It'Sanogo For Charlton As Rakels Seals Reading Victory

27 February 2016
By Alex Bower

Playing against a side who find themselves bottom of the Championship, it should have been fairly straightforward for a Reading side who are seemingly getting their season back on track. Reading's away form was a concern prior to the game, with the Royals not winning a game away in the Championship since September but the 3000 away fans were optimistic of a positive result.

No one would have expected what was to come, however, with a stoppage time goal from substitute Deniss Rakels winning the game for Reading in a seven goal thriller. A hat-trick for Yaya Sanogo evened the score for the home side but it was not enough for Charlton to secure a much needed point.
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Playing against a side who find themselves bottom of the Championship, it should have been fairly straightforward for a Reading side who are seemingly getting their season back on track. Reading's away form was a concern prior to the game, with the Royals not winning a game away in the Championship since September but the 3000 away fans were optimistic of a positive result.
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No one would have expected what was to come, however, with a stoppage time goal from substitute Deniss Rakels winning the game for Reading in a seven goal thriller. A hat-trick for Yaya Sanogo evened the score for the home side but it was not enough for Charlton to secure a much needed point.
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Discussion On This Story:

  PistolPete

» 27 Feb 2016 17:36

Man for man, much better.
Hello John was too good for their right back, Kemit with a few moments of class. But, somehow, we needed a scrappy set piece to win it?!
Great atmosphere in the away end, pints need to be lined up Much quicker at half time ... ;)
It is what it is, We move on.

  Royal Ginger

» 27 Feb 2016 18:38

Reading 4-3 Sonogo. Can't remember any of the rest of their team do anything of merit.
Through all the years I'd somehow not made it to the Valley before. I will not be rushing back. Awful shed of an away end with nothing like enough bar space, tiny seats and what has to be close to the worst view of the goal line in the football league.
No one stood out as brilliant, Kermorgant got his goals and an assist but faded, HRK worked hard, Obita was pretty good. No counter to Sanogo though, absolutely dominant against us.
Ola John...the sublime and the ridiculous. Dances round their defense one minute, falls over on the ball for no reason the next. Gave away the ball cheaply for their first.
Can't fault McDermott (other than maybe bringing on a clearly out of sorts Williams). The problem at the back was as simple as Sanogo being better than our defenders. He threw Rackels on at the end rather than settling again and hats off, it worked.
Obviously low on quality all round, but 7 goal thriller for a fiver? Don't mind if I do.

  marlowuk

» 27 Feb 2016 18:52

The highlights are already on the Sky Sports website and it looked a very open game!! Kermie's second goal was a peach and their third looked like it rebounded luckily off Sanogo into the net.

  Royal Ginger

» 27 Feb 2016 19:00

The goal that never was after his hand ball...we'd have been seeing that for some time.
Ref has a good game btw, Lino to our left was awful though.

  Jagermesiter1871

» 27 Feb 2016 19:06

Was going to ask what was up with the disallowed goal? Would have been up there with goal of the season.
From the highlights Ola John looked to be sensational.

  Royal Ginger

» 27 Feb 2016 19:39


For all the complaining (which I was a part of) it looked a pretty slam dunk hand ball. Sure it hit him, but his hands were up around his chest/neck.

  sandman

» 27 Feb 2016 19:45

Well that went from the sublime to the ridiculous and back to the sublime. Good to see the old Reading spirit back after capitulating to 3-3 not so good to see the return of the Fulham style defensive collapse.
I know I keep going on about it but Gunter was dreadful. To allow the amount of crosses into the box that he does is absolutely inexcusable. They spotted he was the weak link and every attack they had was targeted down his side.
Difficult to judge man of the match as the second half undid all the work done in the first but I'd probably say John nabbed it despite his mistake for the first goal.

  Irvinchangeyaname

» 27 Feb 2016 20:13


Really? I thought, for the number of fans we had there, we were embarrassingly quiet.

  sandman

» 27 Feb 2016 20:17


Really? I thought, for the number of fans we had there, we were embarrassingly quiet.

Good to see fans from the opposition come on here. How did the protest go?

  Royal Ginger

» 27 Feb 2016 20:23


Really? I thought, for the number of fans we had there, we were embarrassingly quiet.

Good to see fans from the opposition come on here. How did the protest go?
Maybe he was from the quieter left side of the stand. #shotsfired #rightsidearmy

  PieEater

» 27 Feb 2016 20:23

Good start to the game, good atmosphere but then somehow we lost it in the second half.
Not sure I can add too much analysis as I've really drunk too much beer, but it was good away win that should have been comfortable but somehow we had to work for it.

  Meoci71

» 27 Feb 2016 20:25

Was a very strange game for a high scorer, long periods of dross followed by a couple of mad spells in both halves!
Defences looked like being breached continuously when either team had good spells, thought al-habsi had another good game, despite conceding three.
Bit worrying to see Norwood having poor games against two of worst teams of the league this week, we really need him in these sort of games to control the midfield and provide ammunition to the wingers and kermit more often than he has been....
Anyway, onwards and upwards!

  Royal Ginger

» 27 Feb 2016 20:33

Kermorgant spent too much time out wide.

  Snowball

» 27 Feb 2016 20:38



Agreed. If he had been more central he might have scored.
oh

  AthleticoSpizz

» 27 Feb 2016 20:51

Brilliant, excellent.....what more do you realistically want?

  Royal_jimmy

» 27 Feb 2016 20:58

Amazing 1st half. Poor 2nd half but we won so who cares!

  3points

» 27 Feb 2016 21:20


Really? I thought, for the number of fans we had there, we were embarrassingly quiet.
Sounded pretty loud in the first half in the radio, albeit much quieter in the second.

  Royal Ginger

» 27 Feb 2016 22:10



Agreed. If he had been more central he might have scored.
oh

Obviously I'm very happy when he scored. Perhaps I'm wrong and the fact that he got two goals means that he spent the full 90 minutes in the middle, but I (clearly wrongly) noted that he was often working the wing leaving no-one in the middle for a cross, resulting in a load of short passes and losing the ball. The bloke behind me wrongly noticed the same thing.
Realistically, he's a striker who scored two goals, excellent job, very happy, just thought If he'd been in the box a bit more he could have had his hat-trick+ and the game could have been killed off by 70 minutes.
I may be wrong, I admit that, it was just my subjective view.

  AthleticoSpizz

» 27 Feb 2016 22:26

Lol @ Ady Williams on BBCB pre-game saying that Kerms is past it
Great signing for the now time

  bobby1413

» 27 Feb 2016 22:31

Ady Williams is also the guy who said last week:
"I noticed the ball boys have made a return this week. Every time the ball went out, one would go and get the ball and throw it back in. Just like the old days"
And
"The west Brom fans in the ... What stand is that?" ... Tim says "south" ... "Yes the west Brom fans in the south stand"

  Royal Ginger

» 27 Feb 2016 22:34

I tend to agree. First striker we've had since Long who looks even half competent at the lone striker roll. He's got a couple of years in him yet, no major repeat injuries and while he's not going to break speed records he's certainly no slouch.

  Jagermesiter1871

» 27 Feb 2016 22:46

Yeah Ady's never been the brightest. Not quite sure how he of all ex-players 'made it' as a pundit.

  AthleticoSpizz

» 27 Feb 2016 22:50

Why have a pundit who was neither born ...nor brought up in Barkshyre?
Love Ady....but he does spought sh1t

  Lower West

» 27 Feb 2016 23:40

Thought Quinn had a good game. Needs a partner that plays with the same level of energy, intensity and movement. In the current formation Norwood isn't that player.

  Ian Royal

» 28 Feb 2016 00:06


Really? I thought, for the number of fans we had there, we were embarrassingly quiet. Came over loud and clear on the radio

  Ian Royal

» 28 Feb 2016 01:02

Just seen the highlights. Could easily have been 7-7 based on that.

Al-Habsi seems the difference.
Not handball for the disallowed goal for me. Charlton should never have conceded the fourth. Woeful defending. That's why they're going down. Sanogo way too good for them (and us).

  Stockport Royal

» 28 Feb 2016 01:11

Those saying ola john was at fault for their first goal?
He was tight on the line and hector fizzed it in to him, had two players on him, loose control but give the guy a break, thought he was one of our better players today.
at 3-3 thought i could see a horrific loss coming, denis, my new hero!

  CountryRoyal

» 28 Feb 2016 02:35

We so almost managed to fcuk that up.
Thought we were decent going forward but our defending was borderline retarded. More sloppy than a post curry beeriod.
Whilst acknowledging our calamity defending I thought Charlton looked better than bottom and notions of "it's only Charlton" can be disregarded, as away from home, we are as bad as they come.
Happy Kermorgant finally got his goals. Standouts were John (good) and Cooper (shit). Well done to McDermott for almost oxf*rd it up with bizzare substitutions, although at 3-3 when Denis came on I jokingly said it was all part of his master plan to bring on Rakels and get the winner.
BUT WHO CARES ABOUT ANY OF THAT BECAUSE WE WON AWAY!!!!!

  PistolPete

» 28 Feb 2016 08:29



Feel guilty saying this, but there was not a single save Al Habsi made that was anything above what a keeper should do, and twice (?) he could have done better.

  Royal Rother

» 28 Feb 2016 08:43

There's plenty to like about him but Ady Williams is surely auditioning for TalkSport.
And I can't say much worse than that.
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