Plymouth Argyle Takes 3-1 Lead in Match Against Reading!
Randell Williams and Paudie O’Connor were on the scoresheet, but the Royals were pegged back twice by the visitors.
Today we were treated to something unfamiliar by this season’s standards: a good performance that wasn’t matched by a win. Much of the Leam Richardson era has been the other way around – Reading digging out results despite putting in an unconvincing display – but for once, the Royals deserved more than they got. Probably.
Naturally that’ll lead to the good old ‘glass half full/glass half empty’ split in opinion. Should we be positive or negative about this game? I’m coming down very much in the former camp.
First and foremost, this was a good point. If you’d run a poll of Reading fans before the game – “would you take a 2-2 draw out of this match? ” – there’d surely have been a majority for yes.
After all, Plymouth Argyle had been on good form of late and are particularly strong on the road – one of the best sides in the division in this regard, in fact. “On days like this, it’s hard to not cast your mind to the injured Jack Marriott” Sure, Reading had chances to win the game and led twice, but it was a competitive contest throughout – one which Plymouth were more than capable of nicking. And anyway, we’ve all seen the Royals blow a fuse in matches such as this one, either capitulating after conceding or somehow shipping a late goal.
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