Player ratings for Swansea

[handbags_harris]

Federici 6 - didn't do much wrong but had floppy finger syndrome AGAIN for their second.
Griffin 5 - struggled up against Sinclair and where was he going for the second? Harshly booked.
Harte 5 - no real impact. Can't attribute much blame to him defensively although his chronic lack of pace was ruthlessly exploited for their second.
Mills 5 - an early desperate lunge set the tone for his display. Gets marked up +1 for his goal.
Khizanishvili 4 - lost the head. Could easily have been sent off, spun too easily in the buildup to their critical second, his worst display in a Reading shirt.
Leigertwood 6 - started to dominate second half, lost his edge after 65 minutes. Average.
Karacan 8 - everywhere, desperately unlucky with the shot that hit the post, snappy at every opportunity. Good performance.
McAnuff 5 - disappointing that one of our major outlets had such an ineffective game.
Kebe 6 - had more than the beating of Monk who didn't know what the hell to do with him, backing off and backing off, but his final ball looked rusty and woeful. Ineffective ultimately.
Hunt 7 - typically hard working performance, took his goal well. Very little opportunity to make any real effect though.
Long 6 - marshalled excellently. Fluffed his lines late on first half, none of the powerful running at defenders from wide that we've come accustomed to, disappointing.

Subs

Church 5 - hardly touched the ball. Ineffective.
Robson-Kanu 5 - ditto Church.

[PEARCEY]

Federici 6 - didn't do much wrong but had floppy finger syndrome AGAIN for their second.
Griffin 5 - struggled up against Sinclair and where was he going for the second? Harshly booked.
Harte 5 - no real impact. Can't attribute much blame to him defensively although his chronic lack of pace was ruthlessly exploited for their second.
Mills 5 - an early desperate lunge set the tone for his display. Gets marked up +1 for his goal.
Khizanishvili 4 - lost the head. Could easily have been sent off, spun too easily in the buildup to their critical second, his worst display in a Reading shirt.
Leigertwood 6 - started to dominate second half, lost his edge after 65 minutes. Average.
Karacan 8 - everywhere, desperately unlucky with the shot that hit the post, snappy at every opportunity. Good performance.
McAnuff 5 - disappointing that one of our major outlets had such an ineffective game.
Kebe 6 - had more than the beating of Monk who didn't know what the hell to do with him, backing off and backing off, but his final ball looked rusty and woeful. Ineffective ultimately.
Hunt 7 - typically hard working performance, took his goal well. Very little opportunity to make any real effect though.
Long 6 - marshalled excellently. Fluffed his lines late on first half, none of the powerful running at defenders from wide that we've come accustomed to, disappointing.

Subs



Church 5 - hardly touched the ball. Ineffective.
Robson-Kanu 5 - ditto Church.

Pretty much agreed although I thought Mills was better than a 5, Karacan maybe an 8 and Griffin definitely a 4 for the ridiculous challenge leading to their second penalty.

[Bandini]

Not really sure what Federici did right tbh.

One of his kicks was quite accurate I guess.

[PEARCEY]

Not really sure what Federici did right tbh.

One of his kicks was quite accurate I guess.

He didn't have much to do tbf

[Svlad Cjelli]

It's a very mischievous thought, and it could lead to accusations of Snowballism by saying what "would have happened" - but am I the only one thinking that Alex McCarthy would probably have clung onto the cross that lead to the second?

[PEARCEY]

It's a very mischievous thought, and it could lead to accusations of Snowballism by saying what "would have happened" - but am I the only one thinking that Alex McCarthy would probably have clung onto the cross that lead to the second?

Yes he probably would have and frankly that was the only difficult "save" Feds had to make throughout the entire game. On reflection a 5 for Feds from me then.

[Bandini]

It's a very mischievous thought, and it could lead to accusations of Snowballism by saying what "would have happened" - but am I the only one thinking that Alex McCarthy would probably have clung onto the cross that lead to the second?

I don't think that's Snowballism, as what you've done is used your long experience of watching football and your recent experience of watching McCarthy and Federici to form a judgement on their relative merits, and then applied it to yesterday's game.

He might also have done better on the penalties.

Related: I'm pretty surprised that Swansea bothered to turn up yesterday following our dominance of the key 16th to 46th game period of the regular season, and also that slow full backs proved to be a liability against fast wingers.

[wolsey]

Federici 6 - didn't do much wrong but had floppy finger syndrome AGAIN for their second.
Griffin 5 - struggled up against Sinclair and where was he going for the second? Harshly booked.
Harte 5 - no real impact. Can't attribute much blame to him defensively although his chronic lack of pace was ruthlessly exploited for their second.
Mills 5 - an early desperate lunge set the tone for his display. Gets marked up +1 for his goal.
Khizanishvili 4 - lost the head. Could easily have been sent off, spun too easily in the buildup to their critical second, his worst display in a Reading shirt.
Leigertwood 6 - started to dominate second half, lost his edge after 65 minutes. Average.
Karacan 8 - everywhere, desperately unlucky with the shot that hit the post, snappy at every opportunity. Good performance.
McAnuff 5 - disappointing that one of our major outlets had such an ineffective game.
Kebe 6 - had more than the beating of Monk who didn't know what the hell to do with him, backing off and backing off, but his final ball looked rusty and woeful. Ineffective ultimately.
Hunt 7 - typically hard working performance, took his goal well. Very little opportunity to make any real effect though.
Long 6 - marshalled excellently. Fluffed his lines late on first half, none of the powerful running at defenders from wide that we've come accustomed to, disappointing.

Subs

Church 5 - hardly touched the ball. Ineffective.
Robson-Kanu 5 - ditto Church.

Agree totally with all the above.

Whilst Kebe was generally exciting in a "ooh what's he going to do next" way, I thought that he was at full stretch from almost the first minute; I was surprised that Cummings didn't start and disappointed that both Kebe and McAnuff totally failed to support their full backs in the first half. (I know that that isn't really what wingers are about but we knew where our obvious weakness was and failed to counter it. The result was that both Harte and Griffin were totally isolated and to be honest I was almost relieved that it was only 3-0 at half time)

[retro royal]

I feel a bit for khiz, he had to keep coming out of position due to the fact harte was no where near where he should of been, closing down dyer then trying to get back in position for borini, silly first yellow and a bit harsh.

[Svlad Cjelli]

I think our game plan was to attack Swansea from the start and hassle them at the back to stop them passing their way through us - that meant the wingers playing a lot more advanced than normal.

In turn, that stopped them being able to cover the full-backs as much as they usually do.

[loyalroyal4life]

Funny thing is Khiz's poor performance prob helps him sign for us now.

Guess yesterday showed just why he maybe can be seen as not being able to cut it in the prem or on the big stage!

[Ian Royal]

It's a very mischievous thought, and it could lead to accusations of Snowballism by saying what "would have happened" - but am I the only one thinking that Alex McCarthy would probably have clung onto the cross that lead to the second?

I doubt Alex would have kept hold of it, but I would not be at all surprised if he'd have got a better hand on it, if only because his positioning seems to be so much better than Feds.

[Ian Royal]

It's a very mischievous thought, and it could lead to accusations of Snowballism by saying what "would have happened" - but am I the only one thinking that Alex McCarthy would probably have clung onto the cross that lead to the second?

Not sure he'd have held it, but I'd say it's a good chance he'd have got a better hand to it, even if just through better positioning.

The third, yet another example of us failing to track runners into our box to win secondary ball and score goals. For all we have a strong defensive central midfield, we are piss poor at tracking runners, we so regularly give at least one person three or four yards of space in the box to get to an attack late.

[Svlad Cjelli]

It's a very mischievous thought, and it could lead to accusations of Snowballism by saying what "would have happened" - but am I the only one thinking that Alex McCarthy would probably have clung onto the cross that lead to the second?

Not sure he'd have held it, but I'd say it's a good chance he'd have got a better hand to it, even if just through better positioning.

The third, yet another example of us failing to track runners into our box to win secondary ball and score goals. For all we have a strong defensive central midfield, we are piss poor at tracking runners, we so regularly give at least one person three or four yards of space in the box to get to an attack late.

Let's not forget the clearance that went straight to Dobbie on the edge of the area. If you're going clear the lines, but you bloody foot through it - don't just daintily dab it out 10 yards.

[Scarface]

We needed a super human effort and a bit of luck to win that, unfortunately we got neither and actually made some individual errors leading to all goals. Basically it couldn't of got much worse in the first half!! Some players were well below recent standards, maybe it was the occasion but the likes of Federici, Griffin, Harte, Zurab, Kebe, Long and Legs were all very poor.

I thought Mills, Jobi, Hunt and MOM Jem all performed well.

McDermott showed his naivety picking Cummings instead of Manset, just because he played well at Cardiff.

[Optimist]

Feds - 4
Griffin - 4
Mills - 7
Zurab - 5
Harte - 5
McAnuff - 8
Legs - 5
Jem - 7
Kebe - 8
Hunt - 6
Long - 4

WUMs on here - dicks

Flummoxed how you can give Mcanuff 8?????? 10 minute cameo where he took two corners that resulted in goals ...if you watched Messi on sat night, thats what I call an assist...not a punt and hope from the corner flag !!!

Well looking at the whole 90 mins, his work rate was exceptional, he beat players down the wing with both skill and pace on numerous occasions, some of his passes down the sideline for Long and Hunt to run onto were inch perfect, and looking at the movement of those in the box those corners were both well worked set-peices, not hopeful punts imo.

[Svlad Cjelli]

But collectively we showed the same sort o lac of mental discipline that we've shown a couple of times this season.

For about 15-20 minutes we were more concerned about the referee's decisions than we were about doing the basics right in the game, and we were punished as a result.

If we'd kept out heads and got on with the game more - instead of feeling sorry for ourselves and pissed off at the decisions - then I'm sure we'd have made a lot fewer basic errors than we did yesterday - and it would have been a very different game.

[Maguire]

A-Fed 4
Griffin 4
Mills 8
Kish 3
Harte 4
McAnuff 6
Karacan 8
Leigertwood 6
Kebe 7
Long 5
Hunt 6

I think this is there or thereabouts . Mills and Karacan best players. The rest of the back four, the keeper, and Long all failed to show up.

[KC Royal]

Fed 5.5 - Couldn't fault him for most of the goals but thought he could done better for the 2nd one. Pushed it away to Sinclair when if he hadn't then Griffin may well have cleared it away.
Griffin 6 - Was having a decent game for me until his unnecessary challenge for the 2nd pen.
Mills 7 - Coped ok with the Swansea attack and also scored with a good header.
Zurab 4.5 - Saved his worst performance for what will almost certainly be his final game (the club have said they expect him to leave now his season's loan has expired, which was probably inevitable if we didn't go up). Conceded the pen, knocked it away for Dobbie to score the 3rd, and having picked up a yellow card for shoving Borini to the floor (after Borini had fouled Fed)was lucky not to be sent off for the pen. But he was decent enough in the 2nd half.
Harte 5 - Brutally exposed for his lack of pace for the 2nd goal despite being 5 yards in front of Dobbie.
Kebe 7 - Despite seeing a lot of the ball in the 1st half don't think he was particularly productive with it, the lack of match practice after 6 weeks out seemed to show, but he stepped it up 2nd half beating players charging through the middle.
Karacan 8 - Good passing and got his foot when needed, it was his ball that led to Long's sitter and he was unlucky not to score with the shot that hit the post.
Leigertwood 7 - Decent enough, particularly 2nd half. Good tackling, got shots away
McAnuff 7 - Disappointed in the 1st half but his 2 corners set up the 2 goals.
Long 5 - One of the rare poor performances i've seen from him this season. Struggled to get in the game 1st half and missed that sitter, but did improve 2nd half.
Hunt 6 - Thought he was poor 1st half but improved in the 2nd. Had the goalbound shot that was blocked after Karacan's shot had come off the post, and also his flick on led to the og.

Subs Church (for Hunt 76) 5 - Hardly noticed him
Robson-Kanu (for Griffin 84) N/A