Mark Bonner lauded his Cambridge facet’s show after they noticed off Studying.
The U’s responded to a disappointing loss at Leyton Orient to beat the Royals 1-0 courtesy of Fejiri Okenabirhie’s strike seven minutes from the top.
Cambridge climbed again into the highest six of League One, whereas Studying are but to choose up a degree away from residence this season.
“I believed it was an excellent recreation,” Bonner mentioned afterwards.
“Each groups had good probabilities, each groups have been attempting to win the sport. There was drama all through the sport, and within the ending clearly they might have gotten one thing from it, however I believed our efficiency degree was good.
“I preferred the intent that we began with. It was an excellent probability early on, I’m stunned we didn’t rating early within the recreation, so it was there for us, however I’m delighted with the sport that we performed.
“We gave our subs the possibility to return on and win the sport, which is essential. We’ve bought to be sure that once we make these modifications we’re in a recreation that offers them an opportunity of profitable it for us.
“There was heaps to love about us tonight, it was far more us. I believe 5 out of six video games we’ve been an excellent facet this 12 months.
“I really like within the thirtieth minute how we defended our field, wonderful. Everyone chucking their physique in the way in which to dam issues, that’s us at our greatest. You’ve bought to provide all the things. (It’s) a bit rock and roll typically, not all the time good, however that’s what we need to see. I actually preferred the intent in our recreation tonight.”
Ruben Selles expressed his disappointment at Studying’s show, saying: “The thought is that our efficiency was not adequate.
“We had a plan of how you can come right here and attempt to win the sport. We have been attempting to get a tempo of the sport and we didn’t. We tried totally different variations, and we had an opponent that closed all of the areas and performed the sport rather well.
“I’m upset with the outcome, I’m upset with the efficiency.
“We had probabilities within the recreation to attain targets. I believe we created sufficient to at the very least rating one aim. We must be extra ruthless, we must be extra nasty.
“We have to know how you can play our personal recreation, and we have to know how you can management the sport as a crew. Right now, for some intervals of the sport we weren’t with that management.
“We all know the crew we need to be. There are some optimistic issues in what we do however on the finish of the day we have to win soccer matches.”
