Juande Ramos expressed his delight after we overcame Reading 1-0 in Tuesday night's FA Cup 3rd Round replay. Robbie Keane's smart finish in the 15th minute - his 99th goal for us - was enough to book a 4th Round trip to Manchester United on January 27. Adam Federici produced fines saves to deny Jermain Defoe and Steed Malbranque - the Frenchman's effort cannoned back off the crossbar - while the home side came closest in the 81st minute when Stephen Hunt's dipping volley struck the frame of the goal. The only concern was seeing Younes Kaboul limp off late on with an ankle injury but coach Gus Poyet indicated later that it wasn't expected to be too serious. "The most important thing was to get through the tie," said Head Coach Juande at the Madejski Stadium. "We managed to come through the game without conceding a goal and we had to make quite an effort to overcome Reading. "I was very happy with the performance. Conditions were difficult, the pitch was heavy and we also had very little time to recover after the Chelsea game - there were a few players out there feeling tired and carrying knocks." Steve Coppell had earlier said we were capable of winning the competition and that point was put to Juande. "We'll try to!" he smiled. "The next tie will be difficult, we go to Manchester United but we'll try our very hardest to go and win that game. "We have a league game against Sunderland and the Carling Cup semi-final to think about first though." ============================================================================== Ramos很高興贏球 Keano在第十五分鐘的時候很聰明的打進他個人熱刺九十九球 之後Steed,特務都有很好的機會 不過都被Federici撲出 八十一分鐘的時候替補上來的Hunt驚險擊中球門 另人在意的是Kaboul又在比賽中受傷 不過Gus表示不嚴重 Ramos說: " 最重要的是晉級 我們晉級而且沒有失球 我們下了相當大的努力克服雷丁 " " 我對球隊的表現很滿意 整個處境很艱困 從上一場聯賽到現在我們沒有很長恢復時間 我們有一些球員感到疲憊 " 雷丁主帥Coppell服輸 他認為我們可以在盃賽有好的表現 他相信我們能在老特拉福取勝 他也說我們的球員都很有速度,個人能力也很棒 不過他認為他們應該可以進球 對下一輪Ramos說我們會盡最大的努力 但是現在要考慮的是聯賽和聯賽盃 -- Coppell好有風度 對他非常尊敬!! -- Audere est Facere --

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