" Reading manager not happy and says "
Sun Apr 05, 2015 8:14 am
Sunday 5th April 2015
" Steve Clarke: 'We should have beaten Cardiff City "
Reading boss Steve Clarke has expressed his belief that his side should have taken all three points from their Championship clash against Cardiff City.
The Royals took an early lead through Pavel Pogrebnyak but spurned several chances to double their advantage at the Madejski Stadium before Conor McAleny struck in the 90th minute to earn Russell Slade's men a point.
Clarke has insisted that his side were fully focused on the Championship, despite their impending FA Cup semi-final clash against Arsenal.
"No, the cup is not on the agenda today," Clarke told Sky Sports News. "I'm just talking about the league. I thought we played well enough to get the three points. It's a game that we should have finished off long before they equalised.
"When you go into the last five minutes and it's only 1-0, you always leave yourselves vulnerable. But it's a point further away from the bottom three so we'll take it and move on to the next game.
"There was a lot of positives today. The team was good. We've said that, from the international break, we've got eight league games left and we've set ourselves a little points tally. I'm not telling you what it is but we're now a point on the way to that tally."
Reading are nine points clear of the relegation zone in 19th place in the Championship, with seven games remaining this season.
" Steve Clarke: 'We should have beaten Cardiff City "
Reading boss Steve Clarke has expressed his belief that his side should have taken all three points from their Championship clash against Cardiff City.
The Royals took an early lead through Pavel Pogrebnyak but spurned several chances to double their advantage at the Madejski Stadium before Conor McAleny struck in the 90th minute to earn Russell Slade's men a point.
Clarke has insisted that his side were fully focused on the Championship, despite their impending FA Cup semi-final clash against Arsenal.
"No, the cup is not on the agenda today," Clarke told Sky Sports News. "I'm just talking about the league. I thought we played well enough to get the three points. It's a game that we should have finished off long before they equalised.
"When you go into the last five minutes and it's only 1-0, you always leave yourselves vulnerable. But it's a point further away from the bottom three so we'll take it and move on to the next game.
"There was a lot of positives today. The team was good. We've said that, from the international break, we've got eight league games left and we've set ourselves a little points tally. I'm not telling you what it is but we're now a point on the way to that tally."
Reading are nine points clear of the relegation zone in 19th place in the Championship, with seven games remaining this season.
Re: " Reading manager not happy and says "
Sun Apr 05, 2015 9:20 am
ca'nt argue with the fact that Reading should have won. Lucky for us they didn't put their chances away.
Re: " Reading manager not happy and says "
Sun Apr 05, 2015 10:54 am
buckleys brewery wrote:ca'nt argue with the fact that Reading should have won. Lucky for us they didn't put their chances away.
If our players were'nt so shot shy'we could have got a few as well.
Re: " Reading manager not happy and says "
Sun Apr 05, 2015 12:47 pm
Another manager bemoaning fact should have beaten us! How many is that now? All of the championship! 
They didnt so tuff if don't put chances away can't complain!
They didnt so tuff if don't put chances away can't complain!
Re: " Reading manager not happy and says "
Mon Apr 06, 2015 7:31 am
buckleys brewery wrote:ca'nt argue with the fact that Reading should have won. Lucky for us they didn't put their chances away.
Reading were the better team but other than the goal they didn't create any clear cut chances. When you are 1 up you always run risk of conceding.
Re: " Reading manager not happy and says "
Mon Apr 06, 2015 10:05 am
Gareth (Wilts) wrote:buckleys brewery wrote:ca'nt argue with the fact that Reading should have won. Lucky for us they didn't put their chances away.
Reading were the better team but other than the goal they didn't create any clear cut chances. When you are 1 up you always run risk of conceding.
Only need to look at stats as well to see why they didn't win?
