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Barclays Premiership - Match 36 |
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Season 2006-2007 |
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READING |
1 v 0 |
NEWCASTLE UNITED |
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Dave Kitson 51 |
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Date: |
Tuesday 1st may 2007 |
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Venue: |
Madejski Stadium |
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Kick Off: |
8:00pm (GMT) |
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Australian
Live TV:
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Foxsports 3 |
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Attendance: |
24,109
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Referee: |
M Riley (W
Yorkshire) |
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Reading:
Hahnemann, De la Cruz, Ingimarsson, Duberry, Shorey, Ki-Hyeon,
Gunnarsson (Harper 90), Oster (Bikey 90), Hunt, Doyle, Kitson (Long 89)
Subs Not Used: Federici, Halford |
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Booked:
Hunt, Kitson |
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Newcastle:
Harper, Solano, Bramble, Taylor, Carr, Milner, Emre (N'Zogbia 60), Dyer,
Sibierski (Ameobi 54), Owen, Martins.
Subs Not Used:
Srnicek, Onyewu, Carroll |
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Booked:
None |
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Newcastle manager Glenn Roeder
on speculation about his future said:
"Down the years Newcastle have always been an easy target for
speculation - it happened with Graeme Souness, Bobby Robson and now me.
It's the same with the players - any time a player wants to leave a club
people speculate that he wants to join Newcastle United. That's the
animal and that's how it is. I certainly don't lose one second's sleep
over it. I've been through too many things in my life to worry about
speculation. I am not worried at all. But I'm not surprised by things
like this." |
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Match Report: |
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Michael Owen makes a scoring return but
sadly he was offside. |
After over a year
in charge of Newcastle United(including as caretaker) Glenn Roeder
finally got to put the name of Michael Owen down in his starting XI,
with the Madejski Stadium Reading, the venue that saw the long awaited
comeback of record signing Owen. With Shola Ameobi also being named
amongst the substitutes, there were plenty of positives to be had before
the game started.
Owen started the game looking amazingly sharp and after 60 seconds he
nearly got on the end of a James Milner cross but 7 minutes into the
game Owen did find the back of the net, for what looked like a dream
comeback. A neat through ball on the edge of the box by Obafemi Martins
played in Owen, who coolly slotted the ball into the back of the net as
if he’d never been away. Sadly for Owen and us, it was ruled offside and
the replays showed he was offside but only just(on another day that goal
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We started the game quite brightly playing a 4-3-3 formation, which saw
Antoine Sibierski in an advanced centre midfield role, with Kieron Dyer,
Emre and James Milner making up the 3 other midfield berths. It looked
as though we had come to attack Reading(shame we didn’t try that in
Holland) as the action was fast paced and open, with us creating some
half decent chances and dominating possession. Milner saw a long range
dipping effort just go over the bar and Martins mistimed a free header
from a corner, when he should have hit the target but the later part of
the half saw both teams cancel each other out and the score stayed 0-0
at half time.
The 2nd half wasn’t so good however, with Emre, Dyer and
Bramble all falling back into mistake mode. At times Emre couldn’t find
a Black & White shirt and Dyer just went missing in a deep midfield
role. It was Dyer who cheaply gave away the ball that lead to the attack
that Reading scored from. A cross into the box found an unmarked Kitson
at the back post and he smashed home a volley. Sibierski was forced off
after injuring his wrist in a scrambled effort to block Kitson’s effort.
With the news he was heading to hospital for x-rays on a suspected
broken arm, it looks like hihs season is over.
The goal did mean we sparked ourselves into some form of life, as Shola
Ameobi(who’d come on for Sibierski) headed a glorious chance straight at
the keeper. Another night and a couple of games under his belt, you’d
fancy he would have buried it. However, wasteful finishing seemed the
order of the night as Martins also made a mess of a free header as we
sprung Reading's offside trap again.
Overall you’d have to say it was a disjointed performance, which did
promise a lot more than we got out of the game. Michael Owen playing 90
minutes was a major bonus, so too the return of Shola Ameobi and throw
in some good defending by Steven Taylor, meant there were some
positives. However, the worrying form of Kieron Dyer, the terrible Emre,
the awkward Sibierski in midfield, the poor crossing and the return of
defensive mistakes(yes of course by Bramble) meant Roeder will again
have learnt a lot more about which players he needs to ship out this
close season.
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