pommpey
THE FUTURE ... AS IT USED TO BE
- Banned
- #1
A simply tremendous night at Bramall Lane, level with the halcyon days of the Wilder Premier League matches when for a short while, we looked potent and invincible. Tonight's comprehensive dismantling of 'top of the league' Reading must now be making others fancied for the automatics look at our team and fear what they can do. We utterly bossed the game from the kick off and cut them to bits, even squandering a hatful of chances along the way. From front to back and across the ninety minutes there wasn't really a flat spot and uncharacteristically for us after the break, we didn't let Ince's half time bollocking for the Royals give them any resolve. Oh no. We just went on the attack and buried them.
A decent line up with Doyle starting for Fleck/McAtee instantly had great effect. Norwood now seems to have buckets of time to do what he likes to do and both of these were fantastic in being not just strong in the tackle, but clever in their forward development turning defence into attack. It gave Berge so much freedom to link and run at and past Readings defence and enabled McBurnie to terrorise and N'Daiye to create havoc. And when you have Baldock/Anel and RND/Lowe up the flanks, you have a team performance which is relentless and unforgiving, leaving Reading no room to manoeuvre and no place to go, so much so that they had not one shot on goal.
Really glad McBurnie seems to be turning things round and grabbed a goal and that our true goal machine - Mr Ahmedozic is ripping defences apart. illiman again showed fabulous amounts of class to grab a goal and really, we could have had a fucking hatful. It all had its roots in a style of play which is fabulously sexy to watch with every player knowing where the next pass is going because every player knows where three or four options are when they have the ball at their feet. Compare that to this time last year under Slav and it seemed like the players were playing games with strangers. Even the loanees are in on this secret and passes zip about on the deck to deny oppositions any purchase on the game. Sure, there were some shitpants periods when Reading might have scored, but they were snuffed out. The attacking threat and prowess of Joao and Ince featured fleetingly and to no effect and Wes had nowt much to do. In fact, had he had a leaky balloon knot moment in the second half, he could have trotted off to trap four in the home changing room and shot ten litres of liquid clay like a Nagasaki sunset out whilst watching the match on his phone and still trotted out (see what I did there?) and took his place between the sticks feeling less 'bowelly' and bloated.
Foderingham 5/10: Simply because he had nowt to do
Baldock 7.5/10: Enjoying the presence of Anel bombing up inside and freeing him up to get right up on the attack
Ahmedozic 9/10: Great game for him. Real Swiss-Army-Knife of a player. Defends cleanly and aggressively, marauds into midfield and pops up to score a brace of goals. SHOOOT! He did. Straight into the kop
Egan 6.5/10: The weakest of our players tonight and somewhat error prone and fifty-pence headed at times
RND 8/10: Best game so far as LCB. Became the 'trap' in the defensive three and moving in between to intercept and clear, whilst providing an option up in the attacking zone
Lowe 7.5/10: Better game for him and pleasing he is developing, but I feel that the return of Clark/JLT to LCB and RND to LWB may be our strongest hand
Berge 7/10: Effective in bursts. Like my comparator with him Tony Currie, he isn't 'active' all the time but when he does something, it has an impact
Norwood 8/10: Great performance from him. Some committed tackles and interceptions and good range of short and long passes. Linked well and grafted the ninety minutes
Doyle 8.5/10: Tremendous debut with real effect whenever on the ball or moving into space. He is everything Fleck isn't and is exactly what we need in that area of the pitch. Loses half a mark for skying a sitter into the kop
N'Daiye 8.5/10: Another great hour from him where he dug out balls from the feet of opposition players, harried and harassed and basically put the entire Reading team on high alert, capping it with a splendid goal
McBurnie 8.5/10: Another startlingly good outing for him, if still flecked with smaller amounts of flailing and diving. Still, he kept the Reading defence occupied and popped up in the right place for another true striker's goal. Shame he is injured with what was a 'landing' strain on his calf
Khadra 6/10: Plenty of endeavour but didn't get much in the way of supply. Fuck me has he got pace though.
Brewster 5/10: Not given enough chances or time to make an impact and alongside Khadra struggled to fit into any attacking pattern
Basham 7/10: Almost scored with his first header and became involved from the outset if in an unfamiliar. unsuited position of RWB
McAtee 6.5/10: A much better, much more intelligent few minutes for him showing better capability
HJ&SM 10/10: Superb game, well strategized and planned for with solid tactics and a new endeavour which is evident across the park. Play like this and we are run away winners. They just have to make the most of the upcoming tight schedule and WC break to keep us focussed
PS: If you are reading SUTV, sort your fucking sound out you bellends. Sounded like a tiled underpass at times.
pommpey
A decent line up with Doyle starting for Fleck/McAtee instantly had great effect. Norwood now seems to have buckets of time to do what he likes to do and both of these were fantastic in being not just strong in the tackle, but clever in their forward development turning defence into attack. It gave Berge so much freedom to link and run at and past Readings defence and enabled McBurnie to terrorise and N'Daiye to create havoc. And when you have Baldock/Anel and RND/Lowe up the flanks, you have a team performance which is relentless and unforgiving, leaving Reading no room to manoeuvre and no place to go, so much so that they had not one shot on goal.
Really glad McBurnie seems to be turning things round and grabbed a goal and that our true goal machine - Mr Ahmedozic is ripping defences apart. illiman again showed fabulous amounts of class to grab a goal and really, we could have had a fucking hatful. It all had its roots in a style of play which is fabulously sexy to watch with every player knowing where the next pass is going because every player knows where three or four options are when they have the ball at their feet. Compare that to this time last year under Slav and it seemed like the players were playing games with strangers. Even the loanees are in on this secret and passes zip about on the deck to deny oppositions any purchase on the game. Sure, there were some shitpants periods when Reading might have scored, but they were snuffed out. The attacking threat and prowess of Joao and Ince featured fleetingly and to no effect and Wes had nowt much to do. In fact, had he had a leaky balloon knot moment in the second half, he could have trotted off to trap four in the home changing room and shot ten litres of liquid clay like a Nagasaki sunset out whilst watching the match on his phone and still trotted out (see what I did there?) and took his place between the sticks feeling less 'bowelly' and bloated.
Foderingham 5/10: Simply because he had nowt to do
Baldock 7.5/10: Enjoying the presence of Anel bombing up inside and freeing him up to get right up on the attack
Ahmedozic 9/10: Great game for him. Real Swiss-Army-Knife of a player. Defends cleanly and aggressively, marauds into midfield and pops up to score a brace of goals. SHOOOT! He did. Straight into the kop
Egan 6.5/10: The weakest of our players tonight and somewhat error prone and fifty-pence headed at times
RND 8/10: Best game so far as LCB. Became the 'trap' in the defensive three and moving in between to intercept and clear, whilst providing an option up in the attacking zone
Lowe 7.5/10: Better game for him and pleasing he is developing, but I feel that the return of Clark/JLT to LCB and RND to LWB may be our strongest hand
Berge 7/10: Effective in bursts. Like my comparator with him Tony Currie, he isn't 'active' all the time but when he does something, it has an impact
Norwood 8/10: Great performance from him. Some committed tackles and interceptions and good range of short and long passes. Linked well and grafted the ninety minutes
Doyle 8.5/10: Tremendous debut with real effect whenever on the ball or moving into space. He is everything Fleck isn't and is exactly what we need in that area of the pitch. Loses half a mark for skying a sitter into the kop
N'Daiye 8.5/10: Another great hour from him where he dug out balls from the feet of opposition players, harried and harassed and basically put the entire Reading team on high alert, capping it with a splendid goal
McBurnie 8.5/10: Another startlingly good outing for him, if still flecked with smaller amounts of flailing and diving. Still, he kept the Reading defence occupied and popped up in the right place for another true striker's goal. Shame he is injured with what was a 'landing' strain on his calf
Khadra 6/10: Plenty of endeavour but didn't get much in the way of supply. Fuck me has he got pace though.
Brewster 5/10: Not given enough chances or time to make an impact and alongside Khadra struggled to fit into any attacking pattern
Basham 7/10: Almost scored with his first header and became involved from the outset if in an unfamiliar. unsuited position of RWB
McAtee 6.5/10: A much better, much more intelligent few minutes for him showing better capability
HJ&SM 10/10: Superb game, well strategized and planned for with solid tactics and a new endeavour which is evident across the park. Play like this and we are run away winners. They just have to make the most of the upcoming tight schedule and WC break to keep us focussed
PS: If you are reading SUTV, sort your fucking sound out you bellends. Sounded like a tiled underpass at times.
pommpey
