Reading's unbeaten home run in 2024 was ended by Shrewsbury Town, matching their win in Shropshire by winning 3-2 in Berkshire.
Take a look at some immediate reaction from manager Ruben Selles.
"It is frustrating," he started. "It was a very uncharacteristic way to start for my team, I don’t think we have seen that from the team in a long long time. We just need to fight back the disappointment from the first six minutes, conceding two goals and being nowhere in any action. It is not about the goal; it is about the way we manage those moments.
"After that we showed the team, we are, we scored two goals- Sam scored immediately and we equalised through Kelvin and were trying to build it up. in a goal from 25 metres in a corner we concede immediately before half-time. The second half we did the game we want to do; we created situations and should have put the ball in the back of the net but we didn’t. At the end it is very disappointing because of the first six minutes, and it cannot happen."
Reading recovered from two goals behind inside six minutes to be level at 2-2 heading into first-half stoppage time, before conceding in the final seconds and heading into the break behind.
"It's always difficult," the Spaniard commented on conceding before the break. "But if we manage to score one of the situations in the second half- because I don’t think they have a shot or very few in the second half- we can turn it around, but we didn’t. We have been on a good run in the last three or four months and one day this will arrive, and it arrived today. We need to analyse why we started slow, what happened and try not to repeat it in the future.
"I would always like more shots and more shots on target, but we created enough to score at least one goal."
Reading travel to bottom side Carlisle United on Saturday.
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