We showed our intent from the off, says Reading assistant Gibbs
Posted Sunday, September 23, 2018 by PA
Assistant manager Nigel Gibbs praised the Reading players for their intensity after they picked up their first home points in the Championship this season with a 3-0 win over Hull.
Reading went ahead in the fourth minute when Sam Baldock pounced from close range after a Leandro Bacuna corner.
Hull offered little going forward and conceded twice more in the last 20 minutes.
Jon Dadi Bodvarsson tucked in his fifth goal of the campaign and defender Andy Yiadom added his first goal for the club.
Home centre-back John O’Shea was sent off near the end for a last-man foul on Chris Martin, but Reading still eased to only their second victory of the season.
Gibbs, assistant to manager Paul Clement, said: “We started the game really well and you could see our intensity from the first minute.
“The intent was there to really go after Hull and the early goal settled us down as well. We deserved to go into the lead.
“We made some changes to the team to freshen it up and bring some fresh legs in.
“The players all performed very well and I thought that they thoroughly deserved their victory.
“We started the game really well, with the early goal, and the second goal came at a really good time for us.
“Hull were just getting back into the game, to be honest, but from then on we were able to see the game out.
“Three goals at home, our first clean sheet in the league – and the home victory has been a long time coming.
“It’s been a good day for us and that’s something to build on now.
“It’s been a frustrating time for all of us. We’ve been working hard in training to get the right results. We’ve lost so many games by the odd goal.
“That clean sheet was one of the most important things. We’ve been working really hard for that.
“It gives everyone so much confidence.
“Now we can look forward to a really good week’s training and then another tough game away from home at Brentford.
“Our away form has not been too bad and we need to follow up this win with another good performance.”
Nigel Adkins, the Hull head coach and former Reading manager, said: “We were very poor in the first half-hour in particular.
“We came here with a positive mind set but we’ve conceded very early in the game from a corner. That gave Reading a big uplift.
“For that first half-hour, we were second best all across the pitch.
“Reading won every first ball, second ball and we were a yard off everybody.
“Towards the end of the first half we got back into it. And we started the game better in the first 20 minutes of the second half.
“We passed the ball better and we were probably in the ascendancy.
“But the second goal that we conceded, that was probably Reading’s first foray into our penalty area in the second half.
“We’ve got four or five players in there who should have tackled the player who scored.
“That’s then given the ascendancy back to Reading again.
“We’ve just got to go away and analyse it all. Then we’ve got to go again.”
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