Wycombe suffered a narrow 2-1 loss to Reading in the Blues' first pre-season friendly on home turf, with Gylfi Sigurdsson's penalty and Hal Robson-Kanu's finish turning the game around after Jon-Paul Pittman's 8th minute opener.
The livewire striker latched on to a smart quickly-taken free-kick by Ian Westlake to slot the ball under the keeper and spring a surprise on the Championship promotion hopefuls.
But Jobi McAnuff won a penalty for the Royals after a push from Blues trialist Liam Bridcutt and Sigurdsson dispatched the spot-kick confidently.
The Icelandic midfielder then won another spot-kick moments later when Alan Bennett brought him down in the box, but this time Nikki Bull made a fine save on his home debut to keep the scores level.
However, the visitors weren't to be denied a second and they went ahead when Noel Hunt's fine cross was turned home by Robson-Kanu from inside the six-yard box.
Wanderers: Bull; Foster (McCoy, HT), Johnson (Winfield, HT), Westwood (Bennett, 45), Westlake; Ainsworth, Montrose (Murtagh, HT), Bloomfield (Bridcutt, HT), Betsy (Federico, 77; McClure, 86); Rendell (Strevens, HT), Pittman.
Unused sub: Arnold.
Reading: Federici (Hamer, 66); Griffin, Mills, Pearce, Williams (Tabb, 66); McAnuff (Robson-Kanu, 75), Sigurdsson (Long, 80), Karacan (Taylor, 66), Howard (Gunnarsson, 66), Kebe (Antonio, 75); Church (Hunt, 72).
Timeline:
8mins: GOAL - Jon-Paul Pittman opens the scoring after latching on to a quick free-kick from Ian Westlake and firing home.
12mins: SAVE - Nikki Bull from makes a flying save to deny Jimmy Kebe and Jem Karacan's effort is deflected wide for a corner.
13mins: CHANCE - From the resulting corner, Matt Mills heads just over the bar.
20mins: CHANCE - Scott Rendell breaks into the area and cuts on to his right foot, but his curled effort is saved by Federici.
30mins: CHANCE - Gylfi Sigurdsson's goalbound volley is blocked by Gareth Ainsworth and deflected behind for a corner.
33mins: SAVE - Nikki Bull denies Simon Church with a dive to his left and pounces on the rebound to thwart the former Blues loanee.
38mins: SAVE - Best move of the game from Wycombe as Jon-Paul Pittman's exquisite reverse pass finds Matt Bloomfield unmarked in the box, but his effort is kept out by Federici.
43mins: CHANCE - Jem Karacan misses a sitter for the Royals, shooting wide from 6 yards after Jimmy Kebe's knockback.
HT: SUBS - Six changes for the Blues, with Marvin McCoy, Dave Winfield, Alan Bennett, Keiran Murtagh, Liam Bridcutt and Ben Strevens replacing Danny Foster, Chris Westwood, Leon Johnson, Lewis Montrose, Matt Bloomfield and Scott Rendell.
52mins: CHANCE - Sigurdsson lifts the ball over the bar from inside the box as Nikki Bull dives at his feet to hurry the midfielder's effort.
58mins: CHANCE - Intricate football from Strevens and Murtagh inside the box and Ainsworth then volleys wide of the near post.
64mins: PENALTY - Jobi McAnuff goes to ground after a brush from Liam Bridcutt and the referee points to the spot.
65mins: GOAL - Sigurdsson hammers it into the bottom corner to level the scores.
66mins: SUBS - Ben Hamer, Jay Tabb, Jake Taylor and Bryn Gunnarsson replace Adam Federici, Marcus Williams, Brian Howard and Jem Karacan for the visitors.
68mins: PENALTY - Alan Bennett brings down Sigurdsson when through on goal and the Royals win another penalty.
69mins: SAVE - Nikki Bull makes a fine save to deny the Icelandic midfielder's second spot-kick.
72mins: SUB - Noel Hunt replaces Simon Church.
75mins: SUBS - Hal Robson-Kanu and Michail Antonio replace Jobi McAnuff and Jimmy Kebe.
77mins: SUB - Jerome Federico comes on for Kevin Betsy.
78mins: GOAL - Hal Robson-Kanu turns home from close range following a fine cross from Noel Hunt.
80mins: SUB - Shane Long replaces Gylfi Sigurdsson.
86mins: SUB - Matt McClure comes on for the injured Jerome Federico.
FT: Reading hold on for the 2-1 win.
