Liverpool 2-1 Reading
By: Prederick | March 15th, 2008
We lost. And honestly, i’m not that disappointed.
This game was the early match on FSC today, which meant nearly waking up the neighbors cheering when Marek Matejovsky’s early strike flew in. I guarantee you, run that play 10,000 more times, and it never goes in again, and just flies over the bar time and time again. An absolute peach of a goal, that you can see here, along with those other two that screwed everything up.
It was nice to be leading Liverpool today, and for the first 10-15 minutes or so, there were brief flashes when you honestly wondered if maybe, just maybe, Reading could take three points. Of course, when Shane Long missed an absolutely golden opportunity to play in John Oster by punting the ball well ahead of the onrushing player and screwing up a chance to put Reading up 2-0. As we all know, when you’re playing the Big Four, you have to take every opportunity you can, so less than two minutes later, Javier Mascherano laces one in from 20 yards and everything started to go against us.
Liverpool are the better team, no doubt, but I’m not disappointed, as I said, because the team showed amazing graft and belief today. Even though things did get a bit chippy and petulant (Cisse getting into a heated exchange with Gerrard, although Matejovsky’s anger at a clear dive by Mascherano was warranted), I think a Reading side that can play like that for the rest of the year will stay up, no questions asked. Although Shane Long did make a bit of a nob of himself, flinging his kit to the ground upon being substituted, and getting a stern telling-off from Mr. Coppell, as he should’ve. Shane says it was more about himself and the refs, and given that he was being hounded by center-backs six inches taller than him and still having every free-kick go against him, I’ll take his word for it.
So is there such a thing as a good loss? This is as close as it gets, I think. This means next Saturday will be a blast though. v Birmingham at the Madjeski. Should be fun.
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