Game Recaps
He’s From Metz? And He Hasn’t Scored Yet? (Wigan 0-0 Reading)
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This is Rudy Gestede. He plays for FC Metz in Ligue 1, and is the latest player to be linked with a possible move to Reading in the summer, £3m is the price. He’s appeared 13 times for Metz so far, hasn’t scored, and no matter how many back issues of [...]
All Good Things… (Newcastle 3-0 Reading)
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In all honesty, this was probably coming. Great as Reading’s form had been up until today, it had largely consisted of home fixtures (three out of five in March were at the Madjeski). And while Newcastle are a side that have redefined “dysfuctional” over the past few years, I remember when they were [...]
Category: Game RecapsReading 0-0 Blackburn
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I, personally, am generally against 0-0 draws. While I understand that one can watch a thrilling 0-0 draw (England’s 0-0 draw with Italy comes to mind), I find that such games are generally the exception, not the rule. For every match like the Netherlands and Italy battling it out 0-0 at Euro 2000, [...]
Category: Game RecapsI Wholly Approve Of This Turn Of Events (Reading 2-1 Birmingham)
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Sorry for the delay between posts people, sometimes work comes at you all at once. This weekend was actually rather interesting on both the top and the bottom of the table, for change of pace as usually matchups between the top four are experiments in ennui tolerance.
After last week’s spirited show against [...]
Category: Game RecapsReading 2-0 Manchester City
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Well, who the hell needs a 1-1 draw?
Hats off to Shane Long and Dave Kitson, who finally showed the kind of lethality infront of net we have to have to stay up. Reading only barely outshot City, lost the time of possession battle by a significant margin, and still came away with [...]
Category: Game RecapsWell Thank God For James Harper
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Big win. Big, big, big win. No, it doesn’t move Reading out of the bottom three, but it stops the rot, and gives us that most necessary of things, hope. We’re not doomed, we’re in a dogfight with five other teams.
Was Reading lucky? Yes, pretty much. Boro were [...]
Category: Game RecapsWell, That Sucked (Reading 1-2 Aston Villa)
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Obviously, it’s not quite time to hit the panic button, but I’d like to think the protective cover has been removed.
Reading were second-best for all of the 90 minutes, and would’ve lost 3-0 if not for Gareth Barry opting to gift the crowd with a game-used ball. Villa clearly were (are) a [...]
Category: Game RecapsA Boring Win (Thank God)
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How dull was the Reading-Derby match this weekend? For a while, I thought even Match of the Day wasn’t going to bother to show highlights. But boring is good, I’ll take boring, coming as it did on the heels of a little 11-goal match you might of heard about.
From what I could glean from MOTD2’s [...]
Category: Game Recaps7 Days After 7 Goals
By: Rob | 1 Comment
So I apologize for not addressing last weekend’s goalfest in a more timely manner; I wasn’t paralyzed by shock at the abysmal performance of our back line and keeper, I was merely busy with dull non-soccer duties. At this point, there’s little left to say…obviously it would’ve been much more fun to blog about had [...]
Liverpool Loss & Portsmouth Preview
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Well, I dillied and dallied my way out of making a timely post about Tuesday’s 2-4 Carling Cup loss to Liverpool, so I’ll keep my thoughts brief. While the obvious media focus was on the Fernando Torres show, I came away reasonably satisfied with Reading’s effort. For one, the fearlessness of last season was back, [...]
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