The last time Reading won their first four league games they were promoted. It is early days but things are certainly heading in the right direction under Veljko Paunovic.
Yes there was a touch of fortune to the win here but Paunovic could not have wished for a better start to life in English management. Watford have ambitions of bouncing straight back to the Premier League and consigning the Hornets to their first league defeat of the season signalled Reading’s own intentions this season.
It was the visitors who started the brighter and a man who has been heavily linked with a move to the English top flight who showed the most threat early on.