Reading vs Southampton Match Thread

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
Connolly got into good spaces on a number of occasions but didn't get the passes he needed to make any impact. Once again Ricky was providing some really good passes, that if he had been on the end of, might have scored! Reading did tire at the end and we were fitter than them at the end but with only ten men we could not make it count.
 
st_brendy said:
You've all said how bad Guly was today, and how luckly we were, so I wont bother getting into all of that and just repeating what has already been said. But I haven't seen Connolly mentioned.

I'm not saying for one second that he played badly, so I want to make that clear from the start. But he was just not in the game - completely and utterly non-existent up front by himself. Now I haven't been to an away game this season, so I don't know if he usually finds himself isolated as much he did today, but I wouldn't be surprised if he did.

There's nothing wrong with going away from home and basically having just the one guy all alone up front, but for it to work they either need to have pace, height or strength (so that the ball sticks, and they can hold onto it, or so that they can worry the defence). Connolly doesn't have these attributes, and Pearce and Gorrks dealt with him with ease. Playing it up to Connolly on his own was only one step away from just giving it straight back to Reading. So my point is if this is indeed a common occurance away from home, then Connolly simply should not be starting away from home. De Ridder, who does have one of those attributes (pace), could be a much better option.
Click to expand...

True connolly didn't do much either, but then did lambert do much more?.
I think reading just completely marked them out the game with their fast play hurrying style of play.
De ridder was brought on at about the right to when reading started to tirer.
All in all im pleased with the point.
 
Jean Bedel Bokassa said:
True connolly didn't do much either, but then did lambert do much more?.
I think reading just completely marked them out the game with their fast play hurrying style of play.
De ridder was brought on at about the right to when reading started to tirer.
All in all im pleased with the point.
Click to expand...

Without a doubt. I wanted a point before the game even started, so to have been 1-0, down to 10 men, and completely outplayed, a point really is good going.

Putting the performance to one side, the simple fact - as has been mentioned by a few on here already - is that winning your home games and drawing your away games is promotion form.

Beat Boro on Saturday, and this month would have rewarded us with 3 wins and 2 draws from our 5 league games. In this division that's a good month in anyone's book, but especially so when you look at who we'd have played over the month.
 
Gotta say Reading did their game plan well, but it is well documented about Saints tenacity coupled with the new fitness regime.

Very very glad of the point. No, we didn't deserve it but then "Lesta" didn't deserve the 3 points against us; this stuff happens. At the start of the week would you take 4 points....oh yes! Just panned out differently :-)
 
So, trying to summarize what everyone has said;

We put in the worst performance of the season so far, against one of the best teams in the division, away from home, had our captain sent off, Guly was having an off day, and we got a point. Oh, and our best player didn't even make the bench.

I can't be too disappointed really.
 
CRBA said:
Very very glad of the point. No, we didn't deserve it but then "Lesta" didn't deserve the 3 points against us; this stuff happens. At the start of the week would you take 4 points....oh yes! Just panned out differently :-)
Click to expand...

I think back to Walsall away last season. We should have won that game 5-0, maybe more; we had that many chances. But we lost 1-0.

That's football.
 
I said that would be happy with 6 points minimum from the 4 league games, Derby (a) West Ham (h) Reading (a) Boro (h)....we have 5 points with a game against Boro at home to come. The run of games after are potentionally a lot easier, so, to still be top after the Boro game is a huge bonus. Also, we are unbeaten in these games, therefore not conceding points to the chasing teams.
 
Really pleased for Martin. Got a good half under his belt and the way Fonte was playing I am sure we would have gone down to ten men sooner had he stayed on.
 
Adkins described it as a point gained. He reckons it was one game too far and he should have rested more players. I thought six points would be a decent return from this difficult month and we have five already. Now need to maintain our home form against Boro and we could stretch that lead.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back