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Reading FC legends Glen Little and Nicky Shorey give their Royals FA Cup assessment.

Shorey, who is now a coach with Reading's third round opponents Stevenage, and Glen Little, preview Saturday's tie for Reading.

"If you don't [get through], it's a bad fixture really," Little told 大象传媒 Radio Berkshire's Tim Dellor. "You're playing a team in League Two, not in great form.

"If you win, no-one is really going to give you any credit, if you don't then the knives will be out... if they're not already out."

And Shorey thinks that the mood in Reading camp is low, ahead of facing his current side on Saturday.

"[It's] that atmosphere where they're having chances and not quite finishing them off, and then everything for the other team...goes in.

"They've got to really knuckle down and see through that, and just keep believing in what they're doing."