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Pre-Season Underway With Win At Watford
08 July 2024
By Hob Nob Anyone?
Reading have started their preparations for the new 2024/2025 League One campaign with a 2-0 away victory in a pre-season match against Watford, played behind closed doors at their training ground. Reading played two full sets of players with a full switch of the team at half time with the score 0-0. Adrian Akande, who recently signed a new contract, and Jayden Wareham scored Reading's goals on 64 and 72 minutes.
Players featured: Pereira, Button, Ahmed, Abrefa, Dean, Mbengue, Kanu, Bindon, Wing, Elliott, Dorsett, Ryan, Rushesha, Senga, Savage, Knibbs, Ehibhatiomhan, Akande, Camara, Azeez, Wareham, Garcia, Tuma.
Reading's pre-season friendlies continue with the visit of Millwall, also to be played on a training pitch behind closed doors, on Friday 19 July. Tickets are available for all of the following four pre-season fixtures with Reading travelling to Woking and Cardiff City. The Select Car Leasing stadium will be used for the visits of QPR and Hull City.
Fri 19 July: Millwall (H)
Tue 23 July: Woking (A)
Sat 27 July: QPR (H)
Wed 31 July: Cardiffy City (A)
Sat 3 August: Hull City (H)
Discussion On This Story:
Sutekh
Yeah, saw that. Cheers anyway.
The side their local media expected was something like:
Jonathan Bond; Porteous, Hoedt, Pollock; Grieves, Kone, Kayembe, Baah; Massiah-Edwards, Doumbia, Bayo
Can't find anything anywhere to confirm, the Watford OS just gives the score and nowt else about the game. Meanwhile the Reading OS still has the match listed but no result, let alone teams.
Stranded
Obviously not your fault, but it's ridiculous we have to rely on hearsay and rumour to see how the squad is playing in pre-season
I don't think it is too much to ask that the club mention that a) we played and b) the score.
Depends on the reasoning behind it being under the radar - i.e. we are playing players who may be about to sign and don't want it being known or Ipswich want to keep the game quiet for some reason - or it was very last minute or didn't actually happen.
Royalwaster
Obviously not your fault, but it's ridiculous we have to rely on hearsay and rumour to see how the squad is playing in pre-season
I don't think it is too much to ask that the club mention that a) we played and b) the score.
Depends on the reasoning behind it being under the radar - i.e. we are playing players who may be about to sign and don't want it being known or Ipswich want to keep the game quiet for some reason - or it was very last minute or didn't actually happen.
Yes I think this is the reason - we have players on pre-contract terms ...
MouldyRoyal
Depends on the reasoning behind it being under the radar - i.e. we are playing players who may be about to sign and don't want it being known or Ipswich want to keep the game quiet for some reason - or it was very last minute or didn't actually happen.
Yes I think this is the reason - we have players on pre-contract terms ...
That's fine (and also cool) but they could at least mention that a game occurred?
Clyde1998
Looking at this, whilst the individual matches are pretty dull from a fan point of view (aside from Woking), it's a very good set of friendlies for the first team to have. Regardless of the results, I think playing five Championship sides is a good pre-season test for any League One side ahead of the league season. We have a much more settled side compared to last season, so pre-season should actually be worth something when developing team cohesion and trying out different tactics.
Sutekh
Looking at this, whilst the individual matches are pretty dull from a fan point of view (aside from Woking), it's a very good set of friendlies for the first team to have. Regardless of the results, I think playing five Championship sides is a good pre-season test for any League One side ahead of the league season. We have a much more settled side compared to last season, so pre-season should actually be worth something when developing team cohesion and trying out different tactics.
Believe the Woking game can be touted as "the battle of clubs with useless owners".
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