Reading FC Match Report: 2015/2016 Season - Championship
IPSWICH 2 READING 1
Reading: G McCleary (pen 69)
Ipswich: R Fraser (57), B Pitman (89)
Reading sunk to 16th - their lowest placing in the Championship since the very start of the season with yet another league defeat away from home. The Royals looked set to pick up an away point until Ipswich scored with two minutes left to play to take a 2-1 win. Lucas Piazon and Ola John were both forced to sit the whole match on the bench as McDermott opted for Kermorgant, Robson-Kanu and Vydra. Ferdinand and Cooper played in the centre of defence with McShane also left on the bench. Reading's last away win was all the way back in September 2015 as Reading continue to struggle to pick up League points.
Overall Reading were disappointing again after poor, scrappy, first half performances from both teams. Ipswich got off the mark on 57 minutes after getting the ball in from the right, but their lead was short lived. Gareth McCleary was quickly involved after replacing Stephen Quinn on the hour mark and scored Reading's equaliser from the penalty spot on 69 minutes after Hal Robson-Kanu was taken down in the area. Reading looked like they might hang on but Ipswich finished the stronger and after a period of possession it was the home team that secured the win with a straight forward finish.
Post Match Fans' Opinion
Steve_Upper_West
We did not look good tonight, plenty of drive from Williams and Vydra but we just could not keep hold of the ball.
Norwood had a poor game as did Cooper - time to bring back McShane. Hal huffed and puffed but was surprisingly (given his recent performances) muscled off the ball more than once. Kermy was dreadful although to be fair was probably not playing in his best position.
Best chance came with about 15 minutes to go when McCleary got away down the right wing cut into the box but could not decide whether to shoot or try and slot the ball through to Vydra and ended up 'passing' the ball to their keeper.
The weather did not help but there was just about zero atmosphere in the ground - glad to get back in the car and put the heating on, until the diversion !
Extended-Phenotype
Ipswich a reasonable opponent, can't expect to just win here but they were poor last night and there for the taking.
But we just have no drive, no ambition and no hunger in the first halves of these football matches. It's all very well celebrating the fact we can come from behind and get back into games, but I want to see us not have to go behind in the first place.
Subs once again turn Reading's performance around. Surely we have to start seeing this as more than a coincidence and set ourselves up properly from the start, no more favourites, no more cold shoulders, just pick the best starting 11 and give us something worth watching for the remaining games.
CountryRoyal
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different outcomes.
Also there were various comments in the match thread like "it's not the end of the world, sometimes you lose games", which is all well and good except it's not sometimes, it's very oxf*rd frequently. We lose too often and win too little. Slippery slide down the table continues. Don't think this team has it in them to string 2 good performances together, I suspect we will be hard pushed to improve on our current position.
genome
Actually, lately we have stopped losing regularly which is a change for the better, losing 2 out of the last 8 as opposed to 6 out of 7 beforehand. We're just not winning enough yet - as I said last night, only 3 wins in 18 matches, which is awful.
Last night was a very "loseable" game, but we're going to have to start picking up wins in these home games coming up. I'm holding out hope for a miracle, but I fear the play-offs are now out of reach, it's about the cup and just finishing as high as possible.
CountryRoyal
Actually, lately we have stopped losing regularly which is a change for the better, losing 2 out of the last 8 as opposed to 6 out of 7 beforehand. We're just not winning enough yet - as I said last night, only 3 wins in 18 matches, which is awful.
Last night was a very "loseable" game, but we're going to have to start picking up wins in these home games coming up. I'm holding out hope for a miracle, but I fear the play-offs are now out of reach, it's about the cup and just finishing as high as possible.
In the league it's 4 out of 8.
Steve_Upper_West
Well it certainly was not 4-3-3 I could not work out where Kermy was playing, seemed to be out on the left wing, perhaps it was supposed to be 4-4-2 but it looked more like 4-5-1 to me but what do I know .....no need to answer that
Just found out that Ipswich have won ALL 16 of their last Tuesday night games at home........ if I had known about that run in advance I might well have given last night a miss !
This Championship game took place 3215 days ago in the 2015/2016 season.