Paul McShane almost snatched a victory for Reading in the dying seconds of stoppage time but they had to settle for a point when for eighty minutes they looked set to claim a magnificent home win against second placed City. Reading, deservedly ahead by two goal at half time, finally succumbed to intense City pressure to concede two late goals. Having appeared to have weathered the storm of City's second half onslaught the Royals lost their composure and discipline in the last ten minutes allowing the visitors to salvage a point. It was a disappointing outcome for Reading fans but probably a fair reward for City's second half endeavour.
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Reading Let Lead Slip Against Cardiff
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JM John Madejski's Wallet 11 Dec 2017 · 10:14pm
Well that sucked at the end. As good as we were first half, second half we went into ourselves and just let them push us back. Missed some corkers at 2-0 and ooooooh that Mcshane header at the end. Joey and Bamba were imperious In other news, my balls still haven't appeared
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PA paultheroyal 11 Dec 2017 · 10:19pm
That would of been a dreadful 2 nil win but instead it was a shambolic 2:2 draw. Good night.
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BO bobby1413 11 Dec 2017 · 10:21pm
Eh? The colds gone to your head
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WI windermereROYAL 11 Dec 2017 · 10:27pm
Fully deserved the 2-0 HT lead, 20 minutes into the 2nd half we had chances to kill them off, only the last 20 when the taffs put us under the cosh, take a day off work tomorrow and get your arse down to specsavers.
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GE genome 11 Dec 2017 · 10:36pm
I think you can divide that game up into neat quarters We were rubbish until we scored Then great until half time We were solid if unthreatening until Warnock got sent off Then we were pants again
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RO royalsroyalsroyals92 11 Dec 2017 · 10:42pm
I’m a Stam fan, but his second half tactics cost us that win. The players looks confused, disorganised and out of position. At times they were screaming at each other and didn’t know who they were marking, and we completely lost the wide threat when it looked like we moved barrow more centrally up top and moved Aluko into midfield and changed to the dreaded 3–5-2. I don’t think Cardiff looked great, but we didn’t enough to finish them off. Livid.
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JA Jagermesiter1871 11 Dec 2017 · 10:52pm
Not for the first time this season. Almost carbon copy of Fulham. WHY DO WE SIT BACK ON A LEAD. IT NEVER WORKS!! :evil: :evil: :evil:
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LE leon 11 Dec 2017 · 11:02pm
Threw it away 2nd half. We got cocky on 2-0 should have converted chances. Gradually went to pieces as Aluko and Barrow weren’t able to hold the ball to give the defence any respite. Cardiff weren’t world beaters by any stretch and we should have been able to see that game out. Stam should have made subs far earlier than he did but we should have won it at the death. Bizarre.
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BI biff 11 Dec 2017 · 11:07pm
Fuming at the way we threw that away. But all put into perspective by the person receiving CPR on the bus for a good 15 minutes after the match. Really hope they came out the other side. It doesnt really matter eh.
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JC Jackson Corner 11 Dec 2017 · 11:11pm
Didn’t learn the lessons from Barnsley. 2-0 up at half time defended to deep. Said then if we do that against a better side we will be punished. Just hope the penny finally drops. On the plus side just one defeat in nine slowly moving up the table.
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SR Snowflake Royal 11 Dec 2017 · 11:11pm
I'm assuming this is a pisstake given our fantastic record of winning once we've got our heads in front. I'm not sure how Joey accidentally playing someone through on goal under no pressure at all against a side who had zero threat is like one of the top two piling on pressure and getting reward.
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BO bobby1413 11 Dec 2017 · 11:14pm
What? I think it's grossly inaccurate and utter horse sheet to say we sat back on the lead. We had 2-3 chances in second half. The only reason the chances dried up slightly was because Cardiff got a lot better and we got slightly worse. Even then we were still pushing up the pitch