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Reading's dominating season seems to
be stretching to all levels of their
football. They saw off our reserves
2-0 this afternoon and now need just
one more win to clinch the
Combination League title.
Joe
Gallen named a very young looking
starting line up, and Georges
Santos, for the short trip along the
M4 and was delighted with the
performance, even if the result
didn't go our way.
Jake
Cole was in goal with Santos playing
alongside under 18's regulars Karl
Yelland, Jonathan Munday and Andrew
Howell in the back four. Ugo Ukah
found himself in a midfield slot for
this one with Stefan Bailey, Phil
Cousins and Matthew Hislop all
included in a defensive midfield
selection. Scott Donnelly provided
the attacking guile with Luke
Townsend heading the R's front line.
Rangers had an early scare when
Reading's Pierre Joseph-Dubois had
one ruled out for offside, this was
sandwiched between two efforts that
The Royals could have done better
with. First Simon Church found
himself clear of the R's defence but
dragged his shot wide of Cole's goal
and then Curtis Osano got on the end
of a corner but also saw his shot go
past the post.
Reading continued to be profligate
in front of goal throughout the half
and as the break approached
Joseph-Dubois found himself clear of
the defence once again and will be
disappointed with his poor effort at
a finish.
However as the second half got going
Reading became much more clinical, a
nice overlapping run down the left
hand side left former Bristol City
full back Scott Golbourne with the
opportunity to cross to Jem Karacan
who made no mistake with his header
to put Reading in front. It took
Reading the rest of the half to
double their lead, as the final
seconds ticked away Liam Marum saw
his shot pushed away by Cole but
Simon Cox was on hand to finish it
off and make the final score 2-0.
Regardless of the result Joe Gallen
was full of praise for his young
stars with Scott Donnelly and Stefan
Bailey particularly standing out in
front of the watching Gary Waddock.
You never know, they might even get
more than two minutes off the bench
on Saturday now.
Rangers' reserves play their final
game of the season next Tuesday
afternoon when we face Millwall at
Loftus Road, kick off for that one
is 2pm. |
