How did our old mate Bacuna do? I started watching just before our second, and didn't really notice him.
Quote from: Axl Rose on April 04, 2018, 10:04:10 AMHow did our old mate Bacuna do? I started watching just before our second, and didn't really notice him.rubbish . which proves how did he stay here so long.
One thing I found a bit annoying was the lack of patience from the crowd.It was the polar opposite to Saturday where we recycled possession without a plan. First half we put in a lot of crosses and got the ball moved, at a good tempo, into the wide areas quickly. We played in perhaps too straighter lines and patterns, but we should have been leading. The delivery I felt was consistently too long and we lacked numbers in the box.Second half we had Snoddy come inside more to change the angles, with Grealish getting closer to him and Elmo and I felt we opened them up routinely. Lovely first goal, good that we had the midfield hit the box with the second and Hogan buzzed and harried for the third.Thor gave us so much more mobility and he really did set the pace at which we've played and the result was inevitable; 10 or 11 men, it made no difference to the dominance. It was a smart performance. Good use of the squad and subs. Its a pity we didn't freshen up like that after Wolves.
Happy with the three points but Reading are 'The Mighty Reds YNWA' can see why they have struggled this season.
Weird to think that the same Readin side played us off the park in our third game this season Though at the time we really didn’t have many established partnerships within the side
That we wasted so many crossing opportunities was frustrating, they seeemd to let us have the ball wide and packed the penalty area themselves. With our wingers playing on their ‘weaker’ foot we always checked back before either over hitting the cross or chipping into areas where the defenders were well positioned and ‘set’.In a Reading team as poor as I’ve seen in our time here, I was impressed by Liam Moore, their number 6. His defensive positioning was mostly excellent.
din't Reading thrash us at VP last season with virtually the same side?
Quote from: PeterWithe on April 04, 2018, 07:49:36 AMThat we wasted so many crossing opportunities was frustrating, they seeemd to let us have the ball wide and packed the penalty area themselves. With our wingers playing on their ‘weaker’ foot we always checked back before either over hitting the cross or chipping into areas where the defenders were well positioned and ‘set’.In a Reading team as poor as I’ve seen in our time here, I was impressed by Liam Moore, their number 6. His defensive positioning was mostly excellent.Got there a bit early last night and noticed in the warm up that the midfielders and forward players were doing an exercise which involved getting the ball wide and crossing the ball in early. Thought our crossing was pretty average last night on the whole, with too many hitting the first man or going out of play. Hourihane did put an absolute beauty in for Hogan in the second half though which he headed just over.
Quote from: Axl Rose on April 04, 2018, 10:04:10 AMHow did our old mate Bacuna do? I started watching just before our second, and didn't really notice him.Honestly don't even remember seeing him
Quote from: VinnieChase84 on April 04, 2018, 10:06:20 AMQuote from: Axl Rose on April 04, 2018, 10:04:10 AMHow did our old mate Bacuna do? I started watching just before our second, and didn't really notice him.Honestly don't even remember seeing him Didn't realise he was playing until seeing these posts! Thought he was too busy playing in the Champions' League! ;-)