The 46-match season is truly insane. England should add a 4th division to the Football League and cut the existing leagues to 18 or 20. A team in League One has 46 matches in a normal season, plus FA Cup, League Cup, and EFL Trophy. That's crazy.
On The Bluebirds goal yesterday goalscorer drifted behind Miazga's centerback partner and in front of Matt. That goal opens the highlight video. There is also a chance at 1:28 where the man he is marking almost taps in a cross. Miazga may have either thought the keeper had it or was worried about an own goal.
Matt not getting much love from the fans. Check replies to this poll: How would you rank #ReadingFC’s summer signings from best to worst so far? 🇷🇴 George Puscas🇵🇹 Lucas João🏴 Charlie Adam🇧🇷 Rafael Cabral🏴 Michael Morrison🇺🇸 Matt Miazga🏴 Ovie Ejaria🇦🇷 Lucas Boyé🇬🇼 Pelé pic.twitter.com/hcgB6uMEFq— RFC Latest (@RFCLatest) January 26, 2020
It's just all the guys who arrived to Reading in the summer of 2019. Matt usually ranks only above Boyé for the fans in that poll.
It was a mistake to go as early as he did, and he hasn't managed to establish himself at any level consistently. He got paid though, so good for him on that front.
I watched probably 90% of his games with New York. There were fundamental issues with his game (mainly positioning and decision-making) that MLS attackers weren't adept enough to exploit and that he hasn't improved upon significantly enough in Europe. This is what I said in July 2015: I stand by that. The first time he went to a top Euro league to play regularly, he got yellow cards in 5 consecutive matches and never played for Nantes again, so I think I nailed that critique.
They don't all work out. Adams and McKennie seems to be doing quite well. Perhaps the argument is maybe he should have went earlier and spend a year or two in a decent Euro youth academy and then graduate up o into the senior team.
The loan army thing very rarely works out. Yes, he got a big pay day from Chelsea, but never having consistency and being tossed around from to team makes it alomst impossible for anyone to excel. In a different circumstance, Miazga's potential is a very good Championship player that can maybe find himself on a low level premier league side (similar to Ream). The constant loan crap is going to prevent him from acheiving that. Now this injury.... man that sucks.
Fully agreed. I think the decision to go to Euro was right, however the choice of team was wrong. Clubs like Chelsea are not destinations for young and promising talents. They are destinations for established talents. Our young yanks should get their butts over to the BL. That league has been very kind to our yanks.
I still wonder about he not being missed by the fans though. They were happy when he arrived for a second season, and IMO he played well when he did. Yet the coach benched him and the fans are ranking him low. That makes me wonder what happened.
Different coach. They changed coach last season and the new guy tightened up the backline on their charge out of the dropzone, with Matt a key part of that. The same coach reunited the backline in in August, but Reading's season never caught fire. He got fired and the new guy just doesn't rate Matt as highly. Happens all the time
Starts: 🚨 TEAM NEWS 🚨5️⃣ changes from midweek, as the #Royals prepare for Barnsley 🔃@MattMiazga3, @andyrinomhota, @jordanobita11, @MichaelOlise10 and @puski47 all come in to the 1️⃣1️⃣🔵⚪ | #REAvBAR pic.twitter.com/0tOpsZHe6t— Reading FC (@ReadingFC) February 29, 2020
I wonder what happened to their captain, Liam Moore, who usually pairs with Morrison for the CB positions. Today he's not in the 18, so he must be injured. Well, Matt is like Wes, he's back ahead of schedule. And winning.
Skipper Liam Moore misses out with illness🔙 But Matt Miazga is back from injury and starts! 💪⬇️ READ MORE ⬇️https://t.co/A4FbkYmMsh— Reading FC (@ReadingFC) February 29, 2020 The replies to that tweet really rip into Moore.