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Championship Play-Off Final live as it happened: Huddersfield beat Reading in penalty shootout to win Premier League promotion

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Huddersfield Town returned to the top flight of English football for the first time in 45 years after a dramatic 4-3 penalty shootout win over Reading in the Championship Play-Off Final at Wembley on Monday.

The game finished 0-0 after extra time and Christopher Schindler struck the winning penalty for Huddersfield after Reading failed to convert their last two spot-kicks.

Huddersfield missed two great chances in the opening 10 minutes when Michael Hefele headed wide and Izzy Brown stabbed wide from point-blank range after Elias Kachunga had slipped the ball across the face of the goal.

But the quality of what had promised to be an exciting game gradually declined as nerves and tiredness began to dominate and the game remained goalless after extra-time.

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Referee: Neil Swarbrick

Huddersfield Town XI: Ward, Lowe, Smith, Schindler, Hefele, Hogg, Kachunga, Mooy, Van la Parra, Wells, Brown

Substitutes: Coleman, Whitehead, Hudson, Holmes-Dennis, Cranie, Palmer, Quaner

Reading XI: Al-Habsi, Gunter, Blackett, Ilori, Moore, Van den Berg, Evans, Williams, Swift, Grabban, Kermorgant.

Substitutes: Jaakkola, Beerens, Mendes, McCleary, Popa, Obita, Kelly