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Wolverhampton Wanderers boss Mick McCarthy looks for positives from pre-season defeat to Reading
2-1 defeat will have done his side more good than harm, boss believes...
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28 Jul 2010 14:13:00
By Alex Richards
Wolverhampton Wanderers boss Mick McCarthy believes that the pre-season defeat to Reading could stand the Premier League side in good stead for the upcoming season.
Wolves suffered their first pre-season reverse with the 2-1 defeat at the Madejski Stadium, but McCarthy believes that the defeat may not be such a disaster.
"I never like to lose but maybe it's not a bad thing," McCarthy told the club's official website.
"If you go through the pre-season winning all your games everyone thinks you're wonderful but we know we're not now.
"I don't need a reminder of that but maybe it's a nice reminder to everyone else.
"We've had a nice pre-season ticking along and winning all our games but Reading away is not a nice easy fixture to have - just ask Liverpool [who lost at the Madejski in an FA Cup replay last season].
"It's a difficult test and they are well organised with some good players, an accomplished team who played well and deserved to win.
"They were playing against a Premier League team and it certainly motivated them and the fans love to beat a Premier League team. And remember we lost to MK Dons and Port Vale last year.
"It was quite an even game to start with but we gave a penalty away which always sets you back.
"There was some decent stuff in the game and in the second half when we made the subs if we'd got a goal soon in it could have been different.
"It's clipped our wings a little bit and in a way I'm pleased that it has.
"So while I'm smarting that we've been beat it doesn't do us any harm that we've been brought back down to earth."
Wolves suffered their first pre-season reverse with the 2-1 defeat at the Madejski Stadium, but McCarthy believes that the defeat may not be such a disaster.
"I never like to lose but maybe it's not a bad thing," McCarthy told the club's official website.
"If you go through the pre-season winning all your games everyone thinks you're wonderful but we know we're not now.
"I don't need a reminder of that but maybe it's a nice reminder to everyone else.
"We've had a nice pre-season ticking along and winning all our games but Reading away is not a nice easy fixture to have - just ask Liverpool [who lost at the Madejski in an FA Cup replay last season].
"It's a difficult test and they are well organised with some good players, an accomplished team who played well and deserved to win.
"They were playing against a Premier League team and it certainly motivated them and the fans love to beat a Premier League team. And remember we lost to MK Dons and Port Vale last year.
"It was quite an even game to start with but we gave a penalty away which always sets you back.
"There was some decent stuff in the game and in the second half when we made the subs if we'd got a goal soon in it could have been different.
"It's clipped our wings a little bit and in a way I'm pleased that it has.
"So while I'm smarting that we've been beat it doesn't do us any harm that we've been brought back down to earth."
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