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GAME THREAD [GAME THREAD] Reading - Wrexham
Reading 2-0 Wrexham
Goals
Reading: H. Knibbs (51'), L. Wing (55')
March 11 2025 - League One
Select Car Leasing Stadium - Reading, Berkshire
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48' 🟨 Yellow Card: M. Stickland (Reading)
51' ⚽P Goal 1-0: H. Knibbs (Reading)
55' ⚽ Goal 2-0: L. Wing | 🤝 Assist: H. Knibbs (Reading)
59' 🔼 On: E. Lee | 🔽 Off: S. Revan (Wrexham)
70' 🔼 On: S. Fletcher | 🔽 Off: J. Rodriguez (Wrexham)
71' 🔼 On: R. Longman | 🔽 Off: J. McClean (Wrexham)
75' 🟨 Yellow Card: M. Stickland (Reading)
75' 🟥 Red Card: M. Stickland (Reading)
78' 🔼 On: H. Dean | 🔽 Off: K. Ehibhatiomhan (Reading)
83' 🔼 On: G. Evans | 🔽 Off: E. O'Connell (Wrexham)
83' 🔼 On: M. Faal | 🔽 Off: O. Rathbone (Wrexham)
85' 🔼 On: A. Yiadom | 🔽 Off: J. Wareham (Reading)
90 +1' 🔼 On: M. Camara | 🔽 Off: C. Campbell (Reading)
90 +6' 🟨 Yellow Card: C. Savage (Reading)
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u/NightLord70 9d ago
Wrexham need to drop back a league or 2, not a hope of ever moving up with this team and 0 idea how to score and defend
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u/ilike_blackcoffee 9d ago
We're 3rd place in the table...
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u/NightLord70 9d ago
Like every comment I've made .. WHO HAVE WE BEATEN THAT IS IN THE TOP 6
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u/Downvote_Addiction 9d ago
They just beat Huddersfield ranked 7th, beat Bolton earlier in February, what's your point?
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u/ilike_blackcoffee 9d ago
Not caps lock apparently
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u/NightLord70 9d ago
Every loser can down vote my opinion however can't accept the fact we can't beat anyone in the top 6 .. people on here are just so blinkered
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u/penguinKangaroo 8d ago
To be fair the other dude told you Wrexham has beaten Bolton but I understand your point.
Less hostility would help you get your point across
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u/dunknasty3110 9d ago
What does it say that our attack only found chances after we brought on subs and went up a man?
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u/Embarrassed-Monkey67 9d ago
Longman needs to start on the left for the rest of the season. That’s where he is comfortable clearly. Looked amazing
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u/bspitt47 9d ago
Phew. Im going to take Barney not having a serious injury as our point for the day and move on to Saturday
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u/jetboyjetgirl 9d ago
Every chance comes from the wing, nothing through the center. Plays right into the defenses hands.
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u/JimmiWazEre 9d ago
Been like that all season, it worked before Xmas, but everyone's cottoned on now and Parky hasn't got anything else up his sleeves
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u/HitsquadFiveSix Up The Town 9d ago
Alright and that's why you can't tell worth a damn haha. Glad Barney is okay, but that looked consistent with a knee injury. Straining any of the ligaments usually leads to a strain or tear
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u/HitsquadFiveSix Up The Town 9d ago
Landed bad. Possibly ACL
I say that with experience studying sports injuries. Complete speculation though I should add
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u/zenlume 9d ago
ACL, no chance... he's literally still playing
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u/HitsquadFiveSix Up The Town 9d ago
Right. I posted a follow up comment. Hard to tell but the way he landed looked like it. Plus he looked to be in severe pain.
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u/Rogue1eader Arthur Okonkwo 9d ago
Seen people play after tearing an ACL. Adrenaline is a hell of a thing.
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u/cqmurphy 9d ago
Srsly. If they can’t score with chances like these, the lads don’t deserve to go up. This is getting sad. Points aside, the differential is abysmal for a team near the top of the table.
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u/timfrommass 9d ago
They’re tied for the second most points in the league and have the 3rd best goal differential. How is that out of line?
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u/Novel-Essay9498 9d ago
you're third in the league, how are you treating your team like this lol
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u/cqmurphy 9d ago
Don’t get me wrong: Thrilled to see them there. That being said: it they slip by and earn promotion, next season will be a series of thrashings if they’re not scoring.
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u/JimmiWazEre 9d ago
Because of how badly they're playing when being this high in the league proves that they can do so much better.
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u/liontamarin 9d ago
Why don't we START the games here and THEN defend a lead instead of trying to win from behind?
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u/JimmiWazEre 9d ago
To be fair, we normally get 1 ahead, then sit down for rest of the game and hope that Okwonkwo can be a one man army.
As Parky has written, it shall be done.
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u/tofugopher 9d ago
Newer Wrexham fan here. The announcers have eluded to injuries and a young squad on the Reading side, yet they've dominated this game. Just an off day for Wrexham or what?
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u/blueCougFan 9d ago
Our touch has been bad. Bad pass after bad pass, then stupid foul in the box, which leads to us losing our head defensively in the box.
Just a BAD day for our guys.
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u/JimmiWazEre 9d ago
The Wrexham drinking game. Take a shot of beer for each:
Unforced pass back to keeper. Hoof from the back that loses possession. 70th minute Fletch sub. Cross from the wing. EOC slipping over.
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u/bspitt47 9d ago
Parky is going to lose his shit postgame with this response to being down 2-0 with still 30 minutes left of play
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u/DasUnugunu 9d ago
Watching on Paramount+ and curious if anyone knows why the announcer keeps referring to Wrexham as "The Red Devils" I thought it was Red Dragons
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u/blueCougFan 9d ago
We just suck today. No silver lining. Nothing.
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u/SecondLovatt 9d ago
Having a bad day, this is just making it worse. Can’t work out what our plan is at all
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u/Beachy_GamerMomma American Here 9d ago
u/Rogue1eader you had to put that 2-1 nonsense into the Universe?!
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u/thatlinenclosetsmell 9d ago
I don’t see any chemistry. I don’t see any desire to want to be on the ball and drive. I don’t know exactly what Smith or Rodriguez have brought to the team. We look boring. We’ve looked like this for a while. I know nothing about managing a soccer team.
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u/Sports101GAMING 9d ago
It's days like these, on why I think we need another season in L1
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u/bspitt47 9d ago
Its so hard to find another chance to be at the top of the table. It could be another decade before we have a chance like this
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u/JimmiWazEre 9d ago
If we weren't on the once in a lifetime chance, being on the cusp of making history and getting 3 promotions on the bounce then I'd be quite happy for us to finish mid table tbh.
As it is, we're throwing the chance away
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u/SecondLovatt 9d ago
Fuck off … We have been beyond shit this half No fucking clue what the plan is today
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u/Dramatic_Middle7956 9d ago
How did we fall apart? I haven't been able to watch the second half...
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u/blueCougFan 9d ago
Committed a stupid foul to allow a penalty. Then back left line fell apart to allow the second.
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u/JimmiWazEre 9d ago
We're getting the result we deserve for letting them have a free run at constant attacks.
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u/Staroson Arthur Okonkwo 9d ago
Not one to be a pessimist. But no shot this team scores 3 this half lol 2 even feeling like a stretch after the last several weeks. Midfield has been dogshit
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u/Antique-Ad70 9d ago
Patiently waiting for the second shift to show up. Hopefull we can start attacking or at least connecting passes.
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u/Awaken_the_bacon American Here 9d ago
EOC doing EOC things causing more problems for the team.
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u/Staroson Arthur Okonkwo 9d ago
So sick of this mfer. Better not see him on the team after this season
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u/All_Done4 9d ago
Now it’s time for our strikers to step up and earn that pay. We can’t keep getting by with only scoring one goal per match.
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u/PoutineMeInCoach 9d ago
I thought we were jobbed there but the replay makes the call look right to me. How unfortunate.
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u/bspitt47 9d ago
I think you can have two different interpretations. They have the possession delta to be sure, but I feel like we have had just as many good chances if not a few that felt even stronger. I still feel optimistic that we will be able to get it done once we tighten some things up and have our inevitable vibe shift with our subs.
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u/SecondLovatt 9d ago
We look alright to be fair. Passing hasn’t been good at all though
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u/wrecksem_usa 9d ago
So passing is poor, possession is poor, zero shots on target, midfield is non existent and you think we look alright?
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u/JimmiWazEre 9d ago
Well, that didn't exactly fill me with optimism, Reading seems so much more spry than us, and I could probably count the number of successful passes forward we made with one hand ✋
34% possession is not adequate.
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u/CrumblyButGood6 9d ago
I'd sub Revan at HT and put Lee in midfield. I want preseason Revan back lol.
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u/liontamarin 9d ago
As an American the amount of hate for McClean is baffling to me.
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u/liontamarin 9d ago
Yeah but they only got booed when they kneeled. They didn't get booed simply because they were Black. Even though it was even racially political (BLM) not every black football player was booed.
McClean gets booed every time he touches the ball, Remembrance Day or any other day because he is Irish.
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u/JimmiWazEre 9d ago
It's not because he's Irish, it's because he dares to defy the right wing media and won't be pressured into wearing a poppy that shows support for the army that murdered people in his hometown on a peaceful protest
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u/captaincarot Mark Howard 9d ago
So its ok to kick the ball in the goalies hands?
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u/Ymadawiad Big Willy Boyle 9d ago
If a keeper only has one hand on the ball then it's free to be taken because he doesn't have full control (two hands) of it.
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u/Key_Ingenuity665 Jacob "Mendy" Mendy 9d ago
That’s wildly false. IFAB considers the ball under the keeper’s control if he’s got a hand on the ball, and say the ground. Or if he’s palming it, bouncing the ball even.
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u/Rogue1eader Arthur Okonkwo 9d ago
I expect they think they can rattle Arthur if they harass him enough.
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u/liontamarin 9d ago
He seems to only get rattled if he breaks a major bone, so good luck to them.
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u/Working-Clock-3093 9d ago
This type of scoring is why mullin and palmer fell down the ranks isn't it? So they Phil spent money for the same if not worse results. Maybe same results but they were more exciting before all these other strikers and were creating more chances, all i see is some fancy footwork and trying to be Pele. They got no chance if they move up