Tolo IF 0-4 Reading FC (4 goals for Long!)

[NR_Royal]

http://www.readingfc.co.uk/page/NewsDet ... 56,00.html

Tolo IF 0
Reading 4 (Long 26, 40, 74, 89)

Reading (4-3-3): Hamer; Karacan, Armstrong, Bikey, Pearce (c) (Gunnarsson HT); Matejovsky, Sigurdsson, Mooney; Henry, Bignall (Hunt 61), Long
Subs: Andersen, Rosenior, Bertrand, Davies, Tabb, Robson-Kanu, Kebe, Church
Booked: Karacan (foul 76)

Attendance: 412

So should he be our first choice striker then? Or will he fail to cut it at this level?

[AllRoyals]

should have scored 7 at least...

Mooney, Bignall and Henry the least convincing.

Long decent and Sigurd, Pearce and Jem(out of position mind you) the most impressive efforts.

[SLAMMED]

Great, I foresee some more rambling by Snowball.

[cmonurz]

Great, I foresee some more rambling by Snowball.

This must be killing him, as in another thread, he has repeatedly explained why performances in these friendlies mean very little.

[SLAMMED]

Poor old snowball doesn't know whether to say its meaningless or fantastic.

[Snowball]

strange that

[cmonurz]

iirc Lita got 4 in a pre-season game last season.

[rg6royal]

good to see long scoring

[Silver Fox]

No matter how meaningless friendlies might be goalscoring is habit forming so this can only be good, unless you're a Long-hating tool of course

[stuart sweden]

The attendance was 603..

Long did well but should of mabye scored 7-8 in the game.
We played "nice" 4-3-3 passing football and we had alot of time on the ball however Tölö were useless so the real test will be against Forest when we´ll get next to no time to pass it around.
Henry was good at getting past his man but his final ball or shot was often pretty poor. Bignall was good down the left and surprised me with his technique which was better than Henry´s..
Man of the match for me was Matejovsky, his passing is excellent.....

We shouldnt read too much into these games though as its good to meet such poor opposition when your trying to learn a new playing style.

[Sarah Star]

According to the EP

Tolo, who have lost to both QPR and Leeds United in the past, weren’t too embarrassed by the result and Royals’ performance just lacked the fluidity of their 8-0 win over JIF.

http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/footb ... _tolo_if_0

[Ian Royal]

No matter how meaningless friendlies might be goalscoring is habit forming so this can only be good, unless you're a Long-hating tool of course

Careful, that's essentially exactly what I said after the last sweden game. Although your version is much more concise and well phrased. Plus about Long not Church/HRK etc.

I then had Hoop Blah go on at me for a page or so about how I was wrong.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

The attendance was 603..

Long did well but should of mabye scored 7-8 in the game.
We played "nice" 4-3-3 passing football and we had alot of time on the ball however Tölö were useless so the real test will be against Forest when we´ll get next to no time to pass it around..

the cliche may be that we shouldn't read too much into individual results, but trends coming out of those meaningless games are a bit more telling.

In all the games so far the story has been of nice football, completely dominating possession, but completely failing to turn that superiority into the amount of clear chances and goals it merits.

Carry that into the league season and we are really going to find it hard. Teams that struggle to score rarely do well, and those 25-1 relegation odds with William Hills are starting to look very tempting.

[Snowball]

The attendance was 603..

Long did well but should of mabye scored 7-8 in the game.
We played "nice" 4-3-3 passing football and we had alot of time on the ball however Tölö were useless so the real test will be against Forest when we´ll get next to no time to pass it around.
Henry was good at getting past his man but his final ball or shot was often pretty poor. Bignall was good down the left and surprised me with his technique which was better than Henry´s..
Man of the match for me was Matejovsky, his passing is excellent.....

We shouldnt read too much into these games though as its good to meet such poor opposition when your trying to learn a new playing style.

If he had 8 chances and scored 4 = 50% conversion

If he had 7 chances and scored 4 = 56% conversion

Doyle needed 74 chances for 18 goals last season, slightly less than 25% conversion

As I've said before, almost-meaningless friendlies, but bagging 4 in a game from 7/8 chances shows a guy who is probably hitting a hot streak

[thewoodis]

http://royalreadingfc.blogspot.com/ - give this a read.

[Royal Rother]

I've saved the link - keep it up.

[SLAMMED]

The attendance was 603..

Long did well but should of mabye scored 7-8 in the game.
We played "nice" 4-3-3 passing football and we had alot of time on the ball however Tölö were useless so the real test will be against Forest when we´ll get next to no time to pass it around.
Henry was good at getting past his man but his final ball or shot was often pretty poor. Bignall was good down the left and surprised me with his technique which was better than Henry´s..
Man of the match for me was Matejovsky, his passing is excellent.....

We shouldnt read too much into these games though as its good to meet such poor opposition when your trying to learn a new playing style.

If he had 8 chances and scored 4 = 50% conversion

If he had 7 chances and scored 4 = 56% conversion

Doyle needed 74 chances for 18 goals last season, slightly less than 25% conversion

As I've said before, almost-meaningless friendlies, but bagging 4 in a game from 7/8 chances shows a guy who is probably hitting a hot streak

I knew you wouldn''t resist.

[Ian Royal]

One quick thing.

Should have scored 7/8 =/= had 7/8 chances.

[Snowball]

Did Long have SEVENTEEN chances to "only" score four goals (Doyle's hit-rate)

How many does Church or Kanu or Henry miss?

Good strikers MISS goals. All that matters is they score enough, and one every 45 minutes is 4 times "enough"





Let's see what happens when the real games start

[Exiled Royal]

Tölö were very pleased with their preformance considering four first teamers couldnt play and that their THREE 15 year olds ( especially Emil Jonasson who played his first ever game at left-back ) gave good accounts of theselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!