i thought Murphy got man of the match? - which is obviuosly for the penalty save
Which is highly dubious, as Murphy himself said he had little to do other than that.
I'm not sure what people are seeing with Lukas..he looked very lacklustre compared to his usual performance. He put three headers over the bar, gave the ball away and failed to hold it up. His only great contribution was the run and shot 2nd half, which produced one of 3 or 4 fantastic Federici saves.
For the 2nd home game in a row I thought O'Donovan offered more than either of our starting strikers.
McSheffrey was back to last seasons form under Thorn, and his presence transformed the midfield shape. He is not going to come ever-backwards, and he was constantly finding space "between the lines" and splitting the 2 Reading CB's. Overall the midfield 4 were much more compact, and Hussey in particular made 4 cracking runs and passes to McSheffrey in space. Reading responded by cynically hacking McSheffrey most of the time.
Connor did some decent things 1st half and faded 2nd,getting caught in possession and knocked of the ball too easily, but at least
played the position, which Gael was struggling to do. Bell played the LCM role well, and I think an even average Sammy performance may have given us the edge-but he was very poor, and that undermined the base of the diamond.
