Reading vs Tottenham- 11/12/06 - Pre/During/Post Match {r}

[prvev]

Into the second minute of extra time..

[prvev]

Into the third minute of extra time..

[prvev]

Marcus kicks the crap out of it, headed out by a Spurs player. Reading throw..almost done...corner now..its over! 3-1, Reading! Beautiful.

[whipsmart13]

Into the second minute of extra time..


Game...my Man-of-the-match is Little...two assists today and re-establishing himself as a key cog to the offensive machine.

[whipsmart13]

Marcus kicks the crap out of it, headed out by a Spurs player. Reading throw..almost done...corner now..its over! 3-1, Reading! Beautiful.

This was a GREAT rebound win today...taking 3pts from the Spurs after the rough patch we've experienced is a very nice boost ...especially with the winable stretch of games that we have until January.

[roxbury]

An importand won.

3 goal 3 point

what else you need:) .

time for drink;) .


iwa

[Katsbox]

Yeah, the 3 goals were very good to see. Having Murty in the back four again was huge, and I was so stoked to see us playing attacking football rather than letting the other team walk it into our final third.

A fit Convey in this side would bring the team up another notch, as I think Hunt was just a bit rash with a lot of his passes and decisions. When Oster came in, granted we were 3-1 up with 10 minutes left :):):), play on the left side just fell into place.

Great win Reading!!

[mschofield]

sixteen and counting. very nice.

[T_Rock]

Not bad at all!

[RichardL]

42 days ago, a kangaroo in the Australian outback shared an intimate encounter with its partner, and in the time since the resulting embryo has grown and completed a full gestation period and just climbed into its mother’s pouch. In exactly the same time Reading had managed to lose 5 games in a row, had only seen worries grow, but at least today managed to do some climbing of their own, above Tottenham in the premiership table.

And they did it the hard way too, coming back from a goal down during a not too inspiring early phase which made claims of a Reading comeback more surprising than the claim that Kangaroos have three vaginas. But come back they did, in a style that was as surprising as a marsupials anatomy, to claim what in the end was a comfortable victory.

After starting with a 5-4-1 at Liverpool the previous week, Coppell surprised a few people by naming Seol as a 5th midfielder. Playing a role that was more floating than drunk person’s teeth, he proved hard to mark, but also proved hard to pick out in a formation that didn’t seem to be quite working.

There was always a danger that after the run of hard games, Spurs would be underestimated. While they didn’t look as dangerous as the other big guns we’d faced recently, they still had enough about them to thread balls in that would punish any slack play. It was one such pass that lead to Sonko conceding a penalty and Keane giving Spurs the lead. Given how things had gone recently, and that getting 50/50 decisions out of the officials was harder than trying to milk a bull, heads could have dropped faster than those of guillotined traitors, but today was one of those days when the players showed enough spirit to give Smirnoff a run for their money.

Too often though, the first half perspiration wasn’t matched by inspiration. Glen Little was again Reading’s most productive player, but Robinson in the Spurs goal was still less busy than a condom kiosk in the Vatican, as while Reading may at times get into enough interesting positions to suffice for an extra chapter in the Karma Sutra, the amount of actual penetration is too often at a level that would be suitable for children’s TV.

Part of the problem is a reluctance to shoot from distance, but Nicky Shorey fired in the kind of shot that he doesn’t do every week and surprised everyone, including perhaps Robinson in the Spurs goal, to level the scores. Reading hadn’t equalised in a premiership match since the opening day, and just as then, Sidwell fired in a goal just before the break to completely change the game from how it had looked a few minutes earlier. This time a good ball from a corner was played in low and he was as deadly as a mafia hit-man from point-blank range.

Maybe Spurs would feel the half-time score harsher than sandpaper wet-wipes. They did after all have a few more chances, and despite Murty’s return adding a bit of solidity at the back, there were still one of two scares when Hahnemann, who at times appears to neglect to call at a rate that would shame a serial one-night-stander, and the clearance was rushed when it didn’t need to be. Overall though, he had decent, but not spectacular game.

But on to the second half. I expected Spurs to be fired up and really have a go. But Spurs are somewhat like a night out with a lap-dancer, nice enough visually, but you seem to get less than you expect. That suited Reading fine, and Sidwell in particular was planting a flag in the middle of the pitch and claiming the territory as his own. As the game wore on spurs changed their team around to try and get back into it. They still looked dangerous with the odd through ball, but they had larger gaps at the back than a surgical gown and Reading really ought to have done more on the break than they did, but it was a break that did seal the points. Doyle was put through with a defender tracking him goal-side, but despite again running himself into the ground as almost a lone striker, he found the energy and composure to slot the ball across Robinson, cooler than a cucumber in liquid nitrogen.

Game over, at least so thought 1500 of the 2000 Spurs fans who took this as their queue to make their way back to the car parks. They almost missed a 4th for Reading, with Lita only denied by the foot of the post. They also missed what ought to have been a 2nd for Spurs, with Berbatov hitting a shot more in danger of hitting planes crossing from Heathrow than the net, straight after Defoe had hit a post. It kind of summed up Spurs’ day. They have a lot of talent, but in the second half in particular, they had less heart than a ring doughnut and didn’t look they believed they could equalise. Nobody at Reading is complaining, that’s for sure. When you are playing better teams you need character, and there were more characters than in the Japanese alphabet out there today for Reading, in a win where everyone played their part.

[Shark]

Robinson in the Spurs goal was still less busy than a condom kiosk in the Vatican...

They still looked dangerous with the odd through ball, but they had larger gaps at the back than a surgical gown...

good to hear from you again.

ROTFLMAO!!!!!