Reading v Everton - 12/23/06 - Pre/During/Post Match [R]

[prvev]

Corner flag is broken..

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Howard with a great save..I'd be happy any other week. Crap.

[prvev]

Long for Doyle..

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Stream dead..

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Stream comes back long enough for me to see its almost over..still 2-0.

[aguy2die4]

Stream dead..

nevermind prev, sounds like its better that the stream died. you wont have to watch till the last second of the last min......

to get back one goal will be nice though.....

[prvev]

Probably was better, for my sanity at least. Apparently its over now. 2-0. Crap. Top two teams away now. Goody.

[aguy2die4]

i see you thought of something for your sig.......

[prvev]

Indeed..we need someone able to get a head on those corners other than Sonko.

Barely related note: Lita played decently today.

[aguy2die4]

well, i wont be staying up till the wee hours watching a tape delay of game that i know is a 0-2 loss.

although id be interested to watch the replay of the denied penalty kick.

[aguy2die4]

Indeed..we need someone able to get a head on those corners other than Sonko.

Barely related note: Lita played decently today.

it would have been better if he scored evein if Reading still loss 1-2.

[Katsbox]

Stream comes back long enough for me to see its almost over..still 2-0.

Well, thanks for the link. I got to see about 10-15 minutes before the stream died and probably at the time when Reading were playing their best.

Coppell will have to think about making changes the next run out - the game seemed to change when Lita came on and I think Oster added to the game as well. Unfortunately, there was just too much to do by that point.

Reading will have a couple of tough, tough games coming up, but if they can mentally weather those games, the new year brings the promise of points that are more within reach.

[korean_soccer123]

personally i never believed reading were a side capable of the success they achieved so far, and now i think there luck has ran out. Come on lads? pull it back toghether, shove seol make to midfield take hunt out put lita upfront and when kitson comes back, kevin doyle should be taken off, he's not a good striker i'd rathetr go with lita and kitson

[prvev]

Yes, of course you take off you're leading scorer for someone who hasn't had a goal since game one..which was scored because of a great play by the leading scorer.

Everything else you said is right, a top 5 position was obviously never going to be maintained, but it was fun while it lasted. Before the season, I think all of us take 17th place. We're still well above that.

[RichardL]

Having spent most of yesterday at Salzburg airport sitting out a six hour delay for a flight back to fog-bound England, I thought I might have used up my quota of annoyances for at least one week. But even though the fog has now lifted, a murky gloom replaced it in Berkshire as the second consecutive “winnable” home match proved to be anything but.

With the key players missing catching up with the team like a monster in a dream, Reading carried on the first half pretty much where they left off against Blackburn. It would be perhaps unfair, not to mention time-consuming, to pick out individuals at fault for a first half display more shocking than attaching a car battery to a dripping wet prisoner’s genitals, and without nearly as many laughs.

Not that Everton themselves were fantastic, even if Andy Johnson would break his 14 hour goal drought with the usual kick in the bollocks he saves for Reading, but Reading had too many players performing the same function as a spare wheel on a pogo-stick. Stephen Hunt disappeared with an ease that would have had David McCallum calling for acting tips. Steve Sidwell underlined his desire to stay at Reading by putting on a performance that’d guarantee no bugger would sign him, and persisting with Seol up front is increasingly looking a wilder experiment than the day when Dr Frankenstein received a late night delivery of a set of oversized body-parts – again leaving Doyle more isolated than a fat smelly kid on the first day of school.

That Everton went in a goal up wasn’t a surprise, but perhaps that they still needed the first of a set of early Christmas gifts from the Reading defence to do so was. Firstly Shorey mis-timed a challenge and a run down the right was pulled back for Johnson. He turned, having been given the amount of space that would have allowed him to do so even if towing a small caravan, and fired into the net across Hahnemann at the north end – remarkably still only the third visiting player to do so since he managed the feat with Palace last September. Both side could, and probably should have scored after that. Osman had the best chance which came back of the woodwork, but had looked like the third outstanding 25 yard strike to have beaten Hahnemann in 4 games. A rare moment of good football saw Seol Ki-Hyeon played through on the edge of the area and brought down for what, according the most “unbiased” watchers in the stadium thought was a clear penalty. The watching BBC also apparently thought so to, but the ref, in his first ever premiership match, decided otherwise. Whether David Moyes will call Seol a diver remains to be seen.

Reading played quite brightly for the first minute of the second half, but again decided to get festive and deliver some more Christmas gifts. Possession was lost 35 yards out and the ball was again cut back to a lonely looking McFadden, and with the defence again politely saying “after you old chap, It’s Christmas” he pretty much killed the game.

After that Reading actually looked a lot more lively. Lita came on and looked a man with a point to prove, even if he didn’t necessarily do so. Reading controlled the rest of the half more than an MP’s favourite dominatrix, but Everton’s defence constantly said “bah humbug!” to the season of goodwill with a scrooge-like refusal to give away anything. Reading by contrast were Bob Cratchett, feeding off scraps, but failing to make a meal out of the few crumbs that fell off their table. Lita forced two routine saves from Howard, while Harper lashed over two goods chances with less control than an incontinence sufferer’s bladder after eight pints of Stella. Had one chance gone in it could well have been a very different game, but none did and it wasn’t. At least the next two games are easy.



I really can’t think of anything positive to say today, so here’s some nice pictures from up a mountain near Salzburg instead.
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[Katsbox]

personally i never believed reading were a side capable of the success they achieved so far, and now i think there luck has ran out. Come on lads? pull it back toghether, shove seol make to midfield take hunt out put lita upfront and when kitson comes back, kevin doyle should be taken off, he's not a good striker i'd rathetr go with lita and kitson

Seol's certainly not doing it up front - Coppell taking him off at 54 minutes shows he feels the same. Not sure he gets a start anywhere else right now, however.

[korean_soccer123]

rofl?? kitson didn't get his goal because of doyle's brilliance, it was actually seol who passed his defender and put in a low hard drive which doyle got then mishit right into kitson's path who fired:p .
so i would give the credit to seol not doyle lol

[prvev]

Lita. Lita has one goal in league games. His only others were in the Carling Cup.

[olegunnar]

Anyone who thinks Doyle shouldn't be in the team is clearly not watching the matches. And in my assessment I am completely putting aside his goal scoring record which is near the top of the Premiership.

Simply put in every match that I have been able to see on TV or the internet, Doyle looks like he will be a star in this league in a few years. His workrate is incredible. Soon we won't be able to stop a bigger team from swooping in and signing him. Meanwhile Lita just doesn't look good enough for this division. His first touch puts the ball miles ahead of him.

Right now on course for 17th or above. I think its the perfect time to play Chelsea and Man Utd away. The team is struggling and nobody is expecting any points. So simply playing well in the next two games even if we don't get a result will be huge for the team's confidence.

[korean_soccer123]

rofl lita's goal was serviced by seol 2 rofl, he assisted both kitson and lita's goals, he put in another low cross which the keeper blocked then kevin lashed at it the keeper blocked then lita but it in, once again i give seol the credit not doyle