Championship football is back with us again and The Royals got off to a flying start. Joao opened the scoring after seven minutes with a delightful finish from Meite's cross, which I missed as the ifollow system predictably struggled to cope with everyone logging in just before kick-off. After a bright thirty minutes, the Reading striker unfortunately was forced to leave the pitch with a significant looking hamstring injury. Morrison might have extended Reading's lead early in the second half, but was blatantly fouled in the box in the second half. The referee somehow failed to notice the infringement. To round the afternoon off, a stoppage time equaliser from Stoke denied Reading their first win behind closed doors. It’s good to be back!
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Reading Draw In First Game Back As Fans Locked Out
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WE Westwood52 20 Jun 2020 · 5:16pm
Not much change really after four months off.Missed Miazga.Zonal marking why ? IMHO Rafael 7 Little to do really.The really great goalies dominate the box. Gunter 6 Usual service.Very much a mixed bag.Still backs off too much.One terrible cross when totally under no pressure. Richards 6 Nothing much going forward,struggled a bit at times.Very much normal service. Moore 9 Near enough 10 MOM.Obviously kept his levels up during lock down. Morrison 6 Struggled against Vokes.Normal service again. Swift 7 Tired.Not surprising really.Unlucky with the free kick. Ejaria 4 Very disappointing.Right off his game. Olise 7 Very promising,will… More →
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CO CountryRoyal 20 Jun 2020 · 5:21pm
Meite is toilet. Just doesn’t have a footballing brain. Any talks of playoffs is stupid, even if we managed to get in we’d be destroyed by any half decent side.
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RW royalp-we 20 Jun 2020 · 5:22pm
Poor to not see that game out. Negative tactics going 4-5-1 against a team lower than us at home. Stoke had 4 CB’s out there and expected us to take the game to them. Which we did for a while with João driving at them. Puscas lacked service when on, I think he needs a 4-4-2 with out and out wingers when he’s on the pitch. Understand that Bowen may have opted for experience to see the game out In the 84th and brought on McLeary and Adam - the changes unsettled us further though. Would have just liked to see Masika to exploit their slow wing backs. Disappointing but sod it. Reading FC are back!
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JA Jagermesiter1871 20 Jun 2020 · 5:33pm
What like Fulham?
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HO Hound 20 Jun 2020 · 5:34pm
The same Fulham side we beat, Forest side we drew with twice or Preston side we doubled?
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JA Jagermesiter1871 20 Jun 2020 · 5:35pm
Thats probably one of the best performances from Moore I've seen. Thought we looked very good in spells and then had spells where we let Stoke play too much. Olise looks very promising - tried too much on a lot of occasions today but is a real talent. Swift, Rafael, Obita good. Didn't think anyone was poor really. Just switched off at the end, very frustrating. Hope Joao isn't too injured.
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SR Snowflake Royal 20 Jun 2020 · 5:37pm
Cabral - 6 didn't have a lot to do to get a higher score tbf Gunter - 7 occasional Gunter moments but generally decent Richards - 6 fine, bit wobbly in defence not much in attack Moore - 8 top draw for the most part Morro - 7 solid, good fall over foul at least once. Swift - 7 so close, in and out the game Ejaria - 6 decent, some lovely inter play at times but only patchy and didn't deliver Olise - 8 just a joy to watch. Sometimes flashy, sometimes simple. Still a bit naive and weak at times, but some of our best moments came through him. Always looking to produce Meite - 7 always a threat and unsettled teams. He's not pretty but… More →
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SI Simmops 20 Jun 2020 · 5:46pm
Didn't watch it but I'll just say +1 to what Ian Royal says as he is normally right on the team board (not so much AE :wink:)
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HO Hound 20 Jun 2020 · 5:52pm
Tbh I’d go pretty much with all he says in that post.
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FR Franconian Royal 20 Jun 2020 · 5:56pm
Watched until the 75th Minute. We looked good. Didn’t see either of the goals. I hope Joao isn’t injured, hopefully it was cramp. Looked really sad when he came off. If we could see out games, then we’d be in with a higher position. If we play some slick footie against Derby, we could win. Agree with comments that we need wingers when puscas is on.
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WI windermereROYAL 20 Jun 2020 · 6:16pm
Dont think he would have had an ice pack for cramp, and his reaction after he went off tells us all we need to know, certainly his hammy again.
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RJ Royal_jimmy 20 Jun 2020 · 6:30pm
I still can't believe we didn't win that. Should have really been 2 or 3 up before the end, that's how much we were on top in the game. Maybe without Joao's injury we would have done. Thought we were solid and Stoke hardly troubled us at all until the end when we went to sleep and got sucker punched. Very frustrating when we should have won that game today. It does reinforce the reality though. Our squad lacks quality in a few areas and we'd have no chance in the playoffs anyway. We need to try and address those weaknesses in the summer with whatever limited transfer kitty that we do get. We really do lack quality up front to… More →