Bacuna’s left feeling a bit guilty
LEANDRO BACUNA says Reading are not a club in crisis despite their 2-0 home defeat by Sheffield United.
The Royals are in the bottom three, winless in five games and without a manager following Paul Clement’s sacking.
And they did not even have a shot on target in front of their lowest crowd of the season.
Yet defender Bacuna, right, said: “It has been a weird week. I have nothing against Paul, he trained us very well. Of course you feel a bit guilty.
“I don’t think things have gone wrong, we’ve not been playing that badly at all. But we are conceding too many goals. If we score three, we concede three. We need to learn how to keep clean sheets.”
Sheffield United are up to third thanks to an 83rd-minute Billy Sharp tap-in and then Sam Baldock’s own goal three minutes later.
Chris Basham, who set up Sharp’s goal, feels he knows where Reading’s problem lies.
He said: “Once they conceded they all looked at each other and no one wanted to say anything. It looks like Reading have a bit of a blame culture.”
Derby goalkeeper Scott Carson was delighted his side kept their heads to win 1-0 against 10-man Wigan. Defender Kal Naismith was given his marching orders for fouling Harry Wilson after 15 minutes. Jack Marriott scored the winner shortly afterwards and Carson said: “There was a bit of edge to the game and a few tackles going in. When one side goes down to 10 men so early there’s always a bit of frustration among players.
“So it always adds to that and we just tried to calm our players down a bit.”
Wigan midfielder Sam Morsy claimed: “We took the game to them very early on and with 11 men there would have been only one winner.”
Manager Graham Potter admitted Swansea may lose Wayne Routledge and Nathan Dyer in the January transfer window.
The pair helped the Swans back to winning ways with a 3-2 victory at Brentford but Potter said: “In January you never know, that’s the transfer window.
“The players will want to play and if they’re not it’s only fair to be able to understand that.”
Chris Mepham’s own goal made it two after the opener from Routledge and Leroy Fer added a third, before Brentford scored through Ollie Watkins and Said Benrahma.
Brentford manager Thomas Frank said: “Today I’m calm. I know what it’s about and I know the issues.
“I have looked the boys in the eyes and I am not afraid that we cannot get out of this, not at all.”