Reading manager Ruben Selles praised the goal prowess of Lewis Wing as the midfielder scored twice from distance during the comfortable 3-0 League One victory over struggling Cambridge.
Cambridge goalkeeper Vicente Reyes kept the visitors in the hunt with a string of fine first-half saves, but the Royals struck three times in 15 minutes after the break, with Wing’s impressive brace coming either side of a Mamadi Camara effort.
“Yeah, Lewis’ goals were pretty special, especially the second one,” Selles said.
“We know that if someone is going to score that kind of goal, it’s going to be Lewis Wing.
“We know what kind of striker (of the ball) he can be so that’s why we work to put him in those positions where he can deliver.
“Mamadi Camara’s score was very good as well. His finish and calmness in front of the goal. I’m really happy for him.”
Reading sit sixth in the table after a seventh victory in eight home league games this season.
“The first half was an equal game,” Selles said. “We had a good chance to score through Sam Smith in a one-on-one situation but didn’t take it.
“We talked about it at half-time that it was just about finding the right moment to score the first goal.
“Once we’d got that, and Cambridge began to move more forward, then we had more space to score the second one.
“That happened pretty quickly and I think that the team performed very well.”
Cambridge are five points from safety in League One.
And United head coach Garry Monk said: “It was a hugely disappointing result.
“I felt that we had some really good situations in the first half and were well in the game.
“But we needed to make much of those situations that we created. It was just that final decision or that final lack of composure.
“And then, in the second half, that was a hugely disappointing first 20 minutes, which cost us dearly.
“Before you know it, we’re three goals down.
“I know the third one was a fantastic finish but the first two were so avoidable.
“That’s stuff that, more often than not over this period, that we have been doing quite well.
“We didn’t see all that coming in the game. It was all a bit strange after the first half, when I thought that we were competing well.
“Overall, in this period of the last 10 games, we’ve been making good starts in games.
“Again, though, it’s a case of making better use of those opportunities. We had loads of them tonight where we could have made the final cross or the final pass or even the final shot.
“We could have done a lot more.”
