Leam Richardson Praises Reading’s ‘Well Worked’ Goals In Blackpool Win

The Royals picked up a brilliant 3-0 victory away from home at Blackpool, our first league win at Bloomfield Road for 24 years.

Reading took the lead in the first half through Kamari Doyle. Lewis Wing doubled our lead in the second half with a penalty and then Randell Williams scored our third to secure a brilliant 3-0 win.

The win moves us six points clear of the relegation zone and we rise to 16th. Here is what manager Leam Richardson had to say, he spoke to Royals TV.

Richardson on the victory

“Credit goes to the players, I think they have been outstanding this week with the output in training and the information.

“It’s never easy to travel away, the distance that we have with the numbers we’ve got. Up to a place like this, these (Blackpool) are going well themselves, I thought we conducted ourselves very well today.

“In honesty I thought we started the game relatively slow for five/10 minutes but then I thought we were very comfortable both in possession and position today.”

Richardson on Doyle’s goal

“It was a great finish. Again it is credit to the players. We talk about possession, position and penetration etc with our mantra through the week and I thought his finishing positions were good today and he could have had a couple.

“The lead-up to the goal was excellent. To be fair the staff have been working with Daniel [Kyerewaa] very hard and putting hands on people they’ve got a roll in the team to play. Your forward players have to be destructive and I thought Daniel was excellent today.”

Richardson on our defensive performance

“I thought we were our own worst enemy for the first five/10 minutes. We didn’t get to the ball as quick as we should or win enough duels but then to be fair, half-time, we sorted a couple of things out and I thought we were excellent second half.”

Richardson on the our second goal

“You back Wingy as well don’t you. Credit goes to Daniel, very proactive, aggressive in what he does.

“That’s what we want from our wide players. We want our front four or five so to speak to score goals to get out of this league winning 90 plus goals. Everyone needs to start chipping in and take responsibility.”

Richardson on scoring a third and our subs

“It was a really well worked goal. I thought the first one was really well worked both individually and collectively as a team.

“The third one was as well. And again, there were three our four lads queuing up to score which is great. Great for Randell [Williams] to get his first goal, great for Sean Patton to get his debut, great for Andy Rinomhota, although he was telling me it is his debut, it’s about his 400th game but we’ll give him a round of applause anyway.

“I thought the lads who came on finished the game tremendously well. They took the information on as it is sometimes not easy to go into a game like that, they took the information on from the week instilled that with and without the ball.”

Richardson on the clean sheet

“I thought they deserved that. It doesn’t just go with Joel [Pereira], Derrick [Williams], Paudie [O’Connor], I’m sure they’ll say that. At the top end of the pitch, big Kelvin, he worked tirelessly hard to stay connected as a team with Kamari as well.

“Again we started our press at the top end of the pitch we took it off them quite a few times, our transition could have been a little bit better but we’ll get better at that.

“I think the clean sheet away from home, three goals for the fans because again I’m totally aware, the lads are aware it’s not easy first and foremost to travel, it takes a full weekend but the finance it takes as well. We appreciate each and every one of them coming today.”

Richardson on his start as manager

“I would have liked nine in nine but I always try to beat myself up with how we could be better, but like I said, the credit goes to the players, the staff worked hard since I’ve been in the building and we have to lift our levels and keep lifting our levels.”