The Telegraph publishes something called density charts which show where people were mostly during games. It is, I assume, quite crude, but looking at them you get a bit of an idea of how the game was shaped.
The Reading game interested me firstly because McBride and Healy, who combined beautifully throughout, were very close together all game. So much so that the McBride marker is hidden beneath the Healy marker on the chart. That’s why they’re called strike partnerships.
Look at Davies and Bullard too: that almost has to be a reaction to how Reading were defending (or not defending). It gels with my memories too, Bullard, Davies, McBride, Healy, short sharp passing. Dempsey (under Andreasen above) and Murphy were, by contrast, sitting a bit deeper, which allowed them to shield a little (Dempsey’s defensive work was a nice surprise, I thought).
You’ve also got Stalteri and Konchesky almost equally forward, which, off the top of my head, we don’t see too often.
