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Performance Worthy Of A Win At QPR
15 October 2016
By Hob Nob Anyone?
It is always good to pick up a point away from home but Reading's performance today was worthy of a win. Having fallen behind to a well taken goal from Wszolek, Reading equalised through Williams seven minutes later and went on to dominate possession and create more clear openings than the home side. Although the finishing is not there yet, there were times, especially in the second half, when Reading put Rangers under considerable pressure with the some slick and precise passing. Williams stood out, not simply for the equaliser, but for the way he probed with purposeful running and well-timed, accurate passes.
The Loftus Road pitch is probably smaller than many in the league making the new Reading style of play slightly more difficult. It made it easier for Rangers to deny the Royals back four time and space to play the ball out of defence in to midfield. Al Habsi was forced to play the ball long and wide more often than he would have liked and possession was not retained as easily as it might have been.
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bobby1413
Special mention to the sombrero guy - was fairly entertaining.
Sh*t atmosphere - even away fans didn't get going
Also don't she's trying to get served at half time. Sent down at 38 mins and just watched bar man serve everyone but me.
Thank you to the guy/fan who actually noticed this and said "after you" when served. It was unbelievably frustrating and annoying
Top Flight
Al Habsi - 8 - no mistakes. Although, I thought he could have done better for the goal. I'll have to wait until I see it again on the highlights. You can't really see the goal from the upper tier.
Gunter - 7 - did his job. Nothing spectacular
Blackett - 6 - Same as above.
Van den Berg - 7 - same as usual. May have been at fault for the goal. I hardly saw the goal anyway in the mele. Will have to judge later
Moore - 7 - Did well enough
Swift - 7 - Was great for England. Not quite as good for us. But then we don't have Tammy Abrahams making great runs to be played in.
Evans - 7 - sprayed it around nicely
Williams - 8 - worked hard, was dynamic in the centre of the park
Beerens - 7 - Did well, but with only Slow Yann up front, it can be a thankless task trying to make sh*t happen in the opposition third.
McCleary - 8 - did well on the wing. I think he scored, but missed it in the distracting environment of the school end upper. Showed some great wing play but an incompetent linesman kept raising his flag to put a stop to his well timed darting runs.
Kermie - 6 - needs a partner, his talent is wasted on his own up front.
bobby1413
Gunter: 8/10 - Pretty good I thought, the best of the back four
Blackett: - 6/10 - Not great, he looked off pace and not good enough
Moore: 7/10 - did his job but nothing more
Beerens: 6/10 - average, nowt special
Van den berg: 7/10 - average
Williams: 8/10 one of the best on the pitch - very good
Swift: 7/10 - average, struggled to really get involved
Kemit: 8/10 - good, at times he looked completely out paced but he put the most effort in I think out of all the squad
Royality creeps In
The fakies were dire and the poorest team I have seen this season. Even worse than Preston. Makes you wonder where that away performance at Brentford manifested itself from.
We dominated and Williams was at the heart of everything.
Thank You and Goodnight.
Oh Barman another pint Please!
Fezza
Blackett - kept making mistakes, as he did in the tinpot cup against Pompey. Seriously drag backs in your own area? Just clear the oxford thing! Not sure when Jordan sh@t in Jaap's porridge!
Joey - Not a centre back - though with McShane and Cooper (and unable to play a passing game) out we're fairly light on options.
Beerens - cockblocked G Mac by running into his space an killing a move.
Still much better than last season!
genome
It's good that we know what problems we have to address too - whereas last season we had problems all over the place. If we can start scoring more goals then we are set.
el_presidente
I think it is credit to how well the side has progressed that we seemed to cope fairly easily with this significant change in strategy. I assume this was purely down to QPR's approach, but it will be interesting to see on Tuesday if we revert to type or whether Stam has decided that getting it forward more quickly is now required.
East Grinstead Royal
It was my 18y.o. son's first visit to Loftus Road. Bit of an eye-opener for him - an away game 80s style. Police everywhere as we approached the ground; a cage in the street for away fans to be frisked; primitive catering facilities with nowhere to queue; totally inadequate seating; 10 minute queue to get out at full time. Proper football.
NewCorkSeth
Interesting to see how one player is marked as 6 with a comment of "average" and two other players are marked 7 with a comment of "average". Ant chance of explaining your marking system please?
This is why ! proposed moving towards marks out of 100.. Or that average should be considered 5.
bcubed
Interesting to see how one player is marked as 6 with a comment of "average" and two other players are marked 7 with a comment of "average". Ant chance of explaining your marking system please?
I'm guessing the answer might be along the lines of:
its not that scientific mate
or
what do you want, a different description for every single numerical rating?!
or
are you a teacher?!
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