Coventry City 2-1 Reading: Matty Godden grabs injury-time winner off the bench
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Reading midfielder John Swift has scored three and assisted two goals this season
Substitute Matty Godden grabbed a 98th-minute winner as Coventry City came from behind to defeat Reading.
Fellow sub Jamie Allen had scored an equaliser with his first touch earlier in the second half after John Swift's penalty had put the visitors ahead.
The hosts have won three of their four games, their best start in the second tier for 14 years.
But the Royals have failed to win any of their last eight away matches.
Godden's goal was City's second straight deep-into-injury-time winner in front of their own fans after doing the same against Nottingham Forest on their return to Coventry on the opening weekend of the season after two years in Birmingham at St Andrew's.
Mark Robins' side were on the offensive straight away as Rafael Cabral was forced to make saves from Viktor Gyokeres and Callum O'Hare (twice).
On-loan Brighton striker Gyokeres was unlucky not to score his third goal of the season when he hit the bar after his initial shot had been blocked.
Having been second best, it was the visitors who took the lead when Swift was pushed over in the penalty area before stepping up to send Simon Moore the wrong way from the spot.
Robins responded with a double change just past the hour mark and, within a minute, Allen deservedly brought his side level with a half-volley for his first goal since January.
Coventry pushed for a winner and Cabral looked to have kept them at bay until, in the eighth minute of injury time (after only six had been signalled by referee David Webb), fit-again Godden fired in the winner on his first appearance of the season.
Coventry City manager Mark Robins told BBC CWR:
"The game needed a bit of energy and Jamie provides that, and obviously Matty Godden has been working so hard over the last few months.
"He has been really frustrated he has been out for the length of time he has been but you could sense he was ready and you could see it.
"It's been a really good, strong week for us and the performance was a really good one."
Reading manager Veljko Paunovic told BBC Radio Berkshire:
"It's a difficult loss. We played until the last second a pretty mature and good game.
"The first half went our way and, in the second half, we recomposed ourselves after their goal. We had a couple of situations we could have affected better but we lacked clarity in the final third and the final product.
"The last second is the only thing and I am very sorry because the guys fought very hard, very well. Not only against the team in front of us but against very suspicious officiating."