Liverpool Loss & Portsmouth Preview
By: Rob | September 28th, 2007
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, as that scoreline would indicate. Maybe it was just the reserves trying to make the most of their time on the pitch, but it was good to see a positive effort from the Royals, even if that might not be the soundest policy against a Big Four caliber team (hence 2-4). Also good to see some goals, even if they were of the usual Reading set-piece pinball variety. Nice one from my boy Bobby Convey that reminded me more than a little of my favorite goal ever personally witnessed, Benny Feilhaber’s Gold Cup winner this summer. Convey, in fact, was definitely Reading man of the match, looking very dangerous throughout and showing his full skill for the first time since last year’s injury battle.
…so, of course, he’s hurt again. Fuck.
Worrisome was the backline play, who resembled blue-stripey cones as Benayoun and Torres went zooming past to score. However, I’ll take solace in the fact that it was our second-choice defense, and that the return of Ibrahima Sonko grows ever nigh.
He won’t be back by this weekend though, which find us travelling to Portsmouth for a very tough match. Pompey seem like the same under-the-radar danger as last season, and they took four points from Reading last year, so it will be tough to keep our league momentum up. Let’s hope the strong effort at midweek propels the first-team back to a goal-scoring mood.
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