by Top Flight »
28 Sep 2016 13:35
Lower West Brentford played a formation to nullify us. Concern must be that we are becoming too predictable to play against.
I think what you mean is "Concern must be that we are not that good at the moment"
When we don't win then we wheel out the accusation that we are predictable. Coppell's 106 team was the most predictable Reading team in history, but nobody was able to stop it. Barcelona are predictable but they are also unstoppable.
We can't be worrying about how predictable we are. We have to focus on becoming unstoppable. We just have to get better.
I don't think we were that predictable last night. We had plenty of chances against the Bees, it just wasn't our night. Also, we are not a good team yet. We gave the ball away alot. We were the architect of most of our problems last night gifting Brentford plenty of chances and we didn't play our possession game well enough. Stam was right that we tried to go long too often last night and not take the easy passes like we normally do. Even my little kid noticed that we weren't playing the way we normally do. Usually we pass it around a lot more. Last night we tried to move the ball forward quicker but kept losing it and giving it away with bad passes.
We have made good progress under Stam and things are looking good. But we are not challengers. We just have to stay up this season and have a couple more transfer windows to try and get the players that Stam needs to make us a genuine force next season.