Decent second half, but looked like Blackpool had long since settled for 1-0. Think the way we set up was terrible. Really like Ince, though still lacking a little on the end product. Meite looks like he's fully fit which is good. Hoilett still got the twists and the turns, wasted in our half. Holmes and McIntyre good. NGW looks ok, didn't seem very trusted and a couple of unlucky slips. Ejaria did decent defensive work. Fornah and Hendrick grew into the game, Hendrick in particular. Yiadom good but handicapped playing CB. Poor from Ince imo. Don't mind the result, but I want to see him get the basics right, and he hasn't today for…
FFS make some changes, with 5 changes available freshen it up, we'll pick up injuries like when Gomes was in charge Same old story with Ince.....desperate to change things and no subs. A bench full of inexperienced youngsters but surely you give them a run out for 10/15 minutes when chasing a game, even if it’s to just freshen things up, otherwise what’s the point in naming them on the bench in the first place? Should have taken the game to Blackpool from the start. Reading’s strengths are really the forward options so play to them. Sounds like the defence is still ropey but let’s hope getting Loum and Sarr into the team will make…
Sounds like it got better as it went but really need those players fit and in the side asap Lots of corners - bit frustrating when due to the EFL being slow and rubbish we couldn’t play our 6ft 6 CB
No need to panic yet, let's judge it after a month. Think Loum and Sarr will make a difference. Not really sure how Sarr will make much difference, Holmes and McIntyre both played pretty well. NGW looked ok. At best it frees up Yiadom to play RWB, but that means dropping Hoilett probably. Not really much of a plus for me. Loum presumably for Fornah could be handy. But it wasn't really any of the cogs that were the problem for me, it was the way they were put together.
Decent second half, but looked like Blackpool had long since settled for 1-0. Think the way we set up was terrible. Really like Ince, though still lacking a little on the end product. Meite looks like he's fully fit which is good. Hoilett still got the twists and the turns, wasted in our half. Holmes and McIntyre good. NGW looks ok, didn't seem very trusted and a couple of unlucky slips. Ejaria did decent defensive work. Fornah and Hendrick grew into the game, Hendrick in particular. Yiadom good but handicapped playing CB. Poor from Ince imo. Don't mind the result, but I want to see him get the basics right, and he hasn't today for…
Re: the substitutions - I can understand if P.Ince thought it was important to give players as much game time together as possible. It's not like we weren't creating chances or had any obvious defensive problems - we just couldn't quite get it all working at the same time. Not sure that bringing new players into the mix would have helped.
1 sub with 7 minutes to go when losing? Leopards don’t change their spots.
Second half we were the ones pushing. We absolutely 100% could have taken off a defender or a midfielder for Long with 20 / 30 minutes to go. We could have given Scott a go on the wing over Ejaria. Or freshened up midfield with Leavy. Minimum expectation there is a substitution by 75 minutes at the latest and at least one more around 80.
This Championship game took place 1434 days ago in the 2022/2023 season.