MATCH REPORT: 2006/2007 Season
12 November 2006: FA PREMIER LEAGUE
READING 3 TOTTENHAM 1
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goals
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Reading: Shorey 38, Sidwell 45, Doyle 79.
Tottenham: Keane 24 pen. |
Half Time: 2-1 Attendance: 24,110
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teams
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Reading:
Hahnemann, Murty, Sonko, Ingimarsson, Shorey, Little (Gunnarsson 85), Sidwell, Harper, Hunt (Oster 80), Doyle, Ki-Hyeon (Lita 75).
Subs Not Used: Federici, Bikey.
Tottenham: Robinson, Young-Pyo Lee (Defoe 68), King, Dawson, Assou-Ekotto, Lennon, Zokora (Huddlestone 68), Jenas, Ghaly, Keane, Berbatov. Subs Not Used: Cerny, Murphy, Ziegler. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
bookings
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Reading: Ki-Hyeon.
Tottenham: Jenas. Ref: R Styles (Hampshire). |
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report
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Reading came from behind to record a thoroughly deserved fifth Premiership victory against Tottenham - in front of another full house and a record attendance. After having lost four league games on the trot it was vital to take something from this game, but we feared the worst after going a goal behind mid-way through the first half. The Royals showed typical Reading-under-Coppell courage and determination to fight back and go ahead before the break, before adding another to notch up our first top tier victory by more than just the single goal margin. This was an impressive Reading performance all round as we showed a return to form after some disappointingly straight forward recent defeats. It was clearer than even that we'd missed Murty after he made his return from injury at full back and put in a superb performance. It was back to performances from last season with Glen Little fully back to his old self, tormenting the defence and swinging in some great crosses. In midfield, Sidwell played like a man possessed running around all over the place chasing the ball - clearly trying to put in the kind of performances that will tie up a new contract with the club. Those three players stood out but there were excellent showings across the whole side.
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FANS' POST MATCH OPINION
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Brilliant match and Brilliant performance. Fantastic to see Little back to his old self... repeating the type of performance
that gave us the unbelivable outcome from last season. Murty was outstanding. Sidwell a giant. Fully deserved the result.
We made Spurs look very ordinary. Here's a quote from the BBC report: "Despite having lost their previous four Premiership games,
Reading showed wonderful character to beat a side that for the opening 38 minutes of this match had completely outplayed them".
Correct about the character - being completely outplayed?? - must have been watching a different game.
How fitting that a record attendance at the Madejski saw another tremendous performance as the mighty Royals picked up their
fifth win in the premiership by coming from behind and beating a very poor Spurs side. Spurs fans are similar to the Reading
fans in their long term suffering, but we happening to be witnessing the birth of a new generation of Reading Football Club
and now many of us will now start believing we're here to stay in the promised land. After a run of almost impossible fixtures
we've emerged the other side with points and a wonderful mid table position with nearly a third of the season gone. A great
trademark team performance yesterday from all but Murty and Little shone out like beacons. Murty had a storming game and leads
by example and linking up with Glenda in front of him we saw the combination that terrorised championship teams last season,
let's just hope they both remain injury free. Sidwell and Harper worked their socks off and again we start to imagine life
without Sidwell, surely he can see he's got the chance to establish himself as a top premiership player by playing every
game for us rather than languishing on some galactic johnny foreigner bench as a substitute. Sign Sidders and become a legend mate.
Doyle had a great game as did Shorey capped by a wonderful goal. Hunt looked way out of depth and the fragility of the squad
was clear for all to see but we came through with flying colours and pride. Spurs defending was a joke and with
their superstars swaggering about thinking all they had to do was turn up, they soon came down to earth with a bump!
Great day great result, now the real test starts with our games before Christmas, seven games, four at home, who could ask
for any better xmas present than nine or more points. We're doing very very well so far, the foundation has been laid, let's
hope we can build on it.
...... URZ !!!
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