MATCH SUMMARY : Reading Royals (20 February 2016)

<p>A friendly today and the first time we've played at RMS for 2.5 months.<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />We knew Reading Royals were a good footballing team and they did not<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />disappoint. Playing with the wind, Phantoms were completely outplayed<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />first half. Reading were more clever, more switched on and playing the<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />better possession football. Their number 9 was causing big problems in<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />the first 10 minutes and they took a deserved lead after our passive<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />defending was finally exposed. So many chances to be compact and then<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />to clear the danger but not to be..<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />Second half was a more even game but I'd still argue that Reading were<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />looking the more capable, whereas our play was based on endeavour and<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />scrappiness. Great physical effort from the boys but our technical<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />play was very limited.<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />No goals scored second half and final score was 1-0.<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />It was a surprisingly indisciplined performance from Phantoms.