by Tony Le Mesmer »
30 Jan 2011 15:11
floyd__streete Looked a stonewall pen to me, seen it again since. The guy beats Ingi all ends up and goes over Ingi's flailng leg. Pen.
Poor, poor performance in a dreadful game of football and we're really fortunate to be in the draw today. We seemed to get dragged down into a physical, long ball fest and we had precious little quality to raise our head above the parapet of mediocrity on display. Thankfully, we do have some genuine quality in McAnuff who produced our one decent cross of the game and Long in this form won't waste a chance like that, bundled home and we're through. Some really lame performers for Reading; Karacan gives the ball away like it is going out of fashion, Church poses absolutely no threat in front of goal these days sadly and HRK probably wouldn't get in the Stevenage team on that evidence yesterday. Mills had a marginally improved performance on his recent low standards, although he was on the backfoot again for their goal. Fair play to Reading - we played poorly but McD's side always seems to have this resilience.
C'mon Floyd, cant agree with much of that.
Mills recent poor standards? Him and Pearce have been our best players in our recent run. Can't believe ive just said that about Pearce!
Never, ever was it a pen. I thought it was from my great vantage point in row b smack behind the goal but replays show it was a clear dive. No contact at all.
And i thought it was a good performance which we were clearly the better team for 80 of the 90 mins. Short of not being clinical enough at 1 0 it was a very professional performance in which we restricted them to 3 chances the whole game, all in a short spell.
It wasnt the best of games, but thats because our tactics and attitude were spot on for a game like this.
Church however is going backwards quicker than an Italian on the frontline. He doesnt look in the best frame of mind to me, but in the last year or so hes lost his dad and his joined at the hip mate Gylfi has moved on, could be a factor.