CHAMBERS: ‘RESULT FEELS LIKE A LOSS’
READING Women manager Kelly Chambers said the Royals’ draw ‘felt like a loss’ after they conceded an injury-time equaliser against Aston Villa.
“I’m really disappointed. Disappointed in terms of not coming away from a game thatwe looked really comfortable in, with anything to showfor it other than a point,” said Chambers.
“I feel we had lost the game in front of goal. We had so many opportunities to put the game to bed and unfortunately I feel that’s what cost us dearly.
Reading had 24 shots at goal, with nine on target, compared to just two from
The offside lawis often controversial but this showed the hosts, butwere unable to to Villa and not getting the its complexity. find a clinical edge to take win. City’s Rodrigowas in an offside three points. “We should have been position about 15 yards behind
“Therewere times in the taking three points in games Villa’s Tyrone Mings. second-halfwherewewere like that if we can perform Mings stopped the pass to him, very comfortable, butwe against Arsenal and City, and chesting the ball down. weren’t ruthless enough,” thatwas a huge frustration Hewas bringing it under Chambers continued. to the girls after the game. control. when Rodrigo came back
“We had two one-on-ones “Unfortunately, it has been and dispossessed him, then passed against the goalkeeper and the story of our season so far the ball to Silvawho scored. made nothing out of it, so thatwe are just not good There are two views of this that side of it is very enough in front of goal and incident, so let’s look at the frustrating. that is what has cost us relevant parts of the offside
law.“Thesecondhalfshouldn’tgames.” even come into contention if Reading have a one-week First it says, it is not an offence we’d put the first-half to bed break from action having to be in an offside position. and I believe that is the one played the most games by A player in an offside position thing that really cost us. some distance in the division is only penalisedwhen interfering
“I said to the girls after the so far this campaign. with play by playing or touching game thatwewent from a Chambers’ team have a the ball, or interferingwith huge high, taking points off stern testwhen they return an opponent by preventing Arsenalwho are one of the on Sunday, February 7when him from playing the ball best teams in the league and they face Manchester United or being able to play the ball, we did the same against Women, who currently lead or by challenging an opponent Manchester City, to coming theWomen’s Super League,. for the ball.