Reading FC Match Report: 2024/2025 Season - League One
READING 2 CHARLTON 0
Reading: C Savage (66), S Smith (76)
Charlton: --
Post Match Fans' Opinion
ILoveMoonPig
» 31 Aug 2024 21:10
I always think that when a team has their 15 minute spell of dominating and really pushing hard to score and they don't, it seems to really demoralise and fatigue them, which is what it felt like happened.
I notice as soon as they went 2 down, they took off the quick players, felt like they were choosing to basically forfeit the game to rest their faster players for the next match.
Thought our back line looked strong and well organised today. Second half, both teams playing neat, tidy football in the middle, that was refreshing, in this league.
Royal_jimmy
» 31 Aug 2024 21:42
Pereira is ok, wouldn't say he's amazing and has mistakes in him but considering he wasn't signed as our number one he's done a decent job between the sticks and has certainly improved. He's removed the need for a new goalkeeper which is only great for us as we keep costs down. I'd even say if we could I'd get rid of Button. CBC is good backup for this league.
I'd like to see him improve his physicality as a keeper and work on penalties particularly as he never gets near a pen.
The Cap
» 01 Sep 2024 00:20
TiagoIlori
» 01 Sep 2024 08:06
Couhig probably wouldn’t be able to support the club the way Dai initially did, but with a scouting network like ours, the club has the potential to be back to being what it once was.
South Coast Royal
» 01 Sep 2024 10:25
Charlton let us play in the first half and it was a pleasure to watch but we didn't, for all the possession create anything.
In the second half Charlton had much more of the ball but we created 3 chances and scored from 2 of them after far less possession than in the first half.
Well played Perreira,for all our good work it could still have been 2-2 but for his brilliant saves.
As with the Wigan game, a warm day and much promise of our ground becoming a fortress again-long may it continue but we will have to toughen up a bit for away games if we are going to make an impression at the higher end of the table.
2 downers from yesterday, Dorsett continues to look out of position (not his fault as he is playing there because there is nobody else and we don't want a right-footer there)and Kelvin didn't do much, otherwise top performances all round.
WestYorksRoyal
» 01 Sep 2024 11:45
We were doing better at the back end of last season. I wonder how many are staying away out of frustration that Dai is still our owner. Get the takeover done and continue our decent start and we can be pushing 15k home fans most weeks (so 16k - 17k) overall depending upon away attendance.
Snowflake Royal
» 01 Sep 2024 12:16
We were doing better at the back end of last season. I wonder how many are staying away out of frustration that Dai is still our owner. Get the takeover done and continue our decent start and we can be pushing 15k home fans most weeks (so 16k - 17k) overall depending upon away attendance.
August is never a good month for attendances. Holidays and what not.
Clyde1998
» 01 Sep 2024 14:23
We were doing better at the back end of last season. I wonder how many are staying away out of frustration that Dai is still our owner. Get the takeover done and continue our decent start and we can be pushing 15k home fans most weeks (so 16k - 17k) overall depending upon away attendance.
Seems to have largely revered to our pre-March average (12,110 on Saturdays/Bank Holidays) and that includes Burton and Leyton Orient, which I think both had some kids/schools offer attached to them which boosted the numbers to over 13k.
For the four before Blackpool, we got around 14k home fans - although there was that 'mini-season ticket' that helped things.
There's probably an element of people deciding against going until the takeover happens for certain.
Stranded
» 02 Sep 2024 09:36
One thing you can see is that having the Academy play a very similar way to the first team is bearing fruit - Akande took a couple of games to find the level but you can tell he knows his job already and looks more than capable of filling the Azeez shaped gap we have.
We still need a few more bodies, should the takeover ever happen, just to cover for injuries but there is a definite core there of 15 or 16 players who are capable of competing at the right end of the table.
Match Stats
Full Time: 2-0
Half Time: 0-0
Attendance: 14778
Referee: Thomas Kirk
Teams
Reading: J Pereira, A Mbengue, J Dorsett (K Abrefa, 63), T Bindon (H Dean, 73), M Craig, B Elliott, C Savage, L Wing, S Smith, K Ehibhatiomhan, A Akande (B Tuma, 87)
Charlton:
Bookings / Red Cards
Reading: S Smith, A Mbengue, K Abrefa, H Dean
Charlton: --
League One on 31 August 2024
This League One game took place 40 days ago in the 2024/2025 season.