Black Stars Defender Voted Reading Player of the Month for March

• England-based Ghanaian right-back Andy Yiadom has been voted as the Player of the Month for March for Reading
• It is the first time that Yiadom has won this award since his very first month at the club, August 2018
• He played a bit-part role in the road to Qatar 2022 as Ghana held West African rivals Nigeria in a 1-1 draw on Tuesday

Black Stars full-back Andy Yiadom has been voted as the Player of the Month for March for English Championship club Reading FC.

The 30-year-old right-back received 35% of the votes, ahead of Tom Ince and Josh Laurent (both 25%) and Tom Holmes (15%) to clinch his first Player of the Month award for the ongoing campaign.

Yiadom was excellent for the former Premier League club throughout last month.

He grabbed the man-of-the-match accolade against Nottingham Forest before falling short in the race for the individual award in Reading's game against Bournemouth.

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The former Barnsley defender capped off an eventful March with qualification to the 2022 FIFA World Cup which will be staged in Qatar later this year.

Yiadom did not play a part in the first leg of the World Cup play-offs against Nigeria, which was staged at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium.

Instead, Andy was given game time in the reverse fixture in the second half where he came to shore up the defence of Ghana as the Black Stars held on to a 1-1 draw to qualify on the away goal rule.

Yiadom would hope his recent accolade will spur him on as Reading fights for survival in the SkyBet English Championship.

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The defender, who played the whole game last Sunday said the penalty against the Bafana Bafana, which led to Ghana's victory was a soft one.

In an interview with the BBC, the England-based player revealed he had to re-watch the game to see whether it was a penalty or not.