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Sky Bet Championship at Craven Cottage, London
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Really like the look of the team today, some extra legs we've been lacking with StefJo and AK
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Happy New Year. COYW
how did we not score
oh ffs
Good start though; plenty of shots......with a few on target.
Yay... we come to life after going goal down
How is it possible that neither Christie or Reed challenged the player before the cross? That is not tactics or coaching, but just incredibly poor defending.
of course
Ream scores
Shut my mouth!!
Our defense isn't good enough for the high press. We aren't good enough defensively, could be a Reading route today with so many key players out. Hope I'm wrong and Fulham turn it on.
O'Riley on for Reed.
Come on, Matt!
Reed off injured. O´Riley on.
Personally I think stefjo is playing far to high.
We are playing well though, so there's that.
73% possession and 7-1 shots on goal and we are losing 1-0. Sounds about right.
The first 20 minutes they had one shot which went in of course.
Quote from: keithh on January 01, 2020, 03:26:43 PM
The first 20 minutes they had one shot which went in of course.
And the entire piece of possession was a fluke lol
Yes but once again a team can just pass it into our net. That cross should never have come into the box. Week in week out the defence make the same mistakes
Can someone fill me in on why the Reading fans hate Knockaert?
To slow..
Sure, just launch it into Row Z from 35 yards out, that'll work Knockaert
Got to move quicker
Knockaert needs to pick out passes rather than try speculative shots.
Extremely unnecessary tackle by Bryan. Yet another opportunity gifted.
Reading truly are awful. How we're losing is astounding.
Reading beginning to get some possession
Hate to say it but I can't really be bothered with Scott Parker anymore.
The amount of extra games I could have gone to but just can't find the strength knowing it's going to be 90minutes of frustration and the inevitable screw ups
No one marking the scorer in the box - not a lucky goal just bad defending
Quite good half by Fulham, especially first 20. Much, much better than Reading. Think we'll score 3 second half. If our defenders can just try to not gift any more goals, we should be fine because Reading are posing basically no threat whatsoever by themselves.
Cavaleiro for Knockaert second half.
Quote from: Slaphead in Qatar on January 01, 2020, 03:51:40 PM
No one marking the scorer in the box - not a lucky goal just bad defending
It's lucky from Readings perspective. Didn't even have to try. An absolute gift.
Quote from: Sting of the North on January 01, 2020, 03:52:33 PM
Quite good half by Fulham, especially first 20. Much, much better than Reading. Think we'll score 3 second half. If our defenders can just try to not gift any more goals, we should be fine because Reading are posing basically no threat whatsoever by themselves.
Truly is jaw dropping... we've gifted countless goals this season. We must have some of the worst synchronization defensively. The players aren't even bad, they just can't work together well.
Happy New Year, well it isn´t so far!!
Well let's hope for fireworks in the second half. Slow, predictable is not going to win games
Injury after injury is messing with the players understanding of eachother.
Teams don't have to work hard to score against us. Is that a lack of pressing? Concentration? Aggression? It baffles me how simple it is and I'm not tactically savvy enough to understand what we need to change but it drives me mad
0-2. That was woeful from Christie. Beaten far too easily.
Need a rb badly
Poor pass by O'Riley and shambolic defending again, eugh
Game Over!!
Correction, our defensive players are trash.
Quote from: Wingnut on January 01, 2020, 04:07:06 PM
0-2. That was woeful from Christie. Beaten far too easily.
Haha love this, some on here we're saying he was the reason for our up turn in form for the last wins.
Bloody joke of a back line
Trying to think of something positive to say.........
Should have been three there. Well off the pace today.
Laughable
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We have 40 minutes to get 3
Reading are not making us look rubbish, we are doing that ourselves.
I don't think we've had a shot on goal this half
Quote from: keithh on January 01, 2020, 04:16:56 PM
I don't think we've had a shot on goal this half
Have one now, 1-2.
Guy who scored looks like a pub player.
Gwarn Cav!
🕺🕺🕺
its bloody easy when you try
Need 2 more
Well done Cav.
Quote from: Texas White on January 01, 2020, 04:19:46 PM
Guy who scored looks like a pub player.
Providing the pub is the Tap Inn, we don't care.....
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Free header again
This is football, still plenty of time to rescue this game. No Match is a certainty. Our defence and players in defensive areas has to be addressed, our lack of height once again has cost us, this is what the January window is for. It is not going to get any better. Our squad is comparatively small especially in experience. The writing has been on the wall for a considerable amount of time, it will take more than Hector to stop the goals against.
However, we have pulled one back as I speak, so all to play for, let's not write them off yet, but we cannot allow Reading to score again.
Arghh they keep getting chances in the centre of the box
Play advantage ref!!!
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This is a game we should be winning at a canter.
I cant believe how these other teams keep cheating by defending
Shocking inconsistent refereeing.
AK /o\
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get Mitro next to Moore for all corners and free kicks hes a lame horse
Off the bar!
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Only 5 mins added. You get that without all the injuries & time wasting.
Knockaert's given him a sneaky elbow there
Rubbish
Why is it we can never seem to string a run together and when a team is crap, we just gift them a result and play worse.
On the stats we have had more of almost everything except goals....
......in fact just another example of more rubbish.....
We will not be promoted if Parker stays in charge
How did we lose to that poo?
Quote from: grandad on January 01, 2020, 04:51:13 PM
Only 5 mins added. You get that without all the injuries & time wasting.
Should have been 10 minutes, another 3 points dropped, well done Fulham!!!!!!
Been in the Parker camp up until today, we just keep losing silly games.
Nigel Pearson at Watford just proves what a decent manager can do when he gets them playing as a unit.
Quote from: Ordar on January 01, 2020, 04:55:08 PM
We will not be promoted if Parker stays in charge
Don't really see why this is down to Parker. We completely outplayed an in-form Reading, and were very unlucky not to win comfortably. This is down to bad luck and isolated instances of truly crap defending. We were set up, and succeeded in being the far better team.
We woz robbed. So deserved at least a point. I so hate defensive teams that play the ref by cheating & blatant time wasting. Ref didn´t add any time for the injuries & time wasting. Expecting O´Riley & DLT to make an impact due to injuries to key players was too much. They are just not experienced enough.
Another game where their GK made many saves from sure fire chances.