MATCHWATCH : Peterborough United (a)

[Sutekh]

Phew.

Table still ridiculously bunched.

Port Vale look detached, andDoncaster and Rotherham are on terrible runs. Who will be the fourth?

Yes, I am still looking behind us.

Esp. as Reading have failed to beat both at home during those runs.

[WestYorksRoyal]

Wasn’t really following this as was out but sounds like a good/lucky point. Tbh we’ve not played great last 3 games and got 7/9

We just don’t have the players to hold the ball up and release pressure on tbe defence in these kind of games. My biggest issue with the current squad. Need a new striker or two who can do just that

That front 4 that started - seriously so so weak physically. Nothing on the bench to improve it. Have to change it

We don't have a good team really. We have an excellent GK and an excellent finisher up front, plus some old school CBs and some decent CMs who are just a bit samey and don't complement each other's strengths and weaknesses.

We're simply not capable of putting in a pressing high energy performance like Peterborough did tonight.

But LR has us performing in flashes and grinding out points. He's doing enough to earn himself a few transfer windows and show what he can really do with the right players.

[LUX]

Phew.

Table still ridiculously bunched.

Port Vale look detached, and Doncaster and Rotherham are on terrible runs. Who will be the fourth?

Yes, I am still looking behind us.

We`re 10th ya big kid.

Three points from the relegation zone.

[windermereROYAL]

Phew.

Table still ridiculously bunched.

Port Vale look detached, and Doncaster and Rotherham are on terrible runs. Who will be the fourth?

Yes, I am still looking behind us.

We`re 10th ya big kid.

Three points from the relegation zone.

And 11 places.

[LUX]

That’s, in effect, exactly what I wrote. Bunched.

[MR. CYNICAL]

Obviously not many of our team have played at the hotbed of football that Peterborough is.

[Orion1871]

Referee

Alex Chilowicz

Oh ffs. It's the shit American ref who makes the English refs look like Collina.

And once again he was oxf*rd atrocious.

[morganb]

Clung on there. Terrible management to think standing off and sitting deep for 50 minutes would yield anything other than conceding. Extra moronic considering how weak Peterborough looked in defence, particularly their sketchy keeper - I had him down for making more clangers in the second half, but he was rarely forced into contact with the ball.

Not sure what formation we were playing by the end, or why/where all those subs were made. Baffling stuff.

Thought the crowd put more pressure on their keeper in the first half than the players did in the second

[Sutekh]

Obviously not many of our team have played at the hotbed of football that Peterborough is.

So I presume Reading will be buying back ex-players in the January window, be dangerous to buy players who haven’t played at the SCL/Mad Stad otherwise.

[Hound]

Wasn’t really following this as was out but sounds like a good/lucky point. Tbh we’ve not played great last 3 games and got 7/9

We just don’t have the players to hold the ball up and release pressure on tbe defence in these kind of games. My biggest issue with the current squad. Need a new striker or two who can do just that

That front 4 that started - seriously so so weak physically. Nothing on the bench to improve it. Have to change it

We don't have a good team really. We have an excellent GK and an excellent finisher up front, plus some old school CBs and some decent CMs who are just a bit samey and don't complement each other's strengths and weaknesses.

We're simply not capable of putting in a pressing high energy performance like Peterborough did tonight.

But LR has us performing in flashes and grinding out points. He's doing enough to earn himself a few transfer windows and show what he can really do with the right players.

Fair summary, esp when we have a few injuries

LR has done very well to get the points he has considering the performances; not sure if it’s luck or judgement, but credit to him

I think that side tonight might be as bad a side as I’ve seen us put out in the league tbh for decades in all honesty

But yet a couple of the right signings, some of these injured players back and it might all be different

[Snowflake Royal]

Wasn’t really following this as was out but sounds like a good/lucky point. Tbh we’ve not played great last 3 games and got 7/9

We just don’t have the players to hold the ball up and release pressure on tbe defence in these kind of games. My biggest issue with the current squad. Need a new striker or two who can do just that

That front 4 that started - seriously so so weak physically. Nothing on the bench to improve it. Have to change it

We don't have a good team really. We have an excellent GK and an excellent finisher up front, plus some old school CBs and some decent CMs who are just a bit samey and don't complement each other's strengths and weaknesses.

We're simply not capable of putting in a pressing high energy performance like Peterborough did tonight.

But LR has us performing in flashes and grinding out points. He's doing enough to earn himself a few transfer windows and show what he can really do with the right players.

Fair summary, esp when we have a few injuries

LR has done very well to get the points he has considering the performances; not sure if it’s luck or judgement, but credit to him

I think that side tonight might be as bad a side as I’ve seen us put out in the league tbh for decades in all honesty

But yet a couple of the right signings, some of these injured players back and it might all be different

I think we've got a better team than that, but with a couple of glaring weaknesses and some really poor coaching.

There's no way we should have to go long half as much as we do. And it's often pointless because the balls are either inaccurate or to someone half the size of the defender. Wing, Savage, Lane, Ritchie, Kyerewaa, RWilliams, Marriott, Ehibhatiomhan, Dorsett, Abrefa, Yiadom etc should all be capable of passing and moving for the ball in the middle and final third, not just looking to play the killer ball or launch it to immediately score every time they get near a touch.

Multiple times today we could have controlled possession and given ourselves a breather and we just thumped it long or ran full pelt forward. It's mindless.

Tbf to him Doyle does actually try this, but he just gets shoved off the ball by a light breeze half the time

[tidus_mi2]

Take the point and move on to the next one, gotta aim to beat Burton on Thursday.

[MR. CYNICAL]

That's exactly been my issue with Richardson's insistence on playing the long ball game.
It's pointless if you are sitting deep as the ball will just come back every time, constantly building the pressure on the defence. Always maintain the best policy when you are winning is to try and keep possession which for some reason we are incapable of doing

[MR. CYNICAL]

Take the point and move on to the next one, gotta aim to beat Burton on Thursday.

How many times have I heard that one?

[Uke]

I refuse to believe he's not capable at this level. He played regularly for a Steve Evans Stevenage team who finished 8th, where he would have needed to do a lot of old school CB play. He looks decent on the ball having come through the Man City academy. That he looked so bad says as much about thr state of the team at the time and I'm open minded about how he'll do this time.

That was two seasons ago, since he's been tried in the Champ and sent back to L1. And that Stevenage side was very ordinary... it was just physical, organised and had good morale.

He's painfully slow. All gangly long uncoordinated limbs and easily muscled off the ball.

He's a terrible partner for O'Connor.

How are we rating him tonight then? Burns and Pereira probably our best players.

BFTG

Agree that El Gato and Burns were our best players tonight, although Gato’s distribution was woeful the saves made up for it.

Wing was remarkably subdued, but the substitutions made no sense at all.

Where was Kelvin?

[windermereROYAL]

Is O`Mahony a season long loan or can we get rid next month? hasn`t worked for him here has it?

[paddy20]

Clung on there. Terrible management to think standing off and sitting deep for 50 minutes would yield anything other than conceding. Extra moronic considering how weak Peterborough looked in defence, particularly their sketchy keeper - I had him down for making more clangers in the second half, but he was rarely forced into contact with the ball.

Not sure what formation we were playing by the end, or why/where all those subs were made. Baffling stuff.

Thought the crowd put more pressure on their keeper in the first half than the players did in the second

Totally agree. This was a game for the taking. Posh looked poor until we sat back and let them play. I think we have been lucky over last 3 games apart from first twenty at Plymouth of course helped by playing against 10 men. Hate these tactics by the new manager. We are better than this.

[info@farwayhideaway]

Only saw the highlights and read the match thread. It seems to me though that for all their dominance, Peterborough really only had one or two clear cut chances. There's a different style being played by Reading under the LR but they are showing resilience, which can be worth a fair few points and few teams do well without it.

[WestYorksRoyal]

Busy festive period, 2 back to back away games, relatively small squad, injuries...and people are moaning about the performance.

Take a good point and move on. Sometimes it's about grinding out results and we have done that.

[Uke]

Clung on there. Terrible management to think standing off and sitting deep for 50 minutes would yield anything other than conceding. Extra moronic considering how weak Peterborough looked in defence, particularly their sketchy keeper - I had him down for making more clangers in the second half, but he was rarely forced into contact with the ball.

Not sure what formation we were playing by the end, or why/where all those subs were made. Baffling stuff.

Thought the crowd put more pressure on their keeper in the first half than the players did in the second

Totally agree. This was a game for the taking. Posh looked poor until we sat back and let them play. I think we have been lucky over last 3 games apart from first twenty at Plymouth of course helped by playing against 10 men. Hate these tactics by the new manager. We are better than this.

Really????

Peterborough pushed all game had most of the possession and we did well to hold out, especially given the ineffectual substitutions we made

https://www.sofascore.com/football/matc ... statistics

Posh win on every stat except the defensive ones!

Dorsett made 9 tackles; more than the entire Peterborough team combined (and at least 6 more than any player on the pitch)