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Lucas Joao's equaliser for Reading left Barnsley with just two wins in 21 league games

Lucas Joao's second-half goal rescued a point for Reading at the Championship's bottom side Barnsley.

The Tykes went ahead after the break when Cauley Woodrow coolly slotted into the bottom corner when the ball broke to him in the box.

Joao levelled by poking the ball into the back of the net from close range after Barnsley failed to clear a corner.

An entertaining game at Oakwell saw both sides create numerous opportunities, but a combination of fine goalkeeping and poor finishing meant neither could pick up a crucial victory.

Barnsley are still seven points from safety and will surely feel frustrated they failed to cap a dominant first half with a goal or see out the game once they went ahead.

Jacob Brown fired a good chance over for the hosts early on, Alex Mowatt struck into the side netting and Conor Chaplin was denied by Royals goalkeeper Rafael Cabral on the stroke of half-time.

Reading also had chances to score as Charlie Adam had a couple of long-range efforts palmed away by Samuel Radlinger and Jordan Obita blasted over just before Woodrow broke the deadlock with his eighth goal of the season.

But Barnsley's habit of conceding late on continued when Portuguese forward Joao pounced with the ball bobbling around in the box.

Substitute Patrick Schmidt had two chances to win it for the hosts late on but Cabral saved them.

Barnsley boss Gerhard Struber told BBC Radio Sheffield:

"We created a lot of good chances in the first half and I think we should have taken one of them. We need to learn.

"We played for a victory after they equalised and I think that is the first step to change the mindset of the players.

"I'm not happy with one point because when you look at the game you would expect that we would have won it.

"We needed to focus on their goal and one or two players didn't do that. It's a situation we can learn from because we are a very young team."

Reading manager Mark Bowen:

"In the situation we're in, you've got to try and take something out of every game you play.

"I'm really pleased that after going behind in a game and conceding a poor goal, we showed the resilience to keep pushing and we changed a few things tactically and it paid off.

"We huffed and puffed a bit and showed a bit more quality on the ball, but it's not going that fluidly for us at the moment at times.

"Things seem to be going against us with injuries, but there was desire to fight back and take something."