Boss Roy Keane felt his side didn’t do enough to win but probably deserved a draw from the 1-0 defeat at Reading. The Town manager had no complaints regarding Luke Hyam’s sending off for a second bookable offence.

Keane said: “I’m not sure we deserved to win and I’ve been in enough games where it’s nip and tuck with five or 10 minutes to go and the home side usually seem to nick it, and that’s what happened tonight.

“The first goal was vital tonight. Jason had a great chance in the first half. I thought we didn’t play too badly, but if you don’t score goals you put yourself under pressure.

“Again, no goals tonight. We only got the one on Saturday and we’ve had chances, some good chances, the same on Saturday. So, from these two away games, instead of being disappointed with four points, we end up with one.

“We should have won on Saturday and we probably should have got a point tonight. The goal came from a set piece when we should have done better, we were a bit slow getting out. Disappointing. We need to do better.”

Keane had no complaints regarding Luke Hyam’s red card: “I think it was coming and I should have taken him off at half-time.”

Reading manager Brian McDermott was pleased with the way his team kept pushing to the end: “It’s a real testament to the desire and the will of the players that they keep going. We had a good shape to us tonight.

“It was a decent game between two good sides and we’re fortunate to come out on top with the win.

“If you keep going and you’re trying to win it at 0-0 anything can happen. That’s really important to me. There’s a big difference between one point and three points. If you play like that sometimes you might lose a game, but I’ll accept that.”

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