Swift to equalise from a free-kick on the stroke of half-time.
Joe Garner restored Wigan’s lead in the second half, but late goals from Mo Barrow and Yakou Meite – the latter in the 97th ...

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