The Royals’ good home form came to an end after a 2-1 defeat to Peterborough United at the SCL Stadium on Tuesday night.
Jimmy-Jay Morgan gave the visitors the lead in the second minute. Kelvin Ehibhatiomhan equalised just after the hour mark before Posh scored the winner to secure all three points.
The defeat leaves us three points off the relegation zone in 19th. Manager Leam Richardson felt his team lost the game in the first five minutes. Here is what he had to say, he spoke to the Peterborough
Telegraph.
Richardson on the defeat
“First and foremost, you have to be gracious. We win together, we lose together, and congratulations to Peterborough.
“My initial thoughts are that I’m very disappointed, to say the least, in how we started the game. In my opinion, we lost the game in the first few minutes. We were at home and we wanted to start fast. We wanted to take the impetus and build on our away win last time out.
“If you want to go for promotion, you have to back up an away win with a home win. We had an opportunity to do that tonight. It sounds simple on paper but that was the challenge.
“We were ahead in the stats. On everything: with chances, shots, touches in their box, final-third entries.
“But we lost out on the one that counts and which everyone points the finger at straightaway. I thought that we got emotionally attached to the game in the second half, perhaps doing the wrong things for the right reasons – chasing the game a little bit.
“But we’ll get better as we evolve.”
